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Criminal law [2025] NIKB 61

JR344, Application for Judicial Review

JR344, Application for Judicial Review [2025] NIKB 61 (18 November 2025)

The court refused leave on an Article 22 child-publicity ground, but granted leave on an arguable Article 8 privacy claim involving alleged jigsaw identification from a PSNI press release.

  • Jigsaw identification
  • Article 22 criminal justice (children) (northern ireland) order 1998
  • Article 8 echr
  • Privacy of minors in criminal proceedings
  • Press releases and identification
  • Judicial review procedure
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Immigration law [2025] NICA 46

JR 247 v Secretary of State for the Home Department

JR 247 v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2025] NICA 46 (30 September 2025)

The Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland dismissed an appeal challenging delay in an asylum decision, holding the Article 8 issue was fact-sensitive and the claim was academic.

  • Delay in asylum decision
  • Article 8 echr
  • Human rights act 1998 section 6
  • Judicial review procedure
  • Salem principle (academic appeals)
  • Asylum-delay
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Public law [2023] NIKB 91

JR241, Re Application for Judicial Review

JR241, Re Application for Judicial Review [2023] NIKB 91 (19 September 2023)

The High Court in Northern Ireland dismissed a judicial review challenge to the Trust’s decision to stop funding nursery day care for two children.

  • Procedural fairness
  • Consultation requirements
  • Child in need
  • Statutory duties of social services
  • Judicial review procedure
  • Judicial-review
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Administrative law [2023] NIKB 80

Stevenson & Ors, Application for Judicial Review (Re Costs)

Stevenson & Ors, Application for Judicial Review (Re Costs) [2023] NIKB 80 (18 July 2023)

The court made no order as to costs in a judicial review that resolved at the leave stage, applying the Northern Ireland practice against inter partes costs orders.

  • Judicial review procedure
  • School admissions
  • Statutory process for school closure
  • Costs in judicial review
  • Judicial-review-costs
  • School-admissions
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Immigration law [2023] NIKB 76

Sangermano, Application for Judicial Review (Re Deportation Order; Immigration (EEA) Regulation 2016, 37(1); Adoption Act 1958, s19(1))

Sangermano, Application for Judicial Review (Re Deportation Order; Immigration (EEA) Regulation 2016, 37(1); Adoption Act 1958, s19(1)) [2023] NIKB 76 (14 July 2023)

Leave for judicial review was refused in a deportation case. The court held the application was out of time, the applicant was not shown to be a British citizen, and an alternative appeal existed.

  • Deportation
  • British citizenship
  • Adoption and nationality
  • Discrimination
  • Right of abode
  • Judicial review procedure
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Administrative law [2023] NIKB 62

JR253, Application for Judicial Review (Rev1)

JR253, Application for Judicial Review (Rev1) [2023] NIKB 62 (23 May 2023)

Leave for judicial review was refused in a challenge to school amalgamation proposals, because the complaint targeted admissions criteria not yet set and not for the Department.

  • School amalgamation
  • Admissions policy
  • Equality duties
  • Rural needs
  • Judicial review procedure
  • School-amalgamation
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Administrative law [2023] NIKB 41

No Gas Caverns Ltd & Anor, Application for Judicial Review

No Gas Caverns Ltd & Anor, Application for Judicial Review [2023] NIKB 41 (31 March 2023)

The court dismissed interlocutory judicial review applications seeking to strike out affidavit evidence and to obtain unredacted legal material on privilege grounds.

  • Admissibility of evidence
  • Legal professional privilege
  • Judicial review procedure
  • Disclosure
  • Environmental licensing
  • Judicial-review-procedure
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Administrative law [2023] NICA 13

Renewable Heat Association & Anor, Re Application for Judicial Review

Renewable Heat Association & Anor, Re Application for Judicial Review [2023] NICA 13 (21 February 2023)

The Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland upheld changes to Renewable Heat Incentive tariffs, rejecting vires, legitimate expectation, and A1P1 challenges.

  • Legitimate expectation
  • Right to peaceful enjoyment of property (a1p1 echr)
  • Lawfulness of retrospective legislative changes
  • State aid rules
  • Tariff regulation
  • Government schemes
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Public law [2022] NIKB 33

Smyth, Re Application for Judicial Review

Smyth, Re Application for Judicial Review [2022] NIKB 33 (09 December 2022)

The High Court refused leave for judicial review over Kilcranny House temporary release, holding there was no duty to issue a written policy and the claim was academic.

  • Temporary release policy
  • Prisoner rights
  • Judicial review procedure
  • Judicial-review
  • Prison-law
  • Temporary-release
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Public law [2022] NICA 24

Leszkiewicz v Secretary of State for the Home Department

Leszkiewicz v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2022] NICA 24 (06 May 2022)

Appeal in judicial review proceedings over alleged unlawful detention. The Court of Appeal granted leave, but did not decide the merits, and ordered the case to continue as if begun by writ.

  • Unlawful detention
  • Judicial review procedure
  • Alternative remedies
  • Deprivation of liberty
  • Judicial-review
  • Unlawful-detention
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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.