Killian Flood BL

The High Court has ruled that the verdict of unlawful killing will be open to the jury in the Stardust inquest following a challenge from the former manager of the nightclub. It was claimed that the Coroner could not consider issues of criminal or civil liability in an inquest and that a verdict of

The Supreme Court has held that the State unreasonably delayed the publication of certain environmental legislation in the Irish language. The respondents were seeking to challenge a compulsory purchase order for lands in the Connemara Gaeltacht and claimed that they did not have reasonable access t

The High Court has refused a last-minute adjournment application from a litigant-in-person who claimed that she had been tricked into attending court in the past and that “wild horses wouldn’t drag me to Dublin tomorrow” for the hearing. The litigant claimed that the plaintiff&rsqu

The High Court has rejected a claim by John Delaney that certain documents seized by the Director of Corporate Enforcement were subject to legal privilege. Mr Delaney asserted that 1,123 digital documents were privileged and should not form part of the ODCE’s investigation into the Football As

The High Court has refused to grant an interlocutory injunction restraining a company from selling a generic version of a previously patented drug on the basis that the taxpayer would save €8 million. The drug was used to treat multiple sclerosis and was the subject of a patent which expired in

The High Court has refused an application by a woman for a declaration that she was a qualified cohabitant of a deceased man who was married to another woman. The woman claimed to have been in a committed, exclusive relationship with the man for several years and therefore sought orders for property

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from an accused who claimed that he was entitled to be interviewed by gardaí during the investigation stage of alleged crimes. It was said that the accused was entitled to have his defence placed on the record while being questioned by gardaí an

The Court of Appeal has dismissed an application brought by a man seeking to quash convictions for murder, burglary and false imprisonment on the ground that a newly-discovered fact showed there had been a miscarriage of justice. The man relied on medical expert evidence which stated that he was in

The High Court has granted a declaration that certain monies owed by defendants to a plaintiff on foot of a mortgage loan were well-charged against a property despite the court not being satisfied that adequate particularisation of the underlying debt had been provided. On the evidence in the case,

The High Court has struck out a plaintiff’s personal injuries claim for damages arising from bullying and harassment in the workplace on the basis that the proceedings were statute-barred. The plaintiff had lodged a PIAB application 10 months outside the two-year limitation period but claimed

The High Court has quashed a decision by the International Protection Appeals Tribunal (IPAT) which refused international protection to a Muslim man who claimed to be persecuted for working in the beef trade in India. The man was previously attacked by cow vigilantes who wanted him to stop his work

The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal which was brought by a solicitor purporting to act on behalf of a ward of court. The court held that the legal practitioners did not have any lawful authority to pursue the appeal after the man had been brought into wardship, which related to the costs of

The High Court has approved a personal insolvency arrangement for a couple despite objections from a creditor that the PIA was unsustainable. It was argued that the debtors’ total income under the arrangement would not be sufficient to maintain a reasonable standard of living for themselves an

The High Court has dismissed an appeal from an insurance provider against a decision of the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (FSPO) that it acted unreasonably by declining to cover losses to a business arising from the Covid-19 pandemic. Hiscox SA had brought a statutory appeal claiming tha

The High Court has ruled that a plaintiff company must provide security for costs in proceedings which were estimated to cost the defendants €3 million. The court held that there were no special circumstances which existed to justify refusing the application for security for costs and that each