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Challenge to judicial review time limits was moot
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Court of Appeal dismisses appeal from High Court, and affirms refusal to quash the time limits for judicial review applications, where the applicant had been out of time to bring a challenge to his prosecution before the Special Criminal Court, but did not seek to challenge the time limits until after his conviction, on the grounds that the issue was moot and that no practical outcome could result from the appeal.
Court of Appeal, judicial review, Rules of the Superior Courts, mootness, time limits, Special Criminal Court, right of access to courts, ultra vires, constitutionality, live controversy, judicial discretion, Order 84, Rule 21, Offences Against the State Act 1939, Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997, Dowdall v. Director of Public Prosecutions, Lofinmakin v. Minister of Justice, Equality and Law Reform, adversarial legal system, judicial economy.
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