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Does evidence from a witness in the Witness Protection Programme abridge the rights of the accused? (Part 2 of 2)
A New Approach to the Witness Protection Programme As demonstrated in Part 1,...
Trial by Social Media
Until the age of social media, most democracies had well-established rules for protecting reputations and determining serious allegations, at both...
Four cases on the criminal defences of insanity and diminished responsibility
Clinical Director of CMH entitled to raise concerns about discharge of patient M.C. v. Clinical Director - Central Mental Hospital [2016] IEHC 341...
Personal insolvency arrangements
Under the Personal Insolvency Act 2012, new arrangements were introduced to deal with personal insolvency, so that debtors and creditors did not...
Assessment of damages arising from failure to register title documents
Rosbeg Partners v. LK Shields Solicitors [2018] IESC 23 (Supreme Court, O'Donnell J, 18 April 2018) Property had been purchased in 1994. The...
Could Judges be replaced by algorithms
An algorithm is a set of rules to be followed in problem-solving operations. A computer programme can take a number of variable inputs, follow a...
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Order for sale of lands granted to judgment mortgagee
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Order for possession of mortgaged property affirmed despite borrower’s challenge to lender’s title
The High Court dismissed an appeal by a borrower against a Circuit Court order granting a finance company possession of a residential property due to significant mortgage arrears. The court found that the company had established its entitlement to possession as the legal owner of the mortgage and charge, having demonstrated the existence of the...
Employment status finding set aside as court restores prior decision and makes no order as to costs
The High Court addressed the issue of costs and the final order in a statutory appeal concerning a finding that a pilot was directly employed by an airline for the purposes of the social welfare code. The court determined that the Appeals Officer had erred in law by inferring an implied employment contract where there was no supporting evidence...
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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...
Truly independent guidance from expert witnesses
[This article was originally published in Law Ireland in March 2019] It may normally be assumed that a professional will aim to comply with the...
False and misleading evidence in personal injuries claims
[This article was originally published in Law Ireland in February 2019] Recent news stories suggest that there has been an increase in fraudulent...