R v UCS [2025] EWCA Crim 1411: Half‑Release Confirmed for SOA 2003 s9/s10 and Robust Totality via Lead‑Count Uplift in Multi‑Incident Child Sexual Abuse Introduction This Court of Appeal (Criminal...
R v Plumb [2025] EWCA Crim 1461: Attempted Murder Guideline may be used as a sentencing yardstick for soliciting/encouraging grave offences; no requirement to address Extended Determinate Sentences...
CityJet DAC: Clarifying the Best Interests of Creditors Test, Valuation Timing, and Examiner’s Onus in Examinership Confirmations Introduction In CityJet Designated Activity Company [2025] IEHC 562,...
Special circumstances as a gateway to late IPAT appeals: High Court affirms cumulative test and strict formality for asylum appeals (GB v IPAT [2025] IEHC 543) Introduction In GB v The International...
Brexit Is Not a “Taking Out” Under UCC Article 154: High Court sets RGR clock from pre‑Brexit movement and reinforces strict proof and representation duties Introduction This commentary analyses the...
Intra-Party Nomination Directives Are Non-Justiciable, and the Constitution Cannot Be Unconstitutional: Byrne v The Tánaiste & Ors [2025] IEHC 565 Introduction This High Court judgment, delivered by...
Footwear as “Other Weapon” under Schedule 21: Fairness Prerequisite for Applying the 25‑Year Starting Point Case: Smith, R. v — [2025] EWCA Crim 1421 Court: England and Wales Court of Appeal...
Barnfather: Indefinite SHPOs Require Proportionality—Fixed-Term Order Preferred Where Notification Requirements and Review Needs Make Indefinite Duration Excessive 1. Introduction R v Barnfather...
Post‑Acquittal Restraining Orders: Mandatory Part 31 CrimPR Fair‑Process Compliance (Especially Where No Evidence Is Offered) 1. Introduction Khurshid, R. v ([2025] EWCA Crim 1445, CA (Crim Div), 17...
A strict s.5(2) clock and a substantive s.49 duty: IPAT findings on risk must be expressly weighed in permission-to-remain decisions Introduction In A.B. v International Protection Appeals Tribunal &...
K.W. v M.L.M.: Irish High Court confirms no merits review and narrow grounds to resist enforcement under the 2007 Hague Child Support Convention Introduction This commentary examines the High Court...
Co-defendant Bad Character Evidence under s.101(1)(e) CJA 2003: When School CRIS Reports and Social Media Messages Supply “Substantial Probative Value” and the Required Jury Directions if Allegations...
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...
Undoing Unlawful Re-entry: Clarifying interim possession under section 47(2) and recall standards amid late buy‑out offers in sequestration sales Introduction Decision: Opinion of Lord Richardson,...
QOCS Tender-Delay Exception Clarified: Objective Reasonableness Test and a Non-Variable 75% Cap on Pursuer’s Liability Commentary on Peter Gasper v The Partners of Tain & Fearn Medical Practice and...
The s.34(11)/s.37 Interface Clarified: No Automatic Stay of an Issued Planning Grant Pending An Bord Pleanála Appeal Case: Payne v Meath County Council, Ireland and The Attorney General; Breedon...
Discovery in Modular Trials: Court Files Must Be Accessed via Practice Direction HC86, Not Inter Partes, and Blanket Bankruptcy File Requests Are Impermissible Case: Dunne & Ors v Lehane & Ors...
Public interest costs doctrine consolidated: no-order costs and vacatur across all levels where the State succeeds on a discrete issue of systemic importance — Hegarty v Commissioner of An Garda...
Open justice prevails over speculative harm in criminal appeals: Hartwell [2025] EWCA Crim 1450 Introduction This commentary examines the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)’s decision in Hartwell,...
R v Mwila [2025] EWCA Crim 1425: Totality over Tallying — A Holistic Appellate Approach to Concurrent Sentences for Fatal and Serious-Injury Dangerous Driving, with No Requirement to Quantify...