Primacy of Causation in Criminal Wasted Costs Orders: No Order Where the Hearing Disposes of the Case or Costs Would Be Incurred Anyway Case: M & M Solicitors v Crown Court at Leicester (wasted...
Newton Hearings Are Part of a Unitary Criminal Trial: High Court refuses mid‑trial judicial review and affirms power to order a de novo Newton hearing following late disclosure Introduction In Nevin...
Robertson v Google LLC: CPR 6.34 permission is prospective; CPR 7.6(3) is the exclusive route for late service out of the jurisdiction; no relief from sanctions and no AoS duty absent valid service...
Adverse Inferences from Witness Silence in Civil Trials and Valuing PTSD Without Specific Guidelines: Commentary on Lynch v Reynolds & Ors [2025] IEHC 527 Court: High Court of Ireland (O’Connor J)...
Standard Method Prevails and Business-Entertainment Block Applies Upfront: Dual‑Use Analysis and the “More Precise” Test in Partial Exemption Hippodrome Casino Ltd v Revenue and Customs [2025] EWCA...
Establishing Ireland’s Anti‑Suit and Anti‑Enforcement Injunction Jurisdiction to Protect Insolvency Proceedings and the Court’s Process Commentary on GTLK Europe DAC (In Liquidation) v Companies Act...
Costs against a sanctioned party: success as the decisive factor; licence‑triggered payment deadlines; and no set‑off against a deferred Supreme Court costs order Introduction This commentary...
Market‑Differential Damages on Buyer Cancellation under SALEFORM 2012: Court of Appeal Confirms Loss‑of‑Bargain Recovery and Implies a Due‑Diligence Delivery Duty Introduction In Orion Shipping and...
Mandatory Engagement with Specific Development Plan Objectives: High Court requires explicit assessment of “practicable and viable” under LCC06 before permitting out‑of‑centre retail (Sherwin...
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...
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:...
“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...
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...