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Supreme Court

# supreme-court - Sunday 19 May, 2013

Courts to hold extra September sittings to work through backlog

The Supreme Court and the Court of Criminal Appeal will join the High Court in holding extra sittings to clear a backlog.

# supreme-court - Monday 13 May, 2013

Dublin City Council: We’ve acted in the best interests of Priory Hall residents

The council has re-released a statement issued last week in response to criticism of its handling of the situation which has seen hundreds of former Priory Hall residents living in temporary accommodation since 2011.

# supreme-court - Saturday 11 May, 2013

Shatter offers olive branch to lawyers over appointment of new regulators

The Minister for Justice says he will allow other bodies to nominate members of the new legal services regulator.

Priory Hall in ruins as residents left ‘in limbo’

Images show how the vacant complex continues to deteriorate.

# supreme-court - Thursday 9 May, 2013

Clarity sought after ‘Registered Employment Agreements’ deemed unconstitutional

Government has been called on to outline the impact that today’s Supreme Court decision will have on both employees and employers.

Priory Hall: “They’ve already tried to put us on the streets once, they can’t try it again”

The Supreme Court today adjourned a decision on whether Dublin City Council must continue to pay accommodation costs for Priory Hall residents until October.

# supreme-court - Tuesday 7 May, 2013

The 5 at 5: Tuesday

5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…

Alan Shatter and The Supremes: New judges to deal with courts backlog

The government has approved the appointment of two extra judges to the Supreme Court to deal with the current backlogs, some as long as four years.

Dublin City Council back in court over Priory Hall debacle

The local authority wants the Supreme Court to overturn an earlier decision which sees it pay for the temporary accommodation of the displaced residents.

# supreme-court - Monday 6 May, 2013

A new Vice President, and other things that happen if the Seanad is scrapped

We have a look at how the constitution may need rewriting if the second House of the Oireachtas is binned.

# supreme-court - Friday 3 May, 2013

Flashback: Pro-life and pro-choice campaigners clash in 1992

Photocall Ireland has dug out this photo from the archives showing how abortion has remained divisive over the decades.

# supreme-court - Thursday 2 May, 2013

Committee to decide if advocacy groups should attend abortion law hearings

Public hearings on the draft of the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013 are likely to take place later this month.

# supreme-court - Tuesday 30 April, 2013

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PICS: Cabinet meets protester on way into crucial meeting on abortion

Some awkward glances at protester Eamon Reid as members of the Cabinet arrived at Government Buildings this morning.

Your Say This post contains a poll

Poll: Should the government legislate for assisted suicide with safeguards?

Yesterday, Marie Fleming was told in the Supreme Court that her ‘right to die’ appeal was being dismissed – but a judge said that the Oireachtas could legislate to deal with cases such as this.

Supreme Court: Ireland has a right to life, not a right to die

There was standing-room only in the small courtroom on Monday morning as the 7 judges ruled that Marie Fleming, who has MS, did not have the right to end her own life with help from her partner.

# supreme-court - Monday 29 April, 2013

Gerry Adams: ‘Sinn Féin is not a pro-abortion party’

The Sinn Féin president has called on the government to publish proposed legislation dealing with the X Case.

The 5 at 5: Monday

5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…

Supreme Court dismisses Marie Fleming’s ‘right to die’ appeal

Chief Justice Susan Denham said the circumstances were “very tragic” but that there was no Constitutional ‘right to die’.

# supreme-court - Thursday 25 April, 2013

Supreme Court to deliver verdict in ‘right to die’ case next week

The court will deliver a verdict in the case of Marie Fleming who is seeking to overturn the ban on assisted suicide.

# supreme-court - Friday 19 April, 2013

Dissident republican McKevitt loses appeal over conviction on Real IRA membership

Michael McKevitt fails in a bid to have his conviction overturned because of evidence obtained under an unconstitutional warrant.

# supreme-court - Monday 15 April, 2013

PSNI to be given access to Dolours Price interviews

The US Supreme Court appeal of Boston College’s Belfast Project was rejected today.

# supreme-court - Wednesday 27 March, 2013

US Supreme Court tackles law on benefits for same-sex marriage couples

83-year-old Edith Windsor was ordered to pay federal inheritance taxes of $363,000 following the 2009 death of Thea Spyer, her partner of more than 40 years.

IN NUMBERS: US same-sex marriage

Yesterday, justices in the US Supreme Court heard arguments on whether same-sex couple have a constitutional right to marry.

# supreme-court - Tuesday 12 March, 2013

Jill Meagher accused denies murder, pleads guilty to rape

Adrian Ernest Bayley, 41, also pleaded not guilty to two separate rape charges.

# supreme-court - Wednesday 6 March, 2013

European Court of Human Rights to hear Cork woman’s abuse case

Louise O’Keeffe claims that the State is liable for abuse she suffered at the hands of a school principal in Kinsale, Co Cork in the 1970s.

# supreme-court - Monday 4 March, 2013

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Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach’s salary undermines his agenda

In a wide-ranging interview with TheJournal.ie, the Sinn Féin president also revealed which government policies his party actually supports and explained why Croke Park II is a bad deal.

# supreme-court - Friday 1 March, 2013

Action on X group plans rally to mark 21st anniversary of case

The campaign group wants to put pressure on the government to legislate for abortion in Ireland under the terms of the controversial and divisive judgement in the Supreme Court X Case.

# supreme-court - Tuesday 26 February, 2013

‘Right-to-die’ appeal to be heard by Supreme Court today

Marie Fleming, who has multiple sclerosis, wants to overturn the laws which make it a criminal offence to help someone take their own life.

# supreme-court - Saturday 23 February, 2013

Obama administration asks Supreme Court to strike down existing marriage law

The 1996 law defines marriage exclusively as a union between a man and a woman.

# supreme-court - Wednesday 20 February, 2013

Supreme Court rejects TDs application to join promissory note challenge

Five Deputies applied to join businessman David Hall’s challenge to the payment of promissory notes, saying it was in the public interest for the case to go ahead.

# supreme-court - Tuesday 19 February, 2013

Ireland’s judges incur €1.67 million in expenses for 2012

Most of the expenses, which are down 42 per cent on 2008, were incurred in travel and subsistence.

# supreme-court - Thursday 7 February, 2013

Supreme Court adjourns promissory note appeal as TDs seek to join case

David Hall says his case concerns issues wider than that of the €3.06 billion payment due in March that now appears unlikely following the liquidation of IBRC overnight.

Legality of promissory note to be challenged in the Supreme Court today

David Hall’s legal challenge to the €3.06 billion Anglo promissory note was dismissed by the High Court last week but he intends to appeal to the Supreme Court this morning despite the overnight developments.

# supreme-court - Monday 21 January, 2013

Your Say This post contains a poll

Poll: Should the ‘risk of suicide’ be included in abortion legislation?

Junior Minister Lucinda Creighton has said a bill including the ‘risk of suicide’ could open the floodgates. But do you think it should be included in legislation for the X Case?

Creighton has ‘grave reservations’ about suicide risk in any X Case law

The junior minister is drafting her own bill which excludes the risk of suicide from legislation that will comply with the Supreme Court ruling in the X Case.

# supreme-court - Wednesday 16 January, 2013

The Evening Fix… now with added ice hockey humiliation

Here are the things we learned, loved and shared today.

Column: Legal clarity needed after Marie Fleming ‘right to die’ verdict

By not ordering the DPP to issue guidelines on factors which would influence a prosecution for carrying out an assisted suicide, Marie Fleming and others in her situation have been left in legal limbo, writes Dr Eimear Spain.

‘Right to die’ challenge to go to the Supreme Court

Marie Fleming, who has multiple sclerosis, is to take her court case to the Supreme Court after she lost a High Court case on the ban on assisted suicide.

# supreme-court - Saturday 12 January, 2013

13 things we learned from the Oireachtas abortion hearings this week

Three days of hearings on abortion were held by the Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children this week ahead of expected and long-awaited legislation for the X Case.

# supreme-court - Tuesday 8 January, 2013

Psychiatrists at odds over effects of any X Case legislation

TDs and Senators have heard from a number of psychiatrists who spoke at length about the issue of suicide in any legislation for the X Case.

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