When a Full Appeal Is Run, a Reduced Appellate Award Does Not Displace “Entire Success” for Costs: Commentary on AB v MW (No. 2) [2025] IEHC 517 Introduction This commentary examines the High Court...
FBD: Concurrency for proportionality in historic sexual offences and aggregated release under s.244A CJA 2003 Introduction In FBD, R. v [2025] EWCA Crim 1370, the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)...
MCK (R v) [2025] EWCA Crim 1371: Age and Lack of Previous Convictions Not a Bar to a Dangerousness Finding; Extended Determinate Sentence Upheld Introduction This commentary examines the decision in...
“Special circumstances” as a strict gateway to renewing an unserved summons: S.W. v Health Service Executive [2025] IEHC 526 Introduction In S.W. v Health Service Executive [2025] IEHC 526, the High...
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:...
Culpability and Mens Rea in “Allowing” under s.5 DVCVA: Guilty Plea Fixes Objective Awareness; Exceptional Mitigation for Parental Status Rejected — Commentary on AD [2025] NICA 48 Key takeaways A...
Primitive Access Tracks Are Not “Roads” for EIA Purposes: Definitional Alignment with the EIA Directive and Pleading Discipline in Cummins & Ors v An Coimisiún Pleanála [2025] IEHC 521 Introduction...
R v McNair [2025] EWCA Crim 1376: Testing the Reliability of Deceased Complainant ABE Hearsay Under s116 CJA 2003 Despite Loss of Supporting Witnesses Introduction This decision of the England and...
“Phasing Means Provision”: High Court holds that Local Area Plan phasing must be applied as written; “spirit and intent” and conditions cannot replace section 37(2)(b) where a material contravention...
Civil Service Probation: Primacy of the Appropriate Authority and the “Factually Sustainable Satisfaction” Test – Mosepele v Minister for Justice [2025] IEHC 535 Introduction This High Court judgment...
No Extension, No Leave: Formal, Affidavit‑Grounded Extension of Time as a Pre‑condition to Judicial Review; and an Arguable Jurisdictional Defect Where a Summons Omits the District Court Clerk’s Name...
No Injunction After the Hammer Falls and Strict Re‑Pleading of Defective Counterclaims: Clarifying s.52 LCLRA and Order 21 Rule 9 in McCarthy v Byrne [2025] IEHC 519 Introduction This High Court...
Affirmation Keeps All Obligations Alive: Cumulative Delivery and Net Availability under EXW Instalment Sales Commentary on Advanced Multi-Technology for Medical Industry (t/a Hitex) & Ors v Uniserve...
Foreign non-recognition is a welfare factor, not a bar: Inner House clarifies UNCRC Article 21 and adopts Re N in Scottish adoption law Introduction This commentary examines the Scottish Court of...
No Mitigation Without Nexus: Fresh Psychiatric Evidence on CCRC Reference must Demonstrably Link to the Offending (R v Brogan [2025] EWCA Crim 1208) Introduction In R v Brogan [2025] EWCA Crim 1208,...
No Agency Signature under s.53(1)(b): Corporate Execution Required, and Non‑Compliant Self‑Declared Trusts Cannot Defeat s.423 Transactions-at-Undervalue Introduction In National Iranian Oil Company...
Safeguarding Over Preference in Child Relocation: Abuse Risk and the Feasibility of Ongoing Maternal Involvement Trump Unanimous Child Wishes; Novel “CAMS” Evidence Excluded — PSC v NS [2025] CSOH 90...
From “As Short-Lived as Possible” to “Reasonable Time”: NICA sets the test for Article 8 delay in asylum decisions and re‑states the Salem filter Introduction This commentary analyses the Court of...
Country Guidance on Protection Risk Does Not Preclude Article 8 “Very Significant Obstacles” Claims: Quashing of Section 94 Certification in SV [2025] CSOH 88 Introduction This commentary examines...
“Reconsideration” under the NHS (Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 2009: Limited Remit, Conditional Admission of New Evidence, and Successor Contractors’ Standing to Appeal Case...