Case Reports

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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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A mother and her three children who arrived in Ireland in 2007, and who were deported to Nigeria in 2011 after a failed refugee status claim and an unsuccessful subsidiary protection application, have lost their appeal in the Supreme Court. The applicants sought to challenge a 2012 High Court ruling

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in it by being complicit with another in the formulation of a strategy to withhold full information from persons entitled to it, and in the discounting of moral and ethical concerns in the consideration that was given to a particular proposed course of action”. Considering Article 40.6.10 of the

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A man who was due payment of €50,000 pursuant to a Circuit Family Court Order is to proceed with a claim in negligence against his ex-wife’s solicitor, after the High Court refused to strike out the action. The dispute arose after the solicitor held the €50,000 owed to the man in a client acco

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In a landmark judgment, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that Uber provides "a service in the field of transport", rather than a simple "information society service". The court said Uber provides, by means of a smartphone application, a paid service consisting of connectin

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A man who was convicted of murdering another in Crumlin in 2001, has successfully appealed his conviction on the basis that the trial judge made impermissible comments to the jury that could have been construed as advocating the prosecution case. In the five-judge Supreme Court, the appeal was allow

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