Reasonable Steps Beyond the Etridge Certificate in Spousal Suretyship: Fact-Specific Compliance and the Need for Transaction-by-Transaction Warnings 1. Introduction Excel-A-Rate Business Services Ltd...
Over-Optimistic Sentencing Advice Does Not Normally Vitiate a Guilty Plea: Refusal of Late Conviction Appeal in R v McEvoy [2025] EWCA Crim 1747 1. Introduction R v McEvoy concerned a renewed...
Yellow Card Proportionality: Live Ammunition Unjustified Against a Bottle-Throwing Youth in Public Disorder (Inquest into Desmond Healey) 1. Introduction This decision is a published summary of the...
Refusal to Extend Time to Appeal under Regulation 4(4) Is Not a “s.5 Decision”: No Certificate to Appeal Required 1) Introduction GB v The International Protection Appeals Tribunal and Ors ([2025]...
Pre-Leave Amendments Cannot Evade Section 50 Time Limits: No “Holding” Statement of Grounds in Planning Judicial Review 1. Introduction Moore and Anor v An Coimisiún Pleanála (Approved) [2025] IEHC...
Section 49(7) “Reasons” and the “Something More” Threshold: Training/Community Contribution Arguments May Be Lawfully Rejected Where the Decision Engages and Balances the Common Good 1) Introduction...
Acquittal on Aggravated Burglary Does Not Undermine Conviction for Conspiracy to Rob Where the Offences Have Distinct Mental Elements 1. Introduction Thomas, R. v ([2025] EWCA Crim 1755, 18 December...
Spousal Surety Guarantees in Northern Ireland: Strict “Etridge” Compliance for Enforceability and Priority Case: Bunting & Excel - A Rate Business Services Ltd v Blaney & Anor Neutral citation:...
Totality Must Still Be Applied to Consecutive Sentences for In‑Custody Drug Trafficking Despite Minimal Late Plea Credit 1) Introduction R v Finnegan ([2025] EWCA Crim 1817) concerns sentencing for...
Noori: Deterrent Uplift in False-ID Sentencing Amid Asylum-System Pressures; Full Guilty-Plea Credit Despite Procedural Defects; Deportation Recommendations to Be Used Sparingly 1. Introduction R. v...
Brown, R. v — Pre-offence Messaging as “Facts of the Offence” (CJA 2003, s.98) and “Significant Contribution” Causation in Mixed Trauma/Drug Deaths Citation: [2025] EWCA Crim 1779 | Court: England...
Procedural unfairness in Industrial Tribunal appeals: appellate determination de novo and “panoramic” assessment of overall fairness Case: DD v TT Neutral citation: [2025] NICA 75 (Court of Appeal in...
Ministerial Primacy and De Novo Wiley Balancing in Inquests: Commentary on Secretary of State for Northern Ireland for Judicial Review [2025] UKSC 47 1. Introduction This decision of the United...
Revenue and Customs v Hotel La Tour Ltd: Input VAT on Exempt Fundraising Share Sales and the Limits of VAT Grouping Case: Revenue and Customs v Hotel La Tour Ltd [2025] UKSC 46 Court: United Kingdom...
Sentencing Where a Defendant Crosses the Child/Adult Threshold: “Starting Point at Date of Offence” Is Powerful but Not Determinative; Disparity May Be Explained by Plea Strategy Clarke, R. v [2025]...
Finality of Circuit Appeals and No High Court “Review” After Final Orders (Disclosure Allegations Must Be Raised in-Time or in the Proper Forum) 1) Introduction D.D. v B.B. (Disclosure; Circuit...
Blower v GH Canfield LLP: Pleading Counterfactual Causation and Properly Particularising Conflicts of Interest in Solicitor Negligence Claims Court: England and Wales Court of Appeal (Civil Division)...
R v Brand: Appellate Restraint on Suspension Decisions and Proportionate SHPO Restrictions in Indecent Image Cases 1. Introduction In Brand, R. v ([2025] EWCA Crim 1754), the Court of Appeal...
Concurrent Wrongdoer Defences, Late Amendments and Discovery of Settlement Agreements in Defamation: Commentary on Scallon v The Irish Times Trust Ltd & Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd [2025] IEHC 719 1....
O'Dowd & Ors v McGinley [2025] IEHC 713: Enforcing Guaranteed Returns in Informal Investment Agreements and the Primacy of Evidence in Fraud Damages 1. Introduction This High Court decision,...