Gillian O'Hanlon BL

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.

The High Court has refused to strike out a professional negligence claim against the former partner of a dissolved firm of solicitors.

The High Court has confirmed the attachment of conditions to the registration of a retired army doctor who informed his colleague that there was a 90 per cent chance she had cancer and that she was sitting on a “health bomb”.

The High Court has refused to grant injunctive relief to Kingdom Water CEO in respect of statement in “fact-checking” article.

The High Court has dismissed the claim of a child who severely fractured her leg at a trampolining facility in Co. Cork.

Northern Ireland’s High Court has made a third declaratory order as against the Executive Committee for Northern Ireland in respect of its failure to adopt an Irish Language Strategy

The High Court has ordered the DPP and the Registrar of the Special Criminal Court to produce books of evidence, transcripts, rulings and miscellaneous evidence relating to the prosecutions of individuals involved in dissident terrorism in 90’s

The High Court has determined that the detention of an unrepresented accused was not in accordance with law in circumstances where his bail hearing was fundamentally flawed. Delivering judgment for the High Court in August, Mr Justice Garrett Simons opined “An immediate release pursuant to Art

Northern Ireland’s Crown Court has sentenced a former primary school teacher to three years’ imprisonment for campaign of domestic abuse. Delivering judgment for the Crown Court, His Honour Judge Patrick Lynch opined: “The defendant’s conduct was over a period of eight years.