Case Reports

A letting agent that charged a tenant £36 for “online services” provided when the tenant was applying to rent a property in 2015, has been ordered by Belfast County Court to return the administration fee. Finding that if the agent had not been involved that the service paid for would have been

The Court of Appeal has found that the current law enables legally valid humanist weddings to be performed in Northern Ireland. Overturning the High Court’s declaration that the lack of equal recognition discriminated against humanists pursuant to Articles 9 and 14 ECHR by not protecting a manifes

An Irish man sought by the US on narcotics, computer hacking, and money laundering charges connected to his alleged role as an administrator for dark web site Silk Road has lost his appeal to the Supreme Court in which he sought to halt his extradition. Rejecting arguments raised by the man, who has

A man who was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment after being convicted of raping a woman in 2014, has had his appeal against his conviction dismissed in the Court of Appeal. Stating that it was difficult to envisage what more might have been said to the jury on the issue of consent, Mr Justice Ala

A different-sex couple who object to marriage on the basis they believe it is patriarchal and who sought judicial review of the respondent’s refusal to make legislative changes which would allow them to enter into a civil partnership have had their appeal unanimously allowed by justices in the UK

A company that submitted a tender for a towing contract with An Garda Síochána can proceed with an application for judicial review of the decision to award the contract to another company, after the Commissioner of An Garda Síochána was unsuccessful in its application to have the proceedings dis

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that the UK discriminated against a transgender woman who was denied a pension on reaching the retirement age for women. The case concerned transgender woman MB, who was assigned male at birth in 1948, married a woman in 1974, began to live as a woman in

in separate proceedings with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council (DLR) in 2013, and indicating that ILG expected to deliver a similar defence to the debt that was the subject of the default judgment. Mr Justice Barrett said that it was still unexplained why:

AIB Mortgage Bank have lost their application to the High Court in which they sought Ms Justice Baker to revisit her judgment in which summary judgment was granted in their favour, which they argued was liable to be misinterpreted and result in litigation chaos. In relation to the consideration of t

A man convicted of raping a 15-year-old family friend has successfully appealed his conviction over the trial judge's ruling preventing his lawyers from questioning the girl as to why she was on the contraceptive pill at the time. The girl had asserted that she was a virgin before her encounter with

A man who has been ordered for surrender to the USA to face child pornography charges has been unsuccessful in a bid to overturn failed judicial review proceedings, challenging the decision of the Minister for Justice and Equality to order his surrender under s.33 of the Extradition Act 1965. Dismis

The High Court has reserved judgment on whether further steps are to be taken in respect of two lawyers accused of misleading the court in an effort to stop the deportation of a Polish criminal. In a recent judgment, Mr Justice David Keane said lawyers for Thomas Bebenek had used litigation as a “

A Dublin pub has lost an appeal against the award of €5,000 to a customer who was accused by a barman of using a fake €10 to pay for a pint. Upholding the order of the Circuit Court, Mr Justice Michael MacGrath accepted the version of events as outlined by the plaintiff, and said that any privil

The Child and Family Agency has successfully appealed orders of the High Court which were made in regards to ongoing child abuse proceedings. The High Court had granted orders requiring the CFA to allow the respondent in the investigation to cross-examine the complainant in circumstances where the i

A 27-year-old woman who pleaded guilty to assaulting a man with head injuries in an unprovoked attack, has had her sentence reduced in the Court of Appeal. The woman appealed against the severity of her sentence of 12 years with the final 3 years suspended, submitting that her early guilty plea shou