Out-of-Time Appeals in Care Order Litigation: Child Welfare, Finality, and Prior Merits Review 1. Introduction In Southern Health and Social Care Trust v J [2026] NICA 18, the Court of Appeal in...
Section 7 Land Registration Act (NI) 1970: Finality of High Court Appeals, Recitals vs Operative Orders, and Exceptional Rights of Audience 1. Introduction In McKeever v Key Property Management Ltd...
Maguire, R. v [2026] NICA 12 — Guilty Plea Discount Must Be Applied After the Section 15 Domestic Abuse Aggravator Uplift 1. Introduction The King v Barry Maguire concerned an appeal against sentence...
FOIA s.51 Information Notices: s.51(1)(a) Is Disjunctive from s.51(1)(b) and the Commissioner May Require Sight of Legally Privileged Material to Decide a s.50 Complaint 1. Introduction Police...
Right to Silence Preserved in Regulatory Proceedings: No Adverse Inference from an After‑Caution “No Comment” Interview 1. Introduction Belvoir Logistics Ltd & Anor v Driver and Vehicle Agency [2026]...
Custody as a Precondition to Accelerated Release Applications under the 1998 Act, and Quashing Unlawful Release Despite Delay 1. Introduction This Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland decision...
Consent-to-Prosecute as a Jurisdictional Precondition for Article 10 Public Order (NI) Offences; Section 33 Compliance Not Exclusive 1. Introduction Public Prosecution Service v Stitt [2026] NICA 9...
R v Rainey & Ors [2026] NICA 8 — “Safety” (not “Unease”) as the Appellate Test; Vigilante Group Murders as “Very Serious” (20-Year) Tariff Cases Court: Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland Date: 26...
GW v R [2026] NICA 6 — Sentencing Must Reflect a Narrow Interpretation of Specimen-Count Verdicts (and Credit Unexplained Delay) 1) Introduction GW v R is a Northern Ireland Court of Appeal...
Material Non-Disclosure of Custody Medical Evidence Undermining Confessions Renders Legacy Convictions Unsafe Case: The King v Patrick Lawrence O'Neill Neutral Citation: [2026] NICA 14 (Court of...
Extreme Section 18 Assaults on Infants: Sentences May Properly Exceed the R v Darren Fegan [2018] NICA 2 Range (with Reasons) and Totality Must Be Made Transparent Case: Fulton & Anor, R. v Neutral...
R v McBrearty [2026] NICA 4 — Sentencing Article 7 Sexual Assault: Proportionality, Flexibility Beyond Article 6 Benchmarks, and the Bar on “Sentencing for Left-on-the-Books” Counts 1. Introduction...
Short Sexual Offence Sentences: Mandatory Consideration and Explanation of Community Disposal (Watson Not a Rigid Rule) 1. Introduction Kasak, R. v ([2026] NICA 2 (Rev1)) is a sentence appeal in the...
Permissible Contradiction, Not Imperissible Impeachment: Section 3 of the Criminal Law Procedure Act 1865 Allows the Prosecution to Call Later Evidence Contradicting Its Own Witness Where the Purpose...
Mortgagee’s Duties in Portfolio Sales and the Centrality of Proving Loss: Commentary on Shortt v Bank of Ireland (UK) PLC [2025] NICA 65 1. Introduction Shortt v Bank of Ireland (UK) PLC [2025] NICA...
Cavan v Bunting [2025] NICA 68 — When Targeted Social-Media “Grooming” Allegations Cross Article 10 into Actionable Harassment 1. Introduction Cavan v Bunting concerned the boundary between robust...
Reasonable Steps Beyond the Etridge Certificate in Spousal Suretyship: Fact-Specific Compliance and the Need for Transaction-by-Transaction Warnings 1. Introduction Excel-A-Rate Business Services Ltd...
Yellow Card Proportionality: Live Ammunition Unjustified Against a Bottle-Throwing Youth in Public Disorder (Inquest into Desmond Healey) 1. Introduction This decision is a published summary of the...
Spousal Surety Guarantees in Northern Ireland: Strict “Etridge” Compliance for Enforceability and Priority Case: Bunting & Excel - A Rate Business Services Ltd v Blaney & Anor Neutral citation:...
Procedural unfairness in Industrial Tribunal appeals: appellate determination de novo and “panoramic” assessment of overall fairness Case: DD v TT Neutral citation: [2025] NICA 75 (Court of Appeal in...