Judicial review is a court mechanism which allows private individuals to challenge decisions made by Government and any other state body/public authority to the High Court in Belfast. High Court judges have discretion to review a government decision and decide if it is reasonable and/or fair. The criteria for a judicial review challenge is simply…
Neutral Citation No: Judgment: approved by the court for handing down (subject to editorial corrections)* Ref: HUM12178 Delivered: 30/05/2023 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE IN NORTHERN IRELAND ___________ KING’S BENCH DIVISION (JUDICIAL REVIEW) ___________ IN THE MATTER OF AN APPLICATION BY KATHLEEN GRAHAM FOR JUDICIAL…
Judge brands police failures to investigate 1976 murder of Belfast woman Rosaleen O’Kane ‘egregious and inexplicable’ Rosaleen O’Kane, murdered in her north Belfast flat in 1976 Alan Erwin Today at 14:02 Police failures to properly investigate the suspected sectarian murder of a north Belfast woman 47 years ago are “shocking and disgraceful”, the High Court…
PRESS RELEASE High Court Grants Leave for Judicial Review Hearing into Murder of Rosaleen O Kane in North Belfast in 1976 Harte Coyle Collins, Solicitors & Advocates 22nd November 2022 Lawyers for Kathleen Graham & James O Kane, sister and brother of Rosaleen O Kane who was murdered in her flat in North Belfast in…
PRESS RELEASE HARTE COYLE COLLINS SOLICITORS & ADVOCATES PATRICIA BURNS & DANIEL MCCREADY APPLY FOR JUDICIAL REVIEW OF SECRETARY OF STATE COMMAND PROPOSALS 9TH NOVEMBER 2021 Patricia Burns and Daniel McCready, relatives of two victims of the Troubles have applied to the High Court in Belfast for a judicial review of the proposals published by…
The family of Thomas Aquinas Burns have been granted leave by the High Court in Belfast to challenge the original 1973 inquest verdict of “misadventure”. Thomas Burns was shot by a British soldier as he left the Glenpark Social Club in North Belfast on the 12th July 1972. He died from the gunshot the following…
The Court challenge by journalists and producers Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey of their arrests and the searches of their home and business premises is due to commence at the High Court in Belfast tomorrow 28th May 2019 and listed to run before a 2 Judge Court for at least 3 days. The US…
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Harte Coyle Collins, Solicitors & Solicitor Advocates, were today successful in a High Court action pursued to ensure access to all prisons in Northern Ireland for solicitors. The case concerned the refusal to allow a lawyer access to the Young Offenders Centre, Hydebank to consult with a client who wanted to make bail application. The lawyer requested that she would not have to pass by a drugs dog because she suffered from a severe phobia of dogs. The prison refused to acknowledge this phobia, but the High Court has accepted it as genuine. Instead she requested a visit with no physical contact with her client.
