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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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Coronial law [2026] NICA 17

Drake, Application for Judicial Review

Drake, Application for Judicial Review [2026] NICA 17 (24 April 2026)

The Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland allowed an appeal over disclosure of an expert report in an inquest, quashing the coroner’s refusal to revoke the notice.

  • Disclosure of expert reports in inquests
  • Litigation privilege
  • Public interest immunity
  • Interpretation of coroners act (northern ireland) 1959
  • Article 2 echr investigative obligations
  • Inquest-disclosure
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Administrative law [2026] NICA 13

Police Service of Northern Ireland v Information Commissioner's Office (Rev1)

Police Service of Northern Ireland v Information Commissioner's Office (Rev1) [2026] NICA 13 (18 March 2026)

Leave to appeal was refused in a FOIA case about an information notice requiring disclosure of material claimed to be legally privileged.

  • Information notices
  • Legal professional privilege
  • Statutory interpretation
  • Appeals process
  • Freedom-of-information
  • Information-notices
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Criminal law [2026] NICA 10

Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Application for Judicial Review (Rev1)

Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Application for Judicial Review (Rev1) [2026] NICA 10 (12 March 2026)

The Court of Appeal upheld an order quashing Robert Clarke’s unlawful 2012 release under the 1998 Act and dismissed his challenge to the 2024 refusal of renewed release.

  • Judicial review
  • Statutory interpretation
  • Early release scheme
  • Life sentences
  • Discretionary remedies
  • Judicial-review
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Administrative law [2026] NICA 11

Belvoir Logistics Ltd & Anor v Driver and Vehicle Agency

Belvoir Logistics Ltd & Anor v Driver and Vehicle Agency [2026] NICA 11 (11 March 2026)

The Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland granted leave to appeal but held the Upper Tier Tribunal had erred only on adverse inference from an after-caution silence, and upheld the regulatory outcome.

  • Adverse inference from silence
  • Operator licensing
  • Good repute of transport managers
  • Regulatory proceedings vs criminal proceedings
  • Right to silence
  • Adverse-inference-from-silence
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Family law [2026] NIFam 4

PC v A Health & Social Care Trust & Anor

PC v A Health & Social Care Trust & Anor [2026] NIFam 4 (09 March 2026)

The court held that repeated delays in Looked After Children reviews breached the mother’s Article 8 rights, but refused damages and granted declaratory relief only.

  • Article 8 echr
  • Care orders
  • Procedural fairness
  • Delay in care planning
  • Declaratory relief
  • Article-8-echr
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Social security law [2025] NICom 29

ST v Department for Communities (ESA) (Good Cause)

ST v Department for Communities (ESA) (Good Cause) [2025] NICom 29 (23 January 2026)

The Commissioner allowed the appeal, finding the claimant had good cause for missing an ESA assessment because her failure stemmed from mental health issues linked to an obsessional trust problem.

  • Employment and support allowance
  • Good cause for non-attendance
  • Mental health and benefits
  • Tribunal procedure
  • Disability discrimination
  • Employment-and-support-allowance
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Public law [2025] NIKB 71

The Children's Law Centre, Re Application for Judicial Review

The Children's Law Centre, Re Application for Judicial Review [2025] NIKB 71 (23 December 2025)

The High Court in Northern Ireland held that section 75 did not require the Department of Finance to conduct a cumulative equality impact assessment at the budget-advice stage.

  • Public sector equality duty
  • Budgetary process
  • Statutory interpretation
  • Equality impact assessment
  • Northern ireland act 1998
  • Section 75 duties
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Administrative law [2025] NIKB 74

Walsh, Application for Judicial Review (Rev2)

Walsh, Application for Judicial Review (Rev2) [2025] NIKB 74 (16 December 2025)

Leave for judicial review was granted on irrationality and ultra vires grounds concerning a victims’ payment refusal, but refused on bias and Article 3 ECHR grounds.

  • Judicial review
  • Bias
  • Ultra vires
  • Interpretation of regulations
  • Article 3 echr
  • Judicial-review
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