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Dentons bolsters offices across Australasia Dentons bolsters offices across Australasia 22 June 2021 • By Lauren Croft Share Dentons has announced the addition of a new partner as well as the promotion of over a dozen staff across offices in Australia and Papua New Guinea. The international law firm has bolstered its partner ranks and welcomed Andrew Shearwood, who joins as a corporate partner in Denton’s Perth office. Mr Shearwood has over 40 years of legal experience and specialises in corporate and commercial law. Mr Shearwood will strengthen the firm’s client offering in Western Au...

  Dublin City Council wants the High Court to overturn An Bord Pleanála’s rejection of the council’s proposals for what the board described as “minimal” height increases for some tower blocks on a strategic site in Dublin’s Docklands. The board rejected the proposed amendments to the 2014 North Lotts/Grand Canal Docks Special Development Zone planning scheme last March for reasons including that they allowed for “minimal” height increases, would mean just 225 additional residential units on 2,600 envisaged under the scheme and that options for greater ho...

High Court again overturns permission for 657 apartments in north Dublin Judgement is latest setback for controversial development proposal about 11 hours ago   The High Court has overturned a fresh planning permission for a controversial development of 657 dwellings on lands near St Anne’s Park in Raheny. The proposed development has so far clocked up four decisions by An Bord Pleanála and ten sets of legal proceedings “and counting”, Mr Justice Richard Humphreys noted. In a judgment on Friday, he quashed the board’s third permission, dated August 2020, for the proposed developmen...

Updated / Monday, 15 Mar 2021 18:09 Members of Cork County Council made variations to the development plan in 2020 Cork County Council has brought a High Court challenge against the Minister for Local Government and the State over a direction that the local authority removes a variation it made to its county development plan. The council's elected members made variations to the Cork County Development Plan (2014) including one regarding retail planning strategy in January 2020, after they had considered a detail report on the issue. The variation was made after the council was satisfied that...

DUBLIN City Council has been ordered by the High Court to halt moves to begin work next Monday to open a new two-lane cycle way on Strand Road/Beach Road in Sandymount. The council had opposed a stay sought on the works following a challenge brought earlier this week by a local resident and a councillor. Mr Justice Charles Meenan ruled on Friday the risk of greater injustice lay in not granting a stay on the council's works pending determination of the full challenge. Peter Carvill and Dublin City councillor Mannix Flynn were given leave to challenge the council's scheme on grounds including ...