High Court finds that the Defendants have no estate, right, title or interest in two properties owned by the Plaintiff following assignment, and grants an injunction restraining the Defendants from trespassing or entering onto the said properties.
High Court - Summary judgment - bankruptcy - injunctions - an application by the Plaintiff seeking declaratory relief as to the title of the Defendants of two properties assigned to them - seeking permanent injunctions restraining the Defendants from entering onto or interfering with the properties - plaintiff alleging that the defendants broke into properties owned by them and conducted a campaign of false and defamatory statements against the plaintiff's agents in pursuit of intimidation - alleges that the defendants caused damage to the properties and misappropriated monies - In 2005 the first defendant accepted a loan offer for the purpose of acquiring eight residential properties - the loan was secured on the eight properties - a deed of mortgage and charge was executed over the Blackacre property on 6th January 2006 and a deed of mortgage and charge over Whiteacre on 10th January 2006 - order for possession of properties in October 2009 in favour of EBS - reciever appointed in May 2010 - Judgment marked in the Central office against the first defendant in September 2013 - the first defendant's loan and security were transferred to Beltany Property Finance dac on 30 June 2017 - proceedings brought against the defendants by the receiver in 2014 and an order restraining the defendants from interfering with the properties was granted in May 2015 - appeals dismissed by the Court of Appeal - orders not complied with and first defendant was attached and second defendant committed - second defendant's appeal was dismissed by Court of Appeal - second defendant purged her contempt - first defendant adjudicated bankrupt in April 2017 and discharged in April 2018 - Blackacre and Whiteacre sold to the plaintiff on 10 September 2018 and entered possession on 11 September 2018 - In December 2018 the site at Blackacre was broken into and locks changed, group removed by Gardaí - the first defendant led a group to break into Whiteacre on the same day - on 28 January 2019 the first defendant broke into the property at Blackacre again and second defendant joined - the first defendant could not be removed by gardaí - interim and interlocutory orders granted restraining the defendants from trespassing and interfering with the properties - defence claims the plaintiff is not the full legal and beneficial owner of the properties and that the first defendant is - application for summary judgment other than liquidated damages - inherent jurisdiction of court - Defendants raise multiple defences - bankruptcy did not extinguish the first defendants loan facilities - failure by EBS to disclose facilities transferred to Beltany did not entitle the defendant to remain legal and beneficial owner of properties or invalidate the transfer - the defendant had no equitable interest in the property nor did estoppel arise - no evidence that defendants would have purchased the properties or would have been accepted - estoppel does not arise by virtue of a naming of an asking price - statutory of power of sale does not require seller to be mortgagee in possession - no issues arising in relation to the formalities of the conveyance and assignment - the first defendant had no interest in the properties and therefore no interest to communicate with agents of servants of the plaintiff - Order 19 Rule 28 - striking out the counterclaim on the grounds same discloses no reasonable cause of action and is bound to fail, frivolous and vexatious and an abuse of process - counterclaim is a repeat of the defence raised - seeks declaratory relief that they are the legal and beneficial owners of the properties - no substance in the claim for breach of privacy in the plaintiff exhibiting an unredacted judgment of the court - no arguable defence raised - declaration that they, nor do either of them, have any estate, right, title or interest in either properties - permanent injunction restraining them and their servants or agents from trespassing or entering upon or interfering with the properties - counterclaim dismissed for disclosing no reasonable cause of action.