Criminal legal aid is granted to Accused persons on the basis of their lack of financial means and the seriousness of the offence for which they are charged. Case law over the years since the Act was passed in 1962 has added some nuances to why...
Our Courts are clogged with Lay Litigants who are defending Repossession actions , Receiver actions Family law cases. With possession cases the banks and vulture funds now have no option to resort to the law of contempt to look to attach and commit debtors to...
I have been practicing in Personal Injury law for the last 15 years mainly for Plaintiffs. I do a variety of cases from catastrophic injury cases to standard injury board claims. What I've noticed predictably, is that assessments from the injuries board have increased and a lot...
For many years it was open to an Accused person to plead guilty in the District Court in a case were the DPP had elected for jury trial on the basis of the seriousness of the crime or the fact that the Accused person had...
We live in times where it appears that there is an epidemic of people presenting to accident and emergency departments all over Ireland and other health professionals suffering with mental health problems. Healthcare professionals and service users alike complain about lack of resources and wider...
link A recent judgement of with regard to the employer's insolvency fund has resulted in the successful plaintiff obtaining a damages award on the basis of the failure of the Irish government to bring into effect the directive governing companies that have ceased to trade. This...
link Often when a crime is prosecuted there is a victim. Frequently in cases involving personal injury, sexual impropriety and financial crime and in even in the context of the employer/employee relationship. There is a stand alone right to of a victim to pursue the person charged...
link The recent Supreme Court decision in the case of CO'R is insightful as His Honour Judge Charleton has carefully and helpfully reviewed the question of consent as it arises in Irish law both in terms of the legislation, but he has also helpfully categorized the...
O’Higgins report: Wider use of victim impact statements urged: Victim Impact Statements are curently used at sentence stage in the criminal justice process. The idea of using them in the active/post investigation stage is novel. I think we would have to have another constitutional referendum on...
Laws on spent convictions and vetting procedures commence: 'via Blog this' It not often we have time to comment on positive developments in our criminl laws but today is one such day. Certain minor convictions will automatically be expunged and considered spent after a 7 year period....
Laws on spent convictions and vetting procedures commence: 'via Blog this' It not often we have time to comment on positive developments in our criminl laws but today is one such day. Certain minor convictions will automatically be expunged and considered spent after a 7 year period....
Since the enactment of the Companies Act 2014, the District Court now has a role to play where companies and their directors fail to file annual returns on time. Failing to file annual returns are a serious matter in that the Company and the Directors are...
