AR v Minister for Justice [2025] IEHC 552: Limiting Luximon and Confirming Deferred Assessment of Private‑Life Rights for Unlawfully Present Migrants 1. Introduction This High Court judgment of...
R v Madaweni [2025] EWCA Crim 1427: Fresh psychiatric evidence on appeal—diminished responsibility requires a causal explanation; mental disorder may still mitigate on sentence Court: England and...
R v Demiraj [2025] EWCA Crim 1468: The Jury’s Role, “Truth”, and Hearsay-Based Convictions 1. Introduction R v Demiraj [2025] EWCA Crim 1468 is an important Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)...
Abduction in Sexual Assault Sentencing and the Near‑Mandatory Use of Pre‑Sentence Reports in Dangerousness Assessments: Commentary on R v Thompson [2025] EWCA Crim 1462 1. Introduction The decision...
Reflecting Multiple Child Victims and Future Risk in Sexual Sentencing: Commentary on R v Ellis [2025] EWCA Crim 1498 1. Introduction This commentary examines the decision of the Court of Appeal...
Clarifying Costs and Final Remedies in Section 327 Social Welfare Appeals: Order 90 RSC ‘No Costs Unless Special Order’ Applies and the High Court May Restore an Earlier Decision Introduction This...
Keel v HM Advocate [2025] HCJAC 47: Early Intimation Drives Plea Discounts in Murder; Prolonged Failure to Seek Help Is a Material Aggravator Court: Appeal Court, High Court of Justiciary (Scotland)...
Beyond Beveridge: Distress as Non-Corroborative Yet Admissible, and the Primacy of Mutual Corroboration—TH v HM Advocate [2025] HCJAC 46 Introduction In TH v His Majesty’s Advocate [2025] HCJAC 46,...
The Billing-Currency Rule for Costs: Costs orders lie in sterling or the solicitors’ billing currency, not the claimant’s “loss currency” Case: Process & Industrial Developments Ltd v The Federal...
Policy Parity Is Not Legal Parity: Appropriate Assessment at the Discharge Stage for European Sites, but NPPF Ramsar Policy Cannot Override Vested Outline Permissions Introduction This Supreme Court...
R v WCU [2025] EWCA Crim 1414: Reaffirming the “exceptional” threshold for 30+ year sentences, tightening late guilty plea credit, and correcting the use of Special Custodial Sentences alongside...
Adequacy of Reasons in Criminal Law (Insanity) Act 2006 s.13 Reviews: Context, Dispute-Driven Reasoning, and No Duty to Formulate Unargued Tests 1) Introduction In D.K. v Mental Health [Criminal Law]...
New Latitude in AIE Statutory Appeals and the “Moldova Effect” on AIE Fees: High Court Refers Post‑MOP Question to the CJEU Introduction This commentary examines the High Court of Ireland’s decision...
Post‑Kirwan Strike-Out and Five‑Year Inactivity: High Court consolidates Order 19 (2023) powers to dismiss dormant mortgage litigation and vacate lis pendens Introduction In Cullen v Start Mortgages...
Feeney v Groves [2025] IEHC 633: Clarifying the Threshold for Seanad Recounts under Rule 14(2) of the 1947 Act 1. Introduction This High Court judgment by O’Higgins J in Angela Feeney v Groves & Ors...
High Court clarifies that individuals cannot mount freestanding transposition challenges; a three‑step standing test under s.87(10) EPA Act and the limits of actio popularis in environmental judicial...
Old Plan Policies Survive during s.31 Draft Direction where they 'Correspond' to the New Plan; Court Sets Six-Factor Test for Declaratory Relief and Reaffirms Harmless-Error Discretion in Renewable...
Reserved Lifetime Residence and Income Create “Settled Property” for CGT: High Court Reaffirms Keegan in O’Dwyer v Revenue Commissioners [2025] IEHC 490 Introduction In O’Dwyer v The Revenue...
“Reasonably Required” Means Already Known: High Court Clarifies that a Valid s.865 TCA Repayment Claim May Rely on Revenue-Held PAYE Data Introduction In McNamara [Deceased] v The Revenue...
CPR 52.19 costs caps refused where service-charge recoupment would shift unrecovered appeal costs onto non‑appellant leaseholders Introduction This commentary examines the England and Wales Court of...