Case Reports

A member of An Garda Síochána has been awarded over €40,000 in damages for an injury to his finger caused by a detainee who became violent while being photographed and fingerprinted. Describing the Detective Garda as a genuine officer and “not a moaner whatsoever”, Mr

Permanent TSB (PTSB) has lost an appeal against a Personal Insolvency Arrangement (PIA) which was confirmed in the Circuit Court in 2017. PTSB had voted against the terms of the PIA, in which the Personal Insolvency Practitioner proposed that the mortgage debt be written down, and the remaining bala

The Royal College of Surgeons has successfully appealed the Court of Appeal’s decision to quash its refusal to grant CPD accreditation for a live plastic surgery event. Chief Justice, Mr Justice Frank Clarke held that it was open to RCSI to reject the private clinic’s application for CPD

A man who stabbed his friend to death must serve a minimum of ten years' imprisonment before he can be considered for release by the Parole Commissioners. The man had consumed alcohol and drugs before fatally injuring his friend with a single stab wound.

A man who was convicted of sexually assaulting his two-year-old son while the child’s mother was at work has lost an appeal against his conviction. Finding that the trial judge had correctly admitted hearsay evidence in the interests of justice, Lord Justice Ben Stephens also dismissed the app

The Investor Compensation Company has lost an application to the High Court for directions which would enable it to be subrogated to the right of clients of a liquidated company to whom compensation has already been paid. Since the directions sought by ICCL did not relate to identified claims, Ms Ju

A man who was made a Ward of Court four days before he was due to be released from the Central Mental Hospital (CMH) has lost his appeal to the Supreme Court. Counsel for the man had argued that because he satisfied the statutory criteria for admission to the CMH under the Mental Health Act 2001, th

Four men have been given life sentences for the murder of a man who was shot in front of his three-year-old child in Bangor in 2017. Stating that the murder had “paramilitary overtones”, Judge Adrian Colton imposed minimum tariffs of between 15 and 16 years for the men who had pleaded gu

The requirement for a person to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that they did not commit an offence in order to access compensation for a miscarriage of justice does not breach their right to presumption of innocence, the Supreme Court has ruled. The question in the appeals was whether the definitio

Permanent TSB have been granted an order discharging the purported order of the Master of the High Court to strike out a Special Summons. Stating that it beggared belief that the Master continued to make such orders despite recent decisions clearly stating that he had no jurisdiction to do so, Mr Ju

An egg company in Galway has been granted an injunction restraining its former supplier from trading under a similar name, after the Court of Appeal found that the actions of its competitor constituted the tort of passing off. Overturning the High Court’s dismissal of the claim, Ms Justice Car

A construction company that changed the terms of its loan agreements with IBRC, allowing for an expert to estimate the amount of profit to be evenly distributed, has lost its appeal to the Supreme Court. Finding that the agreement entered into in 2011 bound the company to accept the terms of agreeme

In divorce proceedings which began in 2002, the Supreme Court has ordered that the ex-husband should receive 25% of his pension fund and the ex-wife should receive 75%. The ex-husband had appealed the original apportionment in which his ex-wife had been awarded 80% of the fund, valued at around &eur

The Director of Public Prosecutions has lost an appeal against wholly suspended sentence which was given to a man who pleaded guilty to stabbing another man in the back with a kitchen knife. Accepting that the sentence was indeed a very lenient one, Mr Justice John Edwards said that an ent