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1 April 2014
Eighty five new judgments in March 2014
In March 2014, 85 new judgments were digested on Stare Decisis Hibernia, of which the most popular topics were:
Asylum and immigration: 10
Banking law: 5
Company law: 7
Contract law: 12
Costs of legal proceedings: 6
Criminal law: 23
Employment law: 5
European law: 5
Personal injuries: 7
Practice and procedure: 23
Rules of evidence: 5
Sentencing: 5
Summary judgment: 7
4 December 2013
Seventy three new judgments in November 2013
In November 2013, seventy three new judgments were digested on Stare Decisis Hibernia, of which the most popular topics were:
Practice and procedure - 17
Asylum and immigration - 15
Contract law - 11
Criminal law - 10
European arrest warrant - 6
Family law - 6
Banking law - 5
Conveyancing and property law - 5
Injunctions - 5
Receivership - 5
Solicitors - 5
Summary judgment - 5
30 September 2013
Ninety eight new judgments in August and September 2013
In August 2013, there were sixty three new judgments digested on Stare Decisis Hibernia, of which the most popular topics were:
Contract law - 12
Practice and procedure - 11
Criminal - 8
Company law - 8
Conveyancing and property - 7
Asylum and immigration - 6
Injunctions - 6
Landlord and tenant - 6
Mortgages - 6
Personal injuries - 6
Banking law - 5
Family law - 5
Receivership - 5
In September 2013, there were thirty five new judgments digested on Stare Decisis Hibernia, of which the most popular topics were:
Judicial review (administrative) - 9
Injunctions - 6
Practice and procedure - 6
Employment law - 4
Mortgages - 4
Planning and development - 4
Receivership - 4
Banking law - 3
Company law - 3
Costs of legal proceedings - 3
To find judgments in your chosen field, see the list of topics on the right hand side of this page (search available to subscribers only).
1 August 2013
Seventy four new judgments digests were published on Stare Decisis Hibernia during July 2013. The most popular topics were:
Judicial review: 26
Practice and procedure: 15
Asylum and immigration: 13
Company law: 8
Contract law: 8
Criminal law: 8
Injunctions: 8
Intellectual property: 5
Mental health law: 5
Solicitors: 5
Banking law: 4
Family law: 4
Landlord and tenant law: 4
Mortgages: 4
To find a judgment of interest to you, see the list of topics at the right-hand-side of this page.
2 July 2013
Sixty six new judgments were digested on Stare Decisis Hibernia during June 2013. The most numerous topics were:
Practice and procedure (19)
Asylum and immigration (19)
Criminal law (10)
Personal injuries (6)
Banking (5)
Company law (5)
Injunctions (5)
Negligence (5)
Solicitors (5)
Employment (3)
Rules of Evidence (3)
4 June 2013
Sixty three new judgments were digested on Stare Decisis Hibernia during May 2013 (as well as 16 new Bills and 3 Acts).
The most popular subjects for judgments were:
Practice and procedure (11)
Asylum and immigration (9)
Banking (7)
Company law (7)
Guarantees (6)
Costs of legal proceedings (6)
Injunctions (5)
9 May 2013
Forty six new judgments of the Irish superior courts were digested on Stare Decisis Hibernia in April 2013, including:
7 on Practice and procedure
7 on Asylum and immigration
6 on Company law
4 on Employment law
4 on Contract law
3 on Landlord and tenant law
3 on Receivership
2 on Personal injuries
To search for the relevant judgments see the list of topics on the right-hand-side of the home page.
4 April 2013
The programme for the 2013 Burren Law School is now available: https://www.burrenlawschool.org
The Burren Law School runs from the 3rd to the 5th of May. The prices is €225, including conference dinner.
2 April 2013
68 new judgments from the Irish superior courts were posted on SDH in March 2013. The most popular topics were:
13 on Asylum and immigration law
11 on Practice and procedure
9 on Criminal law
5 on Company law
5 on Personal injuries
5 on Contract law
5 on Costs of legal proceedings
5 on Assessment of damages
5 on Rules of evidence
4 on European arrest warrant
4 on Employment law
To search for the relevant judgments see the list of topics on the right-hand-side of the home page.
2 April 2013
The following judgment was posted up on the site on 1 April. Unfortunately, it had to be removed on 2 April:
"Circuit Court judges to appear in nude charity calendar
By: Alfred Denning BL, on April 1st, 2013
Minister for Justice v. Judges of the Circuit Court [2013] IESC 999 (Supreme Court, Hefner J, 1 April 2013)
Supreme Court allows appeal from High Court, and discharges injunction restraining Circuit Court judges from appearing naked in charity calendar.
Injunction - judiciary - application for injunction to restrain publication of calendar - proposal that some members of the Circuit Court bench appear in calendar to raise money for worthy causes - proposal that judges be naked or partially naked - suggestion that private parts be discretely obscured by gown, wig, scroll or book - injunction granted by High Court (Whitehouse J) - application moved by Minister for Justice - locus standi - whether Minister had sufficient interest in preventing controversial publication - separation of powers - whether members of the judiciary were employees of Department of Justice or had independent statutory existence - employment law issues - public interest in upholding good name of judiciary - right of Circuit Court judges to ownership of image rights - right to engage in lawful extra-mural activities - relevance of the fact that the calendar was to be sold for charity rather than for profit - relevance of submission that some judges might be more presentable in such a calendar than others - impertinent suggestion from senior counsel that judges of the Supreme Court might similarly disrobe for charity - contempt of court - time-wasting - penalty as to costs.
Quotation from judgment:
"I am in full agreement with the Minister’s view, as expressed on affidavit, that the proposal is “preposterous”. I would go further, and adopt the well-worn phrase "grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented". My brother and sister judges on this court have the same opinion. It will probably compromise the authority of the judges in their own courtrooms, and could make the Irish judiciary a laughing stock abroad if these images were distributed online. But this, unfortunately, is not the point. The Minister has not opened any constitutional or statutory authority that entitles this court to prevent a judge making a spectacle of himself or herself. He has fallen back on the submission that the High Court has full original jurisdiction to regulate the administration of justice in Ireland. Restraining judges from – literally – exposing themselves to ridicule does not fall within that jurisdiction, so we must, reluctantly, allow the appeal from that Court and discharge the injunction."
1 March 2013
Seventy three new judgment digests were posted on Stare Decisis Hibernia in February 2013. Sixty three were posted in January.
The most important topics were:
Asylum and immigration: 12 in February, 13 in January - link.
Employment: 4 in February, 2 in January - link
Criminal law: 5 in February, 2 in January - link
Personal injuries: 7 in February, 3 in January - link
Company law: 6 in February, 3 in January - link
Practice and procedure: 15 in February, 12 in January - link
Probate: 1 in February, 4 in January - link
Costs of legal proceedings: 4 in February, 4 in January - link
25 January 2013
The School of Law, NUI Galway, is hosting a symposium on 8 March 2013 entitled: "Privacy from Birth to Death and Beyond: European and American Perspectives."
Further information available here.
19 April 2012
The University of Limerick law school has launched a web site entitled "Miscarriages of Justice An Irish Perspective".
The site outlines the law on what constitutes a miscarriage of justice, and reviews a number of relevant Irish cases, including: DPP v. Wall; the Nicky Kelly case; and the Kerry Babies case.
Click here to view the site.
16 April 2012
Stare Decisis Hibernia has two new contributors:
Ciaran Joyce BL (Click here for Law Library profile.)
Alan Woods BL (Click here for Law Library profile.)
The shortlist has been announced for the Irish Law Awards (link). Stare Decisis Hibernia has been shortlisted in the category of "Law Book of the Year".
Andrew Robinson BL, host of "The Brief", legal affairs radio show, has been nominated in the category of "Junior Counsel of the Year".
26 March 2012
A small mention of Stare Decisis Hibernia was made in the Irish Times "Law Matters" section (link).
5 March 2012
The theme for this year's Burren Law School has been announced. The theme is "Ireland - Commemoration and Constitution", and it will run from the 4th-6th May 2012. For more information see here.
Stare Decisis Hibernia averaged 505 hits per day in February 2012 (inclusive of weekends). There are now 336 e-mail subscribers and 435 Twitter followers.
Mark Tottenham BL continues to appear weekly on the legal affairs show, "The Brief", on Near 90.3 FM. To listen to podcasts of past shows, click here.
