Gillian O'Hanlon BL

Northern Ireland’s Crown Court last week jailed a paedophile who admitted to coercing and ‘catfishing’ children online and sexually abusing a woman suffering with intellectual disability and severe autism. Delivering judgment for the Crown Court, His Honour Judge Geoffrey Miller KC

The High Court has awarded costs against an unsuccessful applicant who refused to withdraw her judicial review proceedings following judgment in the original test case of Bogusas v Minister for Health [2022] IEHC 621. Delivering judgment for the High Court, Mr Justice Garrett Simons observed: &ldquo

The High Court has dismissed the claim of a woman who alleged that she suffered a right shoulder injury following a 2016 road traffic accident, in circumstances where the medical evidence did not support her claim and where the court had regard to her failure to call her treating GPs and the GP whos

The High Court has suspended a solicitor following an application by the Law Society in respect of findings of misconduct against him. Delivering judgment for the High Court, Mr Justice Micheál P. O’Higgins warned that “it is plainly unacceptable that a solicitor would plead guilt

The High Court has upheld a decision of the Medical Council refusing registration of a doctor who had been struck off the register of doctors in the UK. Delivering judgment for the High Court, Mr Justice Micheál P. O’Higgins considered: “The court’s task in this appeal is to

The High Court has accepted an undertaking on behalf of the CEO of the Mater hospital on foot of the hospital’s breach of court orders detaining a woman suffering with an eating disorder. Delivering judgment for the High Court, Mr Justice David Nolan emphasised: “The purpose of this judg

The High Court has determined that the subsequent ratification by ACC Bank plc of a receiver’s appointment several years after he conducted a receivership was valid, but that the receiver in taking possession of the subject shop had unlawfully trespassed by breaking the locks to gain entry the

The High Court has refused summary judgment where the plaintiff’s documentary evidence did not mention that the defendant guarantor consented to an automatic assignment of a loan and did not refer to the assignment of his guarantee. Delivering judgment for the High Court in November, Mr Justic

The Supreme Court has determined that where the time period for bringing judicial review proceedings under s.50(6) of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) expires on a day that the Central Office is closed, the time limit is extended to the next day on which the court offices are open.

Northern Ireland's High Court has determined that a decision of the Solicitors' Disciplinary Tribunal should be reversed and that a penalty of admonishment should be applied in respect of a solicitor. Delivering judgment in November, Lady Chief Justice Siobhan Keegan opined that to the respondent's

The Court of Appeal has determined that once a complaint is made to the Workplace Relations Commission, it operates as a complete bar to seeking redress in tort under s.13(1) of the Protected Disclosures Act 2014. Delivering judgment for the Court of Appeal, Ms Justice Niamh Hyland confirmed: &

The High Court has stayed part of a claim against the Attorney General arising from a receiver sale dispute in circumstances where the plaintiffs claimed that improper safeguards of the plaintiffs’ constitutional rights were in place. Delivering judgment for the High Court in November, Mr Just

The High Court has made an order pursuant to the Adoption Act 2010 authorising the adoption of a teenage girl by her foster parent despite opposition from her birth parents. Delivering judgment for the High Court in November, Ms Justice Nuala Jackson reasoned that “while I appreciate that ther

The High Court has granted orders recognising a decree of nullity granted in the United States for the first time. Delivering judgment for the High Court in October, Mr Justice John Jordan highlighted: “There is no known judgment of the Superior Courts concerning an application for a declarati

The Court of Appeal has allowed an appeal against a finding of invalidity of a drug patent, noting that in the High Court’s 900+ page judgment the trial judge failed to "a very large extent" to make essential findings of fact. Delivering judgment for the Court of Appeal, Ms Justice Caroline Co