Case Reports

A man who broke into a house and murdered a couple and their son before raping their daughter suffered no violation of his article 3 right – prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment – judges in the European Court of Human Rights have ruled by 14 votes to 3. The case concerned a complaint by

Facebook has succeeded in its appeal against an award of £20,000 in compensation, which the High Court held it was liable to pay to a convicted sex offender for misuse of private information. In finding that Facebook could only be held liable for a limited 10-day period in which information about t

in the cartel during that period, the Commission considered that most of the proposed reductions were no longer appropriate for the period 1993-2004. The change in position of the Roullier group explains why it cannot rely on the principle of the protection of legitimate expectations regarding main

The drunk driver who killed Enda Dolan, the 18-year-old first-year architecture student at Queen's University, has had his sentence increased by two years after the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) challenged the overly generous mitigation in the man’s sentencing. In a reference by the DPP un

An official liquidator of a company must provide the Revenue, as a significant creditor of the company in liquidation, with the detailed breakdown of work done in order for there to be a determination on the reasonableness of those fees, the High Court has ruled. The Revenue had contended that the f

A 58-year-old man was successful in his negligence claim against the Health Service Executive, in which he was awarded over €700,000 for significant disability caused by an accidental tear in his ureter while removing a kidney stone in 1998. In the High Court, Mr Justice Cross accepted evidence fr

AIB has had its application for summary judgment against a farmer and his wife refused by the High Court. Delivering the judgment, Mr Justice Max Barrett stated EU rules on unfair contracts imposed a duty on the Court to assess whether a contractual term falling within the scope of directive was unf

A man indicted in Florida for first degree murder and attempted robbery with a firearm whom the US authorities have been seeking to extradite since 2003 has made a second, article 3, application to the European Court of Human Rights complaining that a first-degree murder conviction in the US carries

A restaurant has been unsuccessful in its bid to overturn determinations of the Rights Commissioner and the Employment Appeals Tribunal, which had awarded a former employee €26,000 for breaches of the Unfair Dismissals Acts 1977-1993. Dismissing the application for Judicial Review in the High Cour

Muslim parents in Switzerland whose daughters were refused an exemption from compulsory mixed swimming lessons by authorities suffered no violation of their article 9 rights (freedom of thought, conscience and religion), judges in the European Court of Human Rights have unanimously ruled. The court

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) will be delivering a Grand Chamber judgment in the case of Hutchinson v the United Kingdom on 17 January 2017 in a case concerning the complaint by a man serving a whole life sentence for murder that his sentence amounts to inhuman and degrading treatment a

A man who falsely imprisoned and robbed an escort in a hotel in Cork has had his sentence reduced from eight years to one of six years imprisonment. At the time of his sentencing, the man, who had carried out the offence along with the accomplice, was already serving a five-year sentence for a simil

Tenants of a number of properties in receivership have been successful in the High Court where they sought the Digital Audio Recording of proceedings in Naas Circuit Court, which had ordered that they vacate properties in Kildare. The tenants’ alleged that the order made was unconstitutional as it

A man who converted his passenger van into a motor vehicle has been successful in the High Court, overturning a finding by the Revenue Commissioners that his vehicle had not been significantly changed from its pre-conversion state and therefore remained subject to a higher excise tax under the Finan

A mother-of-four, who was refused bereavement benefits upon the death of her cohabiting partner of 23 years, has had her application for judicial review dismissed by the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal. The Court overturned the decision of the the High Court, in which Justice Treacy found that the