Supreme Court

Applications have opened for the UK Supreme Court’s Moot programme for university law schools and law societies. The UK Supreme Court offers 12 graduate law schools and university law societies the chance to have their moot final judged by one of the Supreme Court Justices at the court or virt

The Supreme Court has published its 2025 Annual Report. In 2025 the Supreme Court returned to the regions with a landmark sitting in Letterkenny and opened its proceedings to wider audiences through a new broadcasting pilot.

Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE), represented by Community Law and Mediation’s Centre for Environmental Justice, is bringing its challenge to Climate Action Plan 2023 to the Supreme Court. Ireland’s Climate Action Plan is published annually with the purpose of setting a roadmap for

Court artist Mike O’Donnell has produced the first ever drawing published from the Supreme Court.

Lord Justice Stephens has been appointed to the UK Supreme Court. Her Majesty The Queen made the appointment on the advice of the Prime Minister and Lord Chancellor, following the recommendations of an independent selection commission.

The Supreme Court has referred the State's appeal against convicted murderer Graham Dwyer’s challenge to the use of his mobile phone data to the European Court of Justice.

The Supreme Court has set out how separated parents exercising joint custody of their children should be treated when applying for social housing assistance in a judgment welcomed by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC). The human rights watchdog exercised its role as amicus curiae

Mr Justice Peter Charleton, the Supreme Court judge who chaired the recent Disclosures Tribunal, has called for a "rebalancing" of the tribunal of inquiry system, warning that their functioning is becoming "close to impossible". The senior judge made the remarks in the 19th Annual John Hume Lecture,

Two of the most prominent women judges in Ireland and Britain addressed a sold-out Belfast event to mark International Women's Day 2019 last week. Lady Arden of the UK Supreme Court and Ms Justice Finlay Geoghegan of the Supreme Court of Ireland addressed judges, barristers, solicitors and academics

The Supreme Court of Ireland launched its inaugural annual report today to coincide with its historic sitting in Galway. The 2018 report reveals that new appeals to the court have increased by nearly a third (30 per cent) since 2016, while waiting times have been slashed from five years to one year.