Case Reports

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

The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Karen Bradley, has been granted an order vacating the hearing date of an application for judicial review which sought to compel the Secretary of State and the Executive Office to follow recommendations made in the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry r

A man who killed his friend by stabbing him 33 times in a "frenzied and sustained attack" has been given an indeterminate custodial sentence after pleading guilty to manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility. Specifying that a tariff of eight years must be served before the man’s rel

A man who began judicial review proceedings, seeking an order of mandamus compelling the Minister for Justice and Equality to make a decision on his application for permission to reside and work in the State, has lost his application for costs in the High Court. Levelling criticism at the lack of in

An application for costs related to judicial review proceedings which were rendered moot before they could be heard has been refused in the High Court. The applicant had been granted leave to seek an order of mandamus compelling the Minister for Justice and Equality to make a decision on her applica

A woman whose Article 40 Inquiry into the lawfulness of her detention was rendered moot has lost her application for costs. The woman and her family had been residing in the State under derived residence rights due to her husband’s EU citizenship but had failed to comply with the European Comm

A 41-year-old man from Belfast who groomed a 14-year-old girl in 2012 has lost an appeal against his conviction. The man was found guilty of a total of nine counts of ‘sexual touching of a person under 16’, seven of which involved penetration, and was sentenced to three-and-a-half years'

A fifty-year-old man who pleaded guilty to raping and sexually assaulting is nieces when he lived at their grandmother’s house between 2001 and 2010 has lost an appeal against the severity of his sentence. The man, who had a history of serious sexual offences and convictions for burglary, was

Inspectors have been appointed by the High Court to investigate allegations made by the Director of Corporate Enforcement against Independent News and Media PLC. Finding that the evidence showed that six of the ten circumstances prescribed by section 748 of the Companies Act 2014 were applicable, Mr

Irish Life have been unsuccessful in their application to dismiss a claim for damages brought by a former employee whose pension was considered an asset in UK bankruptcy proceedings. The claim is based on the fact that the old pension scheme, of which the employee was a member, was approved by the H

A prison officer who sustained a herniated disc in his back in the course of restraining and lifting a prisoner in January 2013, has had his claim dismissed on the grounds that it was statute barred. Granting the State defendants an application to dismiss the claim which was issued by way of plenary

A woman who was employed as a cleaning supervisor at a hospital in Limerick has had her claim for personal injuries remitted to the High Court for a determination on causation and damages, after the Court of Appeal found that her employer was negligent in failing to provide a safe place of work. All