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Admiralty law [2025] IEHC 493

Virgin Media Wholesale Ltd v Owners and All Persons Claiming and Interest in the Lida Suzanna (Approved)

Virgin Media Wholesale Ltd v Owners and All Persons Claiming and Interest in the Lida Suzanna (Approved) [2025] IEHC 493 (18 September 2025)

High Court admiralty judgment over alleged damage to the Sirius South subsea cable by the Lida Suzanna. The claim was dismissed because ownership was not proved.

  • Ownership of property
  • Proof of loss
  • Causation
  • Contributory negligence
  • Jurisdiction
  • Maritime lien
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Criminal law [2025] IESC 32

The Director of Public Prosecutions v JS (Approved)

The Director of Public Prosecutions v JS (Approved) [2025] IESC 32 (11 July 2025)

The Supreme Court held that the prosecution appeal under s.23 was permissible and the evidence was wrongly excluded, but it set aside the retrial and affirmed the acquittal.

  • Admissibility of evidence
  • Prosecution appeals after acquittal
  • Judicial discretion
  • Compelling evidence
  • Retrial orders
  • Admissibility-of-evidence
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Criminal law [2024] IESC 36

Director of Public Prosecutions (at the suit of Garda Robert O'Grady) v Robert Hodgins (Approved)

Director of Public Prosecutions (at the suit of Garda Robert O'Grady) v Robert Hodgins (Approved) [2024] IESC 36 (29 July 2024)

The Supreme Court held that a breath-analysis statement was not duly completed where the Garda signed after the defendant, and declined to overrule Freeman.

  • Admissibility of evidence
  • Statutory compliance
  • Road traffic offences
  • Precedent and stare decisis
  • Road-traffic-offences
  • Admissibility-of-evidence
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Banking law [2022] IECA 217

Feniton Property Financial DAC & Anor v McCool (Unapproved)

Feniton Property Financial DAC & Anor v McCool (Unapproved) [2022] IECA 217 (06 October 2022)

Court of Appeal upheld summary judgment on a debt claim but remitted the quantum of the debt and a guarantee-construction issue to plenary hearing.

  • Summary judgment
  • Hearsay evidence
  • Bankers' books evidence
  • Assignment of debt
  • Guarantees
  • Business records admissibility
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Criminal law [2022] IECA 182

Director of Public Prosecutions v Smyth & McAreavey (Approved)

Director of Public Prosecutions v Smyth & McAreavey (Approved) [2022] IECA 182 (28 July 2022)

The Court of Appeal dismissed appeals against convictions arising from an attempted murder and assisting an offender, upholding the admission of telephone evidence.

  • Admissibility of evidence
  • Privacy rights
  • Assisting an offender
  • Statutory interpretation
  • Procedural autonomy
  • Data retention
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Criminal law [2022] IESC 29

The Director of Public Prosecutions v McDonald (Approved)

The Director of Public Prosecutions v McDonald (Approved) [2022] IESC 29 (30 June 2022)

The Supreme Court held that blood samples taken with consent after access to legal advice were not unlawfully obtained, and the conviction stood.

  • Admissibility of forensic evidence
  • Right to legal advice
  • Self-incrimination
  • Consent to forensic sampling
  • Fair trial rights
  • Forensic-evidence
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Criminal law [2022] IECA 4

Director of Public Prosecutions v O'Driscoll (Unapproved)

Director of Public Prosecutions v O'Driscoll (Unapproved) [2022] IECA 4 (17 January 2022)

The Court of Appeal upheld a murder conviction, rejecting claims that video-link evidence and an intermediary for a brain-injured witness made the trial unfair.

  • Video link evidence
  • Intermediary for vulnerable witness
  • Mental disorder definition
  • Fair trial rights
  • Video-link-evidence
  • Intermediary-witness
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Criminal law [2021] IESC 31_2

Director of Public Prosecutions v Hannaway (Approved)

Director of Public Prosecutions v Hannaway (Approved) [2021] IESC 31_2 (04 May 2021)

The Supreme Court held that authorised surveillance recordings were admissible and that s.10 of the 2009 Act did not require separate Ministerial approval for trial use.

  • Admissibility of evidence
  • Statutory interpretation
  • Surveillance
  • Privacy rights
  • Exclusionary rule
  • Surveillance-evidence
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Criminal law [2020] IECA 304

Director of Public Prosecutions v Malai (Unapproved)

Director of Public Prosecutions v Malai (Unapproved) [2020] IECA 304 (11 November 2020)

The Court of Appeal held that procedural breaches about interpreter records did not make the detention unlawful and did not automatically bar breath sample evidence.

  • Interpretation and translation rights
  • Admissibility of evidence
  • Unlawful detention
  • Road traffic offences
  • Procedural breaches
  • Interpreter-rights
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Criminal law [2020] IECA 108

Director of Public Prosecutions v Byrne, Farrelly and Byrne (Approved)

Director of Public Prosecutions v Byrne, Farrelly and Byrne (Approved) [2020] IECA 108 (20 April 2020)

The Court of Appeal dismissed appeals arising from a tiger kidnapping conviction, upholding admission of mobile phone data, search-warrant evidence, XRY analysis, and witness cross-examination.

  • Admissibility of evidence
  • Exclusionary rule
  • Privacy rights
  • Search warrants
  • Hearsay
  • Circumstantial evidence
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