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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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Criminal law [2025] NICA 34

CD, R. v

CD, R. v [2025] NICA 34 (20 June 2025)

The Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland dismissed an appeal against 29 sexual abuse convictions, holding the jury directions on silence were legally sufficient.

  • Right to silence
  • Jury directions
  • Sexual offences
  • Fair trial
  • Article 6 echr
  • Right-to-silence
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Criminal law [2011] NICC 39

Periera & Anor, R v

Periera & Anor, R v [2011] NICC 39 (20 September 2011)

The Crown Court in Northern Ireland excluded police interview replies after finding the caution was mistranslated in Tetum and did not properly explain the defendants’ rights.

  • Admissibility of police interview evidence
  • Translation of police caution
  • Right to silence
  • Breach of pace code c
  • Criminal-evidence
  • Police-caution
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Criminal law [2011] NICC 11

Kernohan, R.

Kernohan, R. [2011] NICC 11 (15 March 2011)

The court refused an application to discharge the jury, holding the police assurance on legal-consultation surveillance was clear and that mention of silence was not prejudicial.

  • Covert surveillance
  • Privileged legal consultations
  • Right to silence
  • Abuse of process
  • European convention on human rights
  • Jury-discharge
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Criminal law [2008] NICA 22

Orde, Chief Constable of the Police Service Of Northern Ireland v Devlin

Orde, Chief Constable of the Police Service Of Northern Ireland v Devlin [2008] NICA 22 (6 May 2008)

The Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland held that refusing to give police a name and address after arrest did not, without a legal duty to do so, amount to obstruction.

  • Obstruction of police
  • Duty to provide name and address
  • Right to silence
  • Obstruction-of-police
  • Right-to-silence
  • Name-and-address
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Northern Ireland decisions are organised by court, judge, legal area and indexed issue so a practitioner can move from a proposition to a citable authority with the surrounding context intact.

Source links and collection timestamps are retained alongside the indexed records.