Case Reports

The Court of Appeal has upheld the High Court’s refusal to overturn a decision demoting a senior legal researcher to her former grade. Delivering judgment for the Court of Appeal, Ms Justice Niamh Hyland was satisfied that the secretary general “was entitled to proceed on the entirety of

Northern Ireland’s Crown Court has acquitted a man accused of burglary in circumstances where the prosecution case rested solely on seconds of CCTV footage. Delivering judgment for the High Court, His Honour Judge Mark McGarrity opined, “Whilst acutely conscious that it is important that

Northern Ireland’s High Court has answered novel questions concerning the legal nature of an exclusive right of burial and whether same includes an incidental right to erect a headstone on a burial plot. Delivering judgment for the High Court, Lady Justice Denise McBride determined that the ap

Northern Ireland’s Crown Court has imposed a suspended sentence on a father who shook his newborn, causing her to sustain serious and lifelong injuries.

The Supreme Court has determined that an interest rate variation clause contained within Bank of Ireland’s commercial loan terms and conditions gave the bank the sweeping power to change the interest reference rate from EURIBOR to BCOF unilaterally. 

Northern Ireland’s Crown Court has sentenced Jeffrey Donaldson to prison in respect of his sexual abuse of two children between 1985 - 2008.  Delivering judgment for the Crown Court, His Honour Judge Paul Ramsay highlighted that “There has not been and doubtless will not be one word

The High Court has determined that the Minister for Justice was not required to consider the exercise of the discretion conferred by section 16 of the Irish National and Citizenship Act 1956 without any specific request to do so.

The High Court has refused to grant leave for a daughter’s challenge concerning years of alleged failings on part of the HSE in the care of her parents.

The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by a Ukrainian couple who contended that their disqualification from disability and carer’s allowances while living in a designated accommodation centre was discriminatory. 

The Supreme Court has refused leave to appeal in a challenge concerning planning permissions granted for the construction of a data centre and substation in Co. Clare.

The High Court has struck out proceedings seeking discovery of records alleged to have arisen from an audit of a series of patient cases at Beaumont Hospital from 2010 to 2013.

The High Court has released a convicted sex offender from detention pending his challenge to his deportation to Bangladesh.

The Supreme Court has made an exceptional award of 50 per cent of two taxpayers’ legal costs following their unsuccessful challenge to the legality of the Collector General’s fee arrangements.

The High Court has confirmed a decision to suspend the registration of a HSE physiotherapist who publicly condemned Government’s handling of COVID-19 pandemic.

Northern Ireland’s High Court dismissed a remitted application for leave to apply for judicial review in dispute over Parade Commission’s decision to permit Orange Lodge procession on Garvaghy Road.