Case Reports

The Supreme Court has ruled that a bakery's refusal to supply a cake iced with the message ‘Support Gay Marriage’ was not discriminatory on the grounds of sexual orientation, as the refusal was based on the message and not to any particular person. The Court also held that the Fair Emplo

The Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation must reconsider an application to renew an employment permit which was refused because it had been submitted eight days after the previous year’s permit had lapsed. Granting an order of certiorari, quashing the decision, Mr Justice Seam

The directors of a construction company who, along with their wives, signed guarantees in respect of the indebtedness of their company to the Bank of Ireland, have lost their Supreme Court appeal against the €1 million summary judgment granted by the High Court in 2011. Finding that there was n

A retired Garda sergeant who suffered and sustained significant personal injuries in the course of restraining a prisoner has been granted an order of certiorari, quashing the refusal of the Minister for Justice and Equality to authorise his application for compensation. Remitting the matter to the

A woman who contended that the Flags (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2000 breached the Good Friday Agreement 1998, has had her application for judicial review dismissed in the High Court in Belfast. Finding that in introducing the Regulations, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland had fulfille

A woman who worked nearly 60 hours per week, as evidenced by emails sent outside of her contracted hours of 40 hours per week, has been awarded €7,500 in compensation. Agreeing with the Workplace Relations Commission's finding that the employer was in breach of the Organisation of Working Time

AIB have been granted an Isaac Wunder Order, restraining a man from acting as a “McKenzie Friend”. Providing the relief sought by AIB, Mr Justice Robert Haughton granted, inter alia, a permanent injunction restraining the man ‘from advising, participating in, assisting or

A man who was 17-years-old when he was shot in the face while attending a civil rights march in Derry on 30 January 1972 has been awarded £193,000 in compensation. The man was one of 28 innocent people who were shot by soldiers on Bloody Sunday, 13 of whom were killed or mortally wounded and a

The Child And Family Agency (Tusla) has been granted orders pursuant to the Adoption Act 2010 for the adoption of a child in favour of foster parents who have cared for him since October 2000, when he was thirteen weeks old. The birth parents opposed the adoption, however Mr Justice Michael MacGrath

A child who is the subject of an interim care order granted by an English Court must be returned to the jurisdiction of England and Wales after it was found that the child was wrongfully removed from the jurisdiction by her parents. The child had been removed from the care of her parents due to the

A husband and wife who sought orders of certiorari of International Protection Appeals Tribunal decisions, have had their applications dismissed in the High Court. Describing the husband’s "highly improbable" story of his escape from custody in Ukraine as "cliff-hangingly filmic", Mr Justice

Mid-Ulster District Council have successfully appealed a finding of the High Court that the correct approach to calculating domestic rates was a matter at the discretion of the Department of Environment (DoE). The DoE submitted that the conversion factor applied to the capital value in each council

A stay has been granted in the test case raising the technical objection of the use of contractors by the International Protection Office (IPO) in the process of coming up with a negative recommendation. Restraining the International Protection Appeals Tribunal (IPAT) from further processing the app

A mother who sought an order under Article 40.4 of the Constitution for release of her three-month-old child from the custody of the Child and Family Agency has had her application dismissed in the High Court. The interim care order was granted in circumstances where the District Court judge had n

Dunnes Stores have been granted an extension of time to appeal the Labour Court’s decision to increase the compensation awarded to a former employee from €15,000 to €30,000. The Workplace Relations Commission and the Labour Court both held that the woman’s dismissal on grounds