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Lender not precluded by agreement from registering judgment mortgage.
Supreme Court dismisses appeal from decision of High Court, and affirms decision to grant well-charging order over land subject to judgment mortgage.
Irwin v. Deasy – Judgment mortgage, registered land, sale in lieu of partition
Supreme Court dismisses appeal against decision of High Court (Laffoy J) holding that court did not have jurisdiction or power to make an order for sale in lieu of partition at the suit of a judgment mortgagee of registered land.
Twelve years of Decisis.ie – 12,754 law reports
Decisis.ie started in January 2011, as 'Stare Decisis Hibernia'. At that time,...
Human rights and a different path in law: Liam Herrick from the ICCL
Liam Herrick is the Executive Director of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, an Irish non-profit organisation dedicated to supporting the civil...
Expert witness issues – June update
UK Post Office prosecutions - a failure of disclosure. Recently, one of the largest miscarriages of justice in UK history came to a head when about...
Remote swearing of affidavits
As a result of COVID-19 many industries and professions have had to rethink the manner in which they conduct their business; the legal profession...
Remote hearings: the highlights
Remote hearings have provided endless entertainment during the past year. The world’s legal profession, notoriously lacking in tech savvy, were...
Defamation through the ages
Defamation cases are often premised on strange and unusual facts. In the recent case of Parcel Connect Ltd t/a Fastway Couriers and A&G Couriers...
Popular Judgments
Lack of legal representation at trial not a sufficient basis to allow appeal against order for possession
High Court, by way of a Circuit Court appeal against an order for possession...
Priority between creditors could not be determined in the absence of one of them
High Court refuses application by creditors over registered land to amend...
Receiver was validly appointed by deed under seal pursuant to mortgage deeds
Court of Appeal dismisses appeal of High Court order for possession of...
Applicant secures costs after unreceived email leads to quashing of inadmissibility decision
The High Court awarded costs to the applicant following judicial review proceedings in which a decision declaring the applicant's international protection claim inadmissible was quashed by consent. The key issue was whether the applicant, who had not received critical correspondence due to a technical email delivery failure, should bear his own...
Application to strike out pleas in commercial property damages inquiry refused amid complex ownership and agency issues
The High Court refused an application by a property holding company and related entities to strike out four specific pleas from the defence of the plaintiffs in a complex, long-running dispute regarding damages owed following the lifting of an interlocutory injunction. The court determined that the disputed pleas, which raised issues relating to...
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The Archives Act, Data Protection and the GDPR: Do Garda PULSE records amount to a historic account?
Although now 3 years in operation, the GDPR remains as much a mystery to many as it did when it was first introduced. Data protection has become...
A letter from a judge to a teenager
(Originally published in Decisis Law Ireland in 2017) It is not often that judgments of the superior courts of any country go ‘viral’ online. They...
Law on Trial podcast covering legal issues in Ireland and beyond
A new legal affairs podcast called Law on Trial has been launched by the Business Post. Law on Trial is hosted by Mark Tottenham BL, editor of...
“Child-friendly” Judgments and Beyond: Simple Language in the Superior Courts
Introduction It's hard to recall the number of times I was told as a student to avoid legalese at all costs. I was advised that it only complicates...