How to find information relating to a case

thiswillwork

This is a bit of a newbie question but I've searched the usual places like BAILII and I've been unable to find what I am looking for.

I'm trying to find information relating to a case which was allegedly won in 2014 involving the ESB. The case related to an injunction to stop residential building works on a piece of land in County Cork. It was allegedly going on for a number years (7-8), but I cannot find any information relating to either the case or the outcome.

Could anyone offer any advice as to how I might find it?

MarkAnthony

Have you tired courts.ie?

Do you know if the case in concluded? (Is there an appeal?)

Do you know what court it was in?

thiswillwork

MarkAnthony wrote: »

Have you tired courts.ie?

Do you know if the case in concluded? (Is there an appeal?)

Do you know what court it was in?

Will check that out.
As far as I know it is concluded following a couple of appeals.

thiswillwork

Couldn't find anything on Courts.ie, tried both Dublin and Cork with "ESB" as plaintiff and as defendant, no joy.

Any other suggestions?

hullaballoo

http://courts.ie/courts.ie/library3.nsf/(GlobalSearch)?Openagent&SearchTerm=esb&Scope=JUDGMENTS&l=en&id=880


That's the result from searching the judgment section for ESB.

thiswillwork

Thanks, nothing there.
I'm starting to think the case never existed in the first place.

hullaballoo

thiswillwork wrote: »

Thanks, nothing there.
I'm starting to think the case never existed in the first place.

Not all cases have written judgments so it could be that while there was an order, there was nothing worthy of writing a lengthy judgment.

The other option for you is to use the High Court Search function but knowing so little about the case won't make that easy and the amount of information will hardly be worth the effort.

billy few mates

hullaballoo wrote: »

http://courts.ie/courts.ie/library3.nsf/(GlobalSearch)?Openagent&SearchTerm=esb&Scope=JUDGMENTS&l=en&id=880


That's the result from searching the judgment section for ESB.

Does every case get listed on there or how far in the proceedings do you have to go to get listed?

conorh91

The Killross case, on the top of hullaballoo's link, is very similar to what you have described. Note that it makes reference to two other sets of related proceedings which are not dealt with in the judgment.

Kilross applied for an interlocutory injunction restraining the ESB from carrying out works in August 2013. However, that was a case involving lands in Kildare, not Cork.

Perhaps the Plaintiff in the OP's case was merely granted interlocutory relief, pending a full hearing which, for whatever reason, never went ahead.

thiswillwork

Possibly, a lot of that terminology is over my head, but I'll have a read through it.
The case involved a land owner allegedly attempting to build a house directly under power lines. The ESB took legal action to halt the building works.
Whether the land owner took subsequent action against the ESB or vice versa I am not sure, but from what I've heard they either won damages, or it was settled out of court for a substantial sum of money (in favour of the landowner). The case supposedly took years to resolve, which is why I was guessing there were appeals involved.

Even if it was finally settled out of court, wouldn't there be a record of the case and or the appeals somewhere? The sums of money are in the hundreds of thousands of euro.

conorh91

thiswillwork wrote: »

Even if it was finally settled out of court, wouldn't there be a record of the case and or the appeals somewhere? The sums of money are in the hundreds of thousands of euro.

If the matter was settled, then presuming it advanced sufficiently, there will be a record of basics like case details and filings. But not a judgment.

thiswillwork

conorh91 wrote: »

If the matter was settled, then presuming it advanced sufficiently, there will be a record of basics like case details and filings. But not a judgment.

Thanks, will keep digging then.