The legal battle over the Gorse Hill mansion in Killiney, South Dublin, will continue well into next week.

It is after solicitor Brian O’Donnell - who is appealing a High Court trespass order - challenged the validity of documents appointing the receiver Tom Kavanagh to the property.

Mr O’Donnell says the Bank of Ireland employee who signed the papers did not have the authority to do so.

The matter will return to the Court of Appeal on Tuesday at two pm, with a judgment later in the week.

Read updates from today in court, as they happened, via the live blog below:

Yesterday Mr O’Donnell argued that he has a contractual right to stay at the Gorse Hill mansion and that the Bank has used ‘brutal tactics’ against him.

Both Brian O’Donnell and Mary Patricia O’Donnell appeared before the Court of Appeal, with Ms Justice Mary Finlay Geoghegan telling the solicitor’s wife that she must be aware there are consequences if their appeal against the trespass order fails.

Brian O’Donnell set out his argument against the order in court, saying he has a contractual right to live at the house and that the Bank of Ireland has pursued ‘brutal tactics’ in the courts.

He told the court that he and his wife’s borrowings are not from BOI but from Bank of Ireland private banking - which he says is a separate entity.

He says the notion that he and his wife were barricaded inside Gorse Hill is not true and that invitees could come and go. Mr O’Donnell said that there were no tanks on the lawn.

Mr O’Donnell has also highlighted the media spotlight on the case - and says there were three satellite trucks and 64 reporters outside the house when legal papers were nailed to the gate.