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...
Regulatory Oversight and Commissioned Agency Models: When Discrimination Tribunal Jurisdiction Ends Because the Claimant Is Not an “Employee” Case: McGreevy v NFU Mutual Insurance Society LTD [2025]...
Legacy Inquests, “Public Record” Rationales, and Stays Pending Legislative Reform: Commentary on Soldiers A & C, Application for Judicial Review [2025] NICA 64 1. Introduction This Court of Appeal...
“Immediate” Means Imminent, Not Contingent: Limits on Parole Commissioners’ Powers under Article 28 Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 1. Introduction This judgment of the Court of Appeal...
Coherent Reasons, Comparators and the Burden of Proof in Sex Discrimination Claims: Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council v O'Neill [2025] NICA 61 1. Introduction This Court of Appeal...
Open Justice Prevails over Party Anonymity Where Article 2/8 Thresholds Are Not Met, Despite Withholding Sensitive Anonymity Submissions 1. Introduction Rana (t/a Dee Indian Ltd) v Bouliach (Re...
Misnaming a Deceased Plaintiff Does Not Void Estate Proceedings: Commentary on In the Matter of the Estate of Hugh Fitzpatrick (Deceased) [2025] NICA 59 Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland, Keegan...
Grant v Metloc Systems Ltd [2025] NICA 60: Clarifying the “Just and Equitable” Extension of Time Test in Northern Ireland Discrimination Claims 1. Introduction This Court of Appeal decision in Grant...
The Exceptional Threshold for Setting Aside Administration Orders and the Effect of Pensions Regulator Vesting Orders: Commentary on Incartus Ltd (In Administration) [2025] NICA 58 1. Introduction...
Acquiescence by Open Litigation Conduct: NICA holds that counsel‑endorsed position papers and a draft order conceding jurisdiction amount to clear and irrevocable Article 13(1)(a) acquiescence...
Bunting & Anor v Blaney & Anor (No. 2): The “Four Cs” Standard for Grounds of Appeal and Respondents’ Notices 1. Introduction In Bunting & Anor v Blaney & Anor (No. 2: Best Practice) [2025] NICA 67,...
Carson v McKee [2025] NICA 53 — Courts must grapple with operative medical evidence before refusing adjournments; failure is a material error warranting limited remittal Introduction In Carson v...
R v Andrews [2025] NICA 54: Consecutive Sentences Across Multiple Indictments and Parity of Attempted Rape with Rape — A Robust Totality Review in Multi‑Victim Online Sexual Offending Reporting...
Morris v NIHE: Court of Appeal reaffirms the primacy of statutory review and resource‑sensitive deference in challenges to temporary accommodation, and expects explicit leave decisions in rolled‑up...
New 8–15 Year Sentencing Range for Multiple Hijackings, Article 6 Delay Not Mitigation, and Prosecutorial Duty to Indicate Sentencing Range — Commentary on R v Collins & Mateer [2025] NICA 50 Case:...