Case Reports

A 24 year old man who was sentenced to two years and six months' imprisonment for pouring boiling water over his pregnant girlfriend, causing her to spend ten days in hospital needing skin graft surgery, has had his custodial sentence increased to four years on appeal. Delivering the judgment of the

The company Forge de Laguiole may oppose the registration, at EU level, of the trade mark Laguiole in the area of, inter alia, knives and cutlery but may not oppose the registration of the trade mark Laguiole in areas in which it does not actually pursue a business activity, the Court of Justice of

of witnesses in hearings before it”. The case also raised “important questions of freedom of speech in Parliament, the separation of powers and the extent to which the court may intervene in the affairs of the Legislature”.

Two transgender persons suffered violations of their article 8 rights on account of an obligation to establish the irreversible nature of the change in their appearance in order to vary their birth names, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. In today’s Chamber judgment in the case of A.P.

A man who was unanimously convicted by a jury on two counts of false imprisonment has had his conviction quashed in the Court of Appeal. Delivering the judgment of the three-judge Court, Mr Justice Alan Mahon ruled that the trial judge should have discharged the jury after a witness inadvertently di

A businessman convicted of tax fraud in the UK has lost a challenge to the European Arrest Warrant for his surrender to the UK authorities. Delivering the judgment of the seven-judge Supreme Court, Mr Justice Donal O’Donnell rejected the argument that the absence of a “statutory legal aid scheme

Businessman Denis O’Brien has lost his case against the Dáil Éireann and Members of the Committee on Procedure and Privileges in which he sought to challenge utterances made on the floor of the Dáil which disclosed information protected by a High Court injunction. Rejecting Mr O’Brien’s arg

A man who was convicted of assaulting two men in a hotel room in Dublin, one of whom was his former girlfriend’s alleged rapist, has successfully appealed the severity of his sentence. Delivering the judgment of the three-judge Court of Appeal, Mr Justice Alan Mahon found that the sentencing judge

The Attorney General for Northern Ireland’s refusal to grant a fresh inquest into the death of a man during the troubles has been upheld in the High Court in Belfast. The deceased’s daughter brought an application to quash by certiorari the decision of the Attorney General (AG), arguing that a f

The Director of Public Prosecutions has lost an appeal against the “unduly lenient” sentencing of a woman who was given a suspended sentence for violently biting off 9 square centimetres of another woman’s bottom lip. Refusing to alter the sentence, Mr Justice Edwards was satisfied that the wo

A man who was described as posing a risk to both himself and to the public if released from the Central Medical Hospital has been detained as a ward of court by order of Mr Justice Kelly, President of the High Court. Background

The Sunday Newspapers have lost an appeal to the Supreme Court, in which they argued that the case being brought against them by individuals involved in co-ordinating the Witness Protection Programme should be heard fully in public so as to give effect to the Constitution. Rejecting the newspaper’

A group of Irish Water protestors who had their charges for public order offences dismissed in the Dublin Metropolitan District Court have had their case reverted to the District judge after it was found in the High Court that the protestors should have been charged with offences under s. 8 of the C

A Commandant who was fined and had his salary reduced for prodding a superior officer in the chest with his finger, and for using insulting language against the same, has lost an appeal against his conviction. Delivering the judgment of the three-judge Court of Appeal, Mr Justice Edwards rejected al

The directors of a family business in Limerick were given three year suspended sentences when they were found to have deliberately made false tax returns, resulting in an estimated €0.25m loss to the Revenue. The Director of Public Prosecutions appealed contending that the fully suspended sentence