Sanctions Compliance as a “Wide Net”: Payments Under Confirmed Standby Letters of Credit Are Prohibited When “In Connection With” Aircraft-Lease Arrangements, and SAMLA s44 Shields Against Debt,...
Territorial Revocation Clauses, Lex Domicilii and Foreign Movables: When an Earlier Will Survives for Assets Abroad 1) Introduction The Estate of Patrick Joseph Quinn, Re (Rev1) [2026] IEHC 188...
FOISA s36 (Confidentiality in Legal Proceedings): Legal Professional Privilege can be overridden only by “clear, compelling and specific” public-interest justification Case: The Scottish Ministers...
Stays Pending Judicial Review: Strong Presumption in Favour of Continuing a DSA Investigation, Including “Provider” Scoping 1) Introduction Bytedance Ltd v Coimisiún na Mean and Anor [2026] IEHC 196...
Section 7 Land Registration Act (NI) 1970: Finality of High Court Appeals, Recitals vs Operative Orders, and Exceptional Rights of Audience 1. Introduction In McKeever v Key Property Management Ltd...
Limited Youth Mitigation for Near-Adult Repeat Rape Offending: Concurrency and Totality in Extended Sentences Introduction In [2026] EWCA Crim 486 (Court of Appeal (Criminal Division), Lewis LJ,...
Judicial Review Leave: Bias Allegations Require Evidential Basis; RTB Tribunal “General” Personal Findings May Be Ultra Vires; Hybrid Hearing Access Can Ground Fair-Procedure Leave 1) Introduction In...
Judicial review cannot bypass the trial court where a guilty plea stands: exceptional-case threshold and exhaustion of remedies Case: Benevicius v The Director of Public Prosecutions and Ors...
Community Council Dissolution: Proper-Purpose Limits and the Court’s Refusal of a “Declarator in the Air” 1. Introduction Samantha Kane against Leslie Stewart Waugh and another (Court of Session)...
Whole Life Order as the Norm for a Second Murder: Structured Schedule 21 Analysis and Limited Mitigation for Late Pleas and Personality-Driven Violence 1. Introduction In R v March [2026] EWCA Crim...
Robbery Sentencing: “More than Minimal” Psychological Harm Must Be Evidenced, Not Assumed from an Immediate Victim Impact Statement Case: R v Davies Neutral citation: [2026] EWCA Crim 1085 Court:...
Intermediaries and Jury Requests to Revisit ABE Evidence: Arguable “Unsafety” as the Gatekeeper for Leave to Appeal Case: WG, R. v [2026] EWCA Crim 1086 (CA (Crim Div)) Date: 26 March 2026 Court:...
Planning JR Appeals: No Certificate Where “Design Flexibility” Points Do Not Arise, Are Fact-Application Disguised as Law, and Are Contrary to Finality/Public Interest—Especially for Renewable Energy...
Refusing Adjournment Where an Expert Becomes Unavailable: Proceeding on Existing Reports with a Waiver of Cross‑Examination in Competition Litigation 1) Introduction ER Travel Limited v Dublin...
Certification to Appeal under s.50A(7): A High Threshold Not Met by Fact-Specific “Reasons” Challenges 1. Introduction Phelan Walsh v An Coimisiún Pleanála [2026] IEHC 177 is a High Court decision...
Lawyer-Only Inspection for Confidential Employment Termination Agreements Where Relevance Is Unproven Case People Centre, INC [D/B/A Rippling] and Anor v O'Brien and Ors [No. 3] (Approved) [2026]...
Publication of a Known False Narrative to an Alleged Co‑Conspirator Is Not Defamatory: Strike‑Out Under Amended Order 19 Rule 28 Case: People Centre, INC [D/B/A Rippling] and Anor v O'Brien and Ors...
Settlement Eliminates “Questions Involved”: Joinder Under O.15, r.13 RSC Cannot Add New Causes of Action Case: People Centre, INC [D/B/A Rippling] and Anor v O'Brien and Ors [No. 1] (Approved)...
Solar Farms Do Not Become EIA “Road” Projects Because They Contain Internal Access Tracks: Leave-to-Appeal Questions Must Arise from the Consented Project and Be Truly Legal, Exceptional, and in the...
No “Discoverability” in Defamation: The Two-Year Long-Stop, the Narrow s.11(3A) Extension, and the Limited Role of Fraudulent Concealment 1) Introduction McAndrew-Bergson v Hennelly and Ors...