Croke Park to host criminal trials during first three months of 2021
Trials will be held in conference facilities at the GAA venue from mid-January.
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Trials will be held in conference facilities at the GAA venue from mid-January.
95,000 summonses are currently backlogged in the system.
The two judges were set to meet to discuss the ongoing fallout over the Golfgate dinner.
Chief Justice Frank Clarke said detailed planning is set to progress cases of all types to be heard from late August and through September.
It was announced yesterday that sittings would only be two hours long, but on foot of new advice that is set to change.
The Courts Service were “unaware” until yesterday that the issue was discussed in the Dáil.
Hearings have been scaled back in recent weeks following the introduction of physical distancing guidelines.
The Courts Service said that the measures aim to “promote health, yet maintain rights.”
The move comes after legal professionals expressed concern about overcrowding at the Criminal Courts of Justice yesterday.
The decision was made to avoid the “over concentration of people in one room or place”.
The Courts Service said the presence of females on the bench has increased greatly in Ireland over the past 25 years.
The Courts Service has called for the further reform of the court fines system.
Awards in medical negligence cases in the High Court were also down last year.
Justice Frank Clarke says the direction is about ensuring fair trials.
Critics state the Courts Services continued investment in the tobacco industry flies in the face of the government’s Tobacco Free Ireland vision.
The integrated court complex has been hampered in delays for years.
46-year-old Richard Burbridge committed the offences while operating a courier contract for the Courts Service.
The biggest award given in the courts last year was €9 million.
The Charities Regulator sold off its shares this year.
6,616 people have been committed to prison thus far in 2016 for non-payment of fines.
Using previously unpublished data, FactCheck steps in to referee a heated dispute between the Law Society and the insurance industry.
Meanwhile, the District Court dealt with 12,000 drugs offences and 30,000 public order offences in 2015.
That’s what the Child Care Law Reporting Project is asking.
62% of the cases that appear before the District Court relate to road traffic offences, which is little change from the year previous.
“Up to 60 people were involved in a wholesale chaotic brawl, fisticuffs and dangerous scenes of violence.”
Exactly one third of judges in the country are women.
The President of the Court said it is their goal to keep up to date with current appeals as far as reasonably possible.
One judge cost the state €45,222 in expenses.
A plan to close them has been shelved.
Road tax penalties, debt collectors, tax credit cuts have all been floated to deal with traffic fines.
The poor box has been in existence since before the foundation of the State.
The videos, by the Ombudsman for Children and the Courts Service, offer advice on the workings of a family law court and the process of a separation.
The ‘Poor Box’ option can be used by judges for a variety of reasons, including cases where a conviction might be inappropriate or adversely affect employment.
The figures are contained in the latest volume of the Child Care Law Reporting Project, which also details several high-profile cases.
The 61-year-old will be laid to rest this afternoon.
The courthouse is expected to expand visitor numbers to Kilmainham Gaol.
The figures for 2012 were laid out in today’s Annual Report from the Courts Service.
Chief Justice Susan Denham said today that a “trail of devastation winds its way into our courts daily”.
The vast majority of cases heard in Irish courts were related to road-traffic offences.