Certification to Appeal Refused: Fact-Specific Oral-Hearing Fairness Findings in IPAT Appeals Do Not Meet the “Exceptional Public Importance” Threshold 1) Introduction This decision of the High Court...
WFD “Best Available Monitoring Data” Duty and Re-examination of Ireland’s EIA “Preliminary Examination” for Sub-threshold Housing Case: Shorten v An Coimisiun Pleanala and Ors (Approved) [2026] IEHC...
Domestic abuse ABH sentencing: justified uplift and when failure to tick every suspension factor is cured by appellate cross-check 1) Introduction In R v Nagy [2026] EWCA Crim 1120, the Court of...
Section 117C(6): Severe Child Autism and Primary Care Realities Can Amount to “Very Compelling Circumstances”; Limited Role for OASys Risk Predictions Case: Secretary of State for the Home Department...
Cross-examination in Judicial Review where Credibility Drives Standing and Extension of Time 1) Introduction In Z. M. v The Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (Approved) [2026] IEHC...
Section 3 of the 2013 Act: Circuit Court Jurisdiction Turns on Principal Private Residence Status When Proceedings Issue 1) Introduction In [2026] IEHC 529, Ms Justice Marguerite Bolger determined a...
EUTM Online “Targeting” and Irish Jurisdiction: “Reasonable Presumption” Requires Active Conduct, Not Mere Accessibility Case: Easy Group Ltd and Anor v Easy Fundraising Ltd and Anor (Approved)...
Use of a Prior Section 18 Guilty Plea in a Later Murder Trial: When a Special “Previous Conviction” Direction Is Unnecessary Case: Twigg, R. v Neutral citation: [2026] EWCA Crim 1052 Court: Court of...
Without-prejudice settlement communications do not restart the mortgage limitation period under the Statute of Limitations 1957 1) Introduction In Kelly v Fennell & Ors; Havbell Designated Activity...
Voluntary Drug Abuse, High “Retained Responsibility”, and the Appropriateness of a Section 45A Hybrid Life Sentence for Diminished-Responsibility Manslaughter 1) Introduction R v Bauld [2026] EWCA...
MORTGAGEE EXCLUSION IN SECTION 106 AFFORDABLE HOUSING OBLIGATIONS: REGISTERED PROVIDER STATUS TESTED AT MORTGAGE CREATION, NOT AT SALE Case: Westminster City Council v Gems House Residences Chiltern...
Extraterritorial ECHR Jurisdiction and Nationality Decisions: No Article 1 “Jurisdiction” Where an Overseas Applicant Has No UK-Based Private Life or UK Control Over the Person 1. Introduction In R...
Privilege-Hunting as an Abuse of Process: Covertly Targeting an Opponent’s Solicitor Justifies Discharge of Freezing Orders Case: Salinas Pliego & Anor v Astor Asset Management 3 Ltd & Ors [2026]...
Appellate restraint in Quincecare “put on inquiry” findings and demand-based limits on s.35A interest for account reconstitution Case: Moorwand Ltd v Hamblin & Ors Citation: [2026] EWCA Civ 942...
Relevant-date valuation in Scottish divorce: no forced-sale discount or post-date market “prism” for share valuations in trading-stock companies Court: Outer House, Court of Session (Scotland)...
Part 5 “New Matter” Consent Limits the Tribunal’s Article 8 / s.117B(6) Assessment Case: Rahim & Anor v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2026] EWCA Civ 930 Court: Court of Appeal (Civil...
Appellate restraint and documentary “cogency”: discussions of profit share do not establish a redevelopment partnership without a concluded, certain agreement 1) Introduction In EJW Builders Ltd &...
Foreign-Judgment Res Judicata in Ireland: Material Change of Circumstances and Strict Proof of Corporate Privity 1) Introduction This decision of the High Court (Quinn J.) in Ryanair Designated...
Contextual “Life‑Sustaining Treatment” under s.89 ADM(C)A 2015: Jurisdiction, Interim Treatment, and Capacity as a Ground of AHD Invalidity Case: Health Service Executive v MM (A Person Lacking...
Common-law damages for non-penetrative childhood sexual abuse: cumulative injury and trust betrayal, with no separate aggravated award where factors are integrated into compensation Case: Odumosu v...