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# courts-service - Saturday 11 July, 2020
Courts gearing up to expand sittings with new plans to deal with the 'growing backlog of cases'
Chief Justice Frank Clarke said detailed planning is set to progress cases of all types to be heard from late August and through September.
# courts-service - Thursday 21 May, 2020
Full court sittings set to resume tomorrow
It was announced yesterday that sittings would only be two hours long, but on foot of new advice that is set to change.
# courts-service - Wednesday 20 May, 2020
Court sessions limited to two hours a day, due to 'additional' safety measures
The Courts Service were “unaware” until yesterday that the issue was discussed in the Dáil.
# courts-service - Thursday 9 April, 2020
Courts to increase number of video sittings to overcome Covid-19 restrictions
Hearings have been scaled back in recent weeks following the introduction of physical distancing guidelines.
# courts-service - Wednesday 25 March, 2020
Courts introduce 'unprecedented' measures to better adhere to social distancing rules
The Courts Service said that the measures aim to “promote health, yet maintain rights.”
# courts-service - Tuesday 24 March, 2020
Criminal Courts to 'further stagger' start times for cases after overcrowding outside courtroom
The move comes after legal professionals expressed concern about overcrowding at the Criminal Courts of Justice yesterday.
# courts-service - Friday 13 March, 2020
Covid-19: Irish courts to only hear 'urgent cases' in the coming weeks
The decision was made to avoid the “over concentration of people in one room or place”.
# courts-service - Thursday 16 January, 2020
Supreme Court sits with highest proportion of female judges on bench ever
The Courts Service said the presence of females on the bench has increased greatly in Ireland over the past 25 years.
# courts-service - Thursday 2 January, 2020
Drivers who don't pay fines shouldn't be able to renew motor tax, says Courts Service
The Courts Service has called for the further reform of the court fines system.
# courts-service - Monday 8 July, 2019
'It's time we called out the insurance industry': Courts figures show drop in number of personal injury cases
Awards in medical negligence cases in the High Court were also down last year.
# courts-service - Saturday 17 November, 2018
Only journalists and lawyers to be allowed text and tweet in court says Ireland's top judge
Justice Frank Clarke says the direction is about ensuring fair trials.
# courts-service - Sunday 29 July, 2018
Courts Service of Ireland reduces shares in Big Tobacco, but still holds €4.5m worth in stocks
Critics state the Courts Services continued investment in the tobacco industry flies in the face of the government’s Tobacco Free Ireland vision.
# courts-service - Sunday 22 July, 2018
Minister keen to give Smithfield family court complex the green light
The integrated court complex has been hampered in delays for years.
# courts-service - Tuesday 10 October, 2017
Man who stole €76,000 in welfare payments while running a successful courier business avoids jail
46-year-old Richard Burbridge committed the offences while operating a courier contract for the Courts Service.
# courts-service - Wednesday 26 July, 2017
Sharp increase in personal injury suits with almost 22,000 filed last year
The biggest award given in the courts last year was €9 million.
# courts-service - Monday 3 July, 2017
Courts Service of Ireland still holds €6 million worth of shares in tobacco companies Exclusive
The Charities Regulator sold off its shares this year.
# courts-service - Monday 28 November, 2016
Nearly €36 million in court fines unpaid in last four years
6,616 people have been committed to prison thus far in 2016 for non-payment of fines.
# courts-service - Sunday 27 November, 2016
FactCheck: Are motor insurance claims and legal fees going up or down?
Using previously unpublished data, FactCheck steps in to referee a heated dispute between the Law Society and the insurance industry.
# courts-service - Tuesday 12 July, 2016
There has been a jump in divorce cases, with more women than men applying
Meanwhile, the District Court dealt with 12,000 drugs offences and 30,000 public order offences in 2015.
# courts-service - Tuesday 1 September, 2015
Are Ireland's children in care subject to a "geographic lottery"?
That’s what the Child Care Law Reporting Project is asking.
# courts-service - Tuesday 14 July, 2015
Fewer people are being taken to court for drink driving offences
62% of the cases that appear before the District Court relate to road traffic offences, which is little change from the year previous.
# courts-service - Friday 13 February, 2015
Calls for Portlaoise Courthouse to be moved after 'mass gurrier brawl'
“Up to 60 people were involved in a wholesale chaotic brawl, fisticuffs and dangerous scenes of violence.”
# courts-service - Tuesday 2 December, 2014
The number of female judges has hit a record high
Exactly one third of judges in the country are women.
# courts-service - Wednesday 5 November, 2014
Court of Appeal sits for the first time, but they already have a 'ready-made backlog'
The President of the Court said it is their goal to keep up to date with current appeals as far as reasonably possible.
# courts-service - Thursday 16 October, 2014
Judges claim €1.67 million in expenses - But who cost the most?
One judge cost the state €45,222 in expenses.
# courts-service - Monday 22 September, 2014
Swords, Balbriggan, Tallaght and Dún Laoghaire - You're keeping your courthouses
A plan to close them has been shelved.
# courts-service - Friday 25 July, 2014
Justice Minister adds to calls for 'imaginative' solution to court backlogs
Road tax penalties, debt collectors, tax credit cuts have all been floated to deal with traffic fines.
# courts-service - Tuesday 4 February, 2014
Courts 'poor box' to be scrapped in favour 'more transparent' reparations fund
The poor box has been in existence since before the foundation of the State.
Confused about separation or divorce? New videos aim to offer simple advice
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.
# courts-service - Tuesday 21 January, 2014
Oxfam, Focus and Garda Trust all benefit from €2m 'Poor Box' fund
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.
# courts-service - Monday 16 December, 2013
Child care applications up 15 per cent in 2012, wide variations between towns
The figures are contained in the latest volume of the Child Care Law Reporting Project, which also details several high-profile cases.
# courts-service - Monday 19 August, 2013
Chief Justice: death of judge Kevin Feeney is a 'great loss to the State'
The 61-year-old will be laid to rest this afternoon.
# courts-service - Monday 29 July, 2013
Courts Service hands keys of Kilmainham Courthouse over to OPW
The courthouse is expected to expand visitor numbers to Kilmainham Gaol.
# courts-service - Tuesday 9 July, 2013
Change in law sees almost 13,000 applications for safety and protection orders
The figures for 2012 were laid out in today’s Annual Report from the Courts Service.
# courts-service - Monday 8 July, 2013
Here’s What Happened Today: Monday
The 17 things we learned today…
Chief Justice looks for ethics in the boardroom
Chief Justice Susan Denham said today that a “trail of devastation winds its way into our courts daily”.
Significant rise in number of rape cases in front of Irish courts
The vast majority of cases heard in Irish courts were related to road-traffic offences.
# courts-service - Saturday 2 March, 2013
Court orders for repossessions fall by 30pc in 2012
Figures from the Courts Service show that the number of repossessions has fallen 46 per cent in two years.
# courts-service - 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.
# courts-service - Sunday 16 December, 2012
Are ignition locks the answer to cutting drink-drive deaths?
Ireland is considering introducing them as a sentencing option in drink-driving convictions, a measure recommended this week in the US.
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Poll: Are you opposed to co-living developments in Ireland?
RESIDENTS IN DUBLIN have written to An Bord Pleanála in a bid to stop a co-living development popping up in their North Inner City neighbourhood.
Co-living projects – where residents have their own unit of residence with bed and bathroom but share communal cooking and living areas – have been a controversial concept in Ireland with some describing them as modern tenements and a poor response to the housing crisis.
Developers, however, insist co-living units will make up a small proportion of the housing market, will appeal to younger working professionals, and were never designed in response to the housing crisis.
So today we’re asking: Are you opposed to co-living developments in Ireland?
Poll Results:
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No, I think they should be part of the market (4229)
I'm not sure (937)
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