The First Hall of the Civil Court dismissed a buyer's claim to rescind the sale of a kitchen because he sued more than six months after the defect appeared and kept using the kitchen instead of depositing it in court. It matters to buyers and sellers of movables.
The Constitutional Court held on 11 May 2026 that owners whose land was expropriated in the 1960s and paid for only in 2021 must also receive pecuniary damages, built on the 1965 value indexed for inflation with interest. It awarded €217,039.
The Court of Criminal Appeal held that a continuing failure to pay maintenance can carry up to three months' imprisonment, but replaced P.A.'s prison term with a €150 fine once the arrears were paid. It matters in every maintenance prosecution.
The Family Section dissolved a marriage of more than 50 years for the husband's excesses, threats and grave injuries and gave the wife the flat, half his pension and €135,000. It matters to spouses whose home was bought with one side's inherited money.
The Court of Appeal held that a tenant whose temporary emphyteusis became a lease must pay to restore a façade damaged by her own lack of ordinary maintenance, and that a Rent Regulation Board appeal lies on law only.
The Constitutional Court held on 4 May 2026 that the 2% rent ceiling for former emphyteutic homes strikes a fair balance, and added €16,000 for the months before a court-set increase took effect. It matters to owners with protected tenants.
The Criminal Court dismissed H.Z.'s pleas against a homicide indictment, holding that intent is for the jurors and that an accomplice's evidence after a plea bargain is admissible. Fair-hearing complaints belong before the constitutional courts.
The Industrial Tribunal declared all of a former employee's claims time-barred under article 75(3) of Chapter 452, because she filed more than four months after her employment ended. It matters to anyone preparing a tribunal claim.
The First Hall of the Civil Court ordered a birth act corrected to the full names a woman had always used, on documents alone, but only for acts in the Director's power. It matters to anyone whose official records carry a name they never used.
The Court of Appeal ordered a rural tenant off a field after finding it was used for leisure and hunting rather than farmed. It matters to landlords and tenants under the Agricultural Leases (Reletting) Act.
The Court of Appeal held that the Environment and Planning Review Tribunal wrongly made objectors prove a breach of site coverage rules, but dismissed their appeal because the permit rested on other findings. It matters to anyone appealing a planning permit.
The Court of Appeal held that a house sold as bordering the street did not carry the airspace over the seller's garage ramp, because the deed did not say so and reserved no access. It matters to notaries and owners of layered property.