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Administrative-law [2025] NIKB 65

The Department of Justice v Phoenix Law Solicitors

The Department of Justice v Phoenix Law Solicitors [2025] NIKB 65 (10 October 2026)

The High Court held that exceptional preparation funding under Northern Ireland legal aid rules may cover work done before the certificate, if contemporaneous records and other safeguards are met.

  • Legal-aid-certificates
  • Exceptional-preparation-payments
  • Retrospective-application-of-legal-aid-rules
  • Statutory-interpretation
  • Costs-assessment
  • Legal-aid
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Administrative-law

In the matter of an application by BREANDÁN MacCIONNAITH for leave to apply for judicial review and in the matter of a determination by the Parades Commission for Northern Ireland

Leave to apply for judicial review was refused over a Parades Commission determination concerning a Drumcree parade and the Garvaghy Road route.

  • Judicial-review
  • Parades-commission-determination
  • Public-processions
  • Convention-rights-balancing
  • Reasons-for-decision
  • Rationality-review
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Coroners-law

In the matter of an inquest touching upon the death of Lee Gannon

The inquest found Lee Gannon died from lobar pneumonia and sepsis. NIAS incorrectly triaged the initial call and failed to re-triage later deterioration, delaying ambulance response.

  • Cause-of-death
  • Ambulance-dispatch-categorisation
  • Delayed-ambulance-response
  • Failure-to-re-triage-repeat-calls
  • Sepsis-and-pneumonia
  • Inquests
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Criminal-law

THE KING v ZX

Fowler J sentenced ZX for infanticide and attempted murder after guilty pleas, imposed a global 10-year determinate sentence, and found she was not dangerous.

  • Infanticide
  • Attempted-murder
  • Sentencing
  • Dangerousness
  • Reporting-restrictions
  • Plea-reduction
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Public-law

In the matter of an application by Gary and Sean Anderson for leave to apply for judicial review of the decision by the Prison Service of Northern Ireland to refuse to allow the applicants compassionate temporary release

The court granted Gary Anderson leave, quashed the refusal of compassionate temporary release, and ordered release for his father's funeral. Sean Anderson's challenge was refused.

  • Compassionate-temporary-release
  • Article-8-echr-proportionality
  • Judicial-review-of-prison-governor-decisions
  • Wednesbury-unreasonableness
  • Murder-sentence-prisoners
  • Judicial-review
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Criminal-law

The King v John McDevitt

The Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland dismissed a CCRC reference in John McDevitt’s murder case, holding that Latimer material did not make the convictions unsafe.

  • Safety-of-conviction
  • Fresh-evidence
  • Confessions/admissions
  • Police-interview-misconduct
  • Disclosure
  • Historic-conviction
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Family-law

In the Matter of AW

The court set out a checklist for deciding whether a patient’s compensation award should be invested out of court via an Enduring Power of Attorney.

  • Capacity-to-manage-property-and-affairs
  • Enduring-power-of-attorney
  • Investment-of-compensation-funds
  • Controller-appointments
  • Court-supervision-of-attorney-accounts
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