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Two cases in the High Court of Chancery in Northern Ireland highlight the activities of those who attempt to introduce into argument, concepts which have no place or efficacy in the legal system. In Santander UK PLC v Scullion and Scullion 2020 NICh 1, McBride J was required to adjudicate on an Order 88 application for […]

One headmaster of BRA said that he judged any crisis in the school by its propensity to set tea cups rattling on their saucers in the living rooms of Jordanstown. The current saga of BRA’s admissions criteria may qualify. Its present Principal went into print early and declared that the school would not use academic […]

The Irish News carried this story on 15th February. ‘A GRAMMAR school is facing a legal challenge over admissions criteria that give priority to children in its fee-paying prep department. It has been claimed that Belfast Royal Academy (BRA) has ignored guidance relating to recommended methods of selecting pupils. With grammar entrance tests cancelled this year, […]

The relevant provision in the Regulations is: Causation of injury 7.—(1) For the purpose of these Regulations, a person’s injury may only be considered to be caused by a Troubles-related incident if it is suffered by that person when—  (a)present at a Troubles-related incident; (b)present in the immediate aftermath of a Troubles-related incident in which a […]

This is important guidance for those who are currently engaged in litigation, particularly litigants in person. https://judiciaryni.uk/sites/judiciary/files/media-files/Covid-19%20-%20Masters%20Composite%20Guidance%20-%20FINAL%20-%2011.08.20.pdf

Readers of the last blog will know that the statistics last week, did not support tales of a pandemic nor did they support the excuse for the Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) which stated in its opening: “These Regulations are made in response to the serious and imminent threat to public health which is posed by […]

The courts in Northern Ireland are now closed , except for pressing business such as the liberty of the citizen or family matters. All actions by mortgagees for possession of property and all disputes between individuals and banks are in suspended animation. Many solicitors have closed and therefore little new litigation is getting under way. […]

This blog is dedicated to Lyra McKee, whom I first met some years ago. I think that she would have enjoyed this. The Goliath Trust was set up in August 2018.  Its objective is “to raise funds to provide targeted extra financial support for schools serving disadvantaged communities in order that educational outcomes in those […]

LAW | COMMENTmarch 25 2019, 12:01am, the times Unqualified, unregulated legal advisers must be stopped colm nugent After a disabled man won £260,000 from a “McKenzie friend” who ruined his medical negligence claim, MPs need to intervene ShareSave Paul Wright was a desperate man in 2008. He had undergone a disastrous NHS operation four years earlier, […]

This judgment underlines the point that the PSNI is not fit to conduct investigations into crimes where the State may be an actor. Its outcome involves all parts of our society. For example, the Parachute Regiment was killing people on the Shankill too. Good work by Paper Trail. Judicial Communications Office 19 March 2019 COURT […]