Gillian O'Hanlon BL

The High Court has struck out proceedings seeking discovery of records alleged to have arisen from an audit of a series of patient cases at Beaumont Hospital from 2010 to 2013.

The High Court has released a convicted sex offender from detention pending his challenge to his deportation to Bangladesh.

The Supreme Court has made an exceptional award of 50 per cent of two taxpayers’ legal costs following their unsuccessful challenge to the legality of the Collector General’s fee arrangements.

The High Court has confirmed a decision to suspend the registration of a HSE physiotherapist who publicly condemned Government’s handling of COVID-19 pandemic.

Northern Ireland’s High Court dismissed a remitted application for leave to apply for judicial review in dispute over Parade Commission’s decision to permit Orange Lodge procession on Garvaghy Road.

The High Court has granted leave to a minor to apply to quash a HSE decision refusing to reimburse him for prescription weight loss injections.

The High Court has refused to set aside a final order of the High Court striking out Peter Nowak’s appeal from a 2016 Circuit Court decision in his favour.

The High Court has answered in the positive the novel question of whether elements of proceedings are severable for the purposes of applications to dismiss for want of prosecution.

The High Court has refused to permit distribution of a deceased man’s estate in accordance with settlement terms in circumstances where all persons potentially entitled on intestacy were neither notified of, nor joined to the proceedings and were not parties to the settlement.

The District Court has criticised failures on part of the Child and Family Agency in “among the gravest cases of child abuse” in recent times.

The High Court has reversed a decision of the Valuation Tribunal which determined that buildings on a company’s extensive Co. Cork lands were not rateable.

The High Court has refused to quash the conviction of a man who threatened an entrant onto lands sold by receiver.

The High Court has adjourned a debt claim for nearly €1 million to plenary hearing in light of forgery allegations.

The Court of Appeal of Northern Ireland has dismissed a CCRC reference on the safety of John McDevitt’s 1986 murder conviction.

The Court of Appeal has dismissed dancer Michael Flatley’s appeal from a €1.1 million security for costs order in €30 million defective works case.