Case Reports

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A woman who pleaded guilty to stealing over €460K when she took over the running of her ill husband’s business in 2010, has been successful in an appeal against the severity of her sentence. Suspending the final 6 months of the 18-month sentence, Justice Birmingham said that the powerful mitigat

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Austrian privacy campaigner Max Schrems can bring an individual action in Austria against Facebook Ireland, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled. However, he cannot bring proceedings on behalf of seven other users in Austria, Germany and India who assigned him their claims for

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The State has been unsuccessful in its application to prevent a challenge to planning permission granted by An Bord Pleanala for the development of a quarry in Donegal. The State argued that the challenge amounted to an impermissible collateral attack on an earlier decision by Donegal County Council

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A prisoner who suffered broken bones in his neck and back in a road traffic accident, and who allegedly missed hospital appointments in relation to the same, has had his application for judicial review refused in the High Court. Finding that the prison medical team had not been informed of the appoi

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Applicants who were unsuccessful in their challenge to the planning approval for 300 pylons from Tyrone to Meath, have been denied leave to appeal the decision to the Court of Appeal. Criticising the applicants for protracting the proceedings with an overly optimistic application under s.50A(7) of t

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A man who fractured his shoulder when he tripped on a stone block projecting from the Luas Bridge has been awarded €67,500 for disability and loss of function to his right arm. Declining to make any finding of contributory negligence on the part of the plaintiff, Mr Justice Barr awarded €40,000

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An Garda Siochana Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) has been successful in an application for judicial review, quashing an order for costs against it made in Sligo District Court in 2013. In the High Court, Ms Justice O’Regan found that GSOC was not a party to the proceedings in the District Court, as i

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