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Ex parte application for stay of trial is improperly brought
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High Court refuses ex parte application for stay on Circuit Court trial, on the grounds that: (a) where the applicant, within the terms of an Isaac Wunder order, had been granted liberty by the High Court to seek leave to bring judicial review proceedings but with the court having made a specific direction that the application should be made on notice, a further ex parte application could only be entertained in exceptional circumstances; (b) the ex parte application had no connection with the proceedings and the applicant should properly have sought a separate Intended Action record number for each of his proposed judicial reviews and moved on that basis; (c) leave to issue the ex parte application had not been granted; (d) no basis had been demonstrated for a stay in any event; and (e) even if there had been a basis, making the application at such a late stage disqualified it from consideration.
Ex parte application for stay on Circuit Court trial - applicant subject to Isaac Wunder order - High Court gave applicant liberty to apply for leave to issue mandamus proceedings in two separate sets of proposed proceedings, such leave to be sought on notice to the proposed respondents - applicant then, ex parte, sought stay on his trial in the Circuit Court for assault of a member of An Garda Síochána the day before the trial commenced and after the judge in charge of the judicial review list had risen - whether applicant entitled to have his application heard - whether applicant entitled to a stay on his trial.
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