Madden & Finucane Solicitors

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Latest Madden & Finucane Judgments

R v Barry Cavan
Life tariff of 13 years for murder - defendant had a lower degree of responsibility due to two psychiatric factors identified by the Defence Psychiatric Report
06 March 2013
R v W
Court of Appeal - conviction for sexual assault quashed
23 January 2013
2012 NIQB 63 - An Application by Sally Gribben for leave to apply for Judicial Review
18 October 2012
R v Gerard Connors
Application for leave to appeal the sentence of a minimum tariff of 13 years' imprisonment in respect of murder. - whether the trial judge should have applied the lower starting point. - whether he failed to give sufficient weight to the applicant's expression of remorse and whether he did not properly give sufficient weight to the applicant's youth and clear record. - personal circumstances of the offender. - guilty plea. - HELD that the credit given to the applicant's admissions and his plea was not as great as it should have been and minimum term reduced to 12 years to include the period spent on remand in custody
15 May 2012
2012 NICA 7 - The Queen v Alison Michelle Martin
20 April 2012
Sunday Newspapers Ltd’s Application (Judgment No 2) [2012] NIQB 26 - An Application by Sunday Newpapers Limited (Judgment NO. 2) - In the Matter of an Application for Judicial Review by JR 20
Madden & Finucane successfully represented 'JR20', in an application by Sunday Newspapers to have his anonymity, granted by the High Court in previous judicial review proceedings removed
30 March 2012
2012 NIQB - An Application for leave to apply for Judicial Review by Brigid McCaughey (No 2)
28 March 2012
2012 NIQB 20 - An Application for leave to apply for Judicial Review by Brigid McCaughey
12 March 2012
2012 NIQB 14 In the Matter of an Application by Gary Haggarty for Judicial Review
09 March 2012
Application by CD2 for Judicial Review
14 June 2011
Duncan McLuckie
10 June 2011
Drew King v Sunday Newspapers Limited
31 March 2011
Laurence Kincaid and Darren Kernohan
10 December 2010
Patrick Watson v NIPS
06 July 2010
James Clyde Reilly v NIPS
05 July 2010
Shoot To Kill Judicial Review
27 May 2010
Reilly's (James Clyde) Application
10 May 2010
An application by Jim McCabe for Judicial Review
27 April 2010
James Clyde Reilly
13 April 2010
McCallion v Secretary of State
16 November 2009
Darren Hart
19 June 2009
Darren Hart v NIPS
03 March 2009
Paul Haire Judgment
18 February 2009
Elan Neeson
13 February 2009
Ryan Subryan
30 January 2009
CD JR Judgement
23 January 2009
Pearse Jordan Judgment
15 December 2008
Pearse Jordan
19 September 2008
Conor McManus v NIPS
07 August 2008
C D, Re [2008] NIQB 56
22 May 2008
'Application by Joseph Connor for Judicial Review' 2008 NIQB 53
20 May 2008
Christopher Donaldson, Re Leave To Apply For Judicial Review [2008] NIQB 42
04 April 2008
Deborah Bothwell
06 February 2008
Patrick Francis Joseph McDonagh
05 February 2008
Toyin Oyegbami, Re Judicial Review [2007] NIQB 95
23 November 2007
Edward Bradley, Tara Casey and Julie Doherty, Re Application for Judicial Review [2007] NIQB 98
20 November 2007
'Mairtin O'Muilleoir v Michael McDowell and Robin Livingstone v Michael McDowell' 2007 NIQB 108
12 November 2007
Ann Marie McCallion, Re Judicial Review [2007] NIQB 76
25 October 2007
X, Re Application for Judicial Review [2007] NIQB 74
04 October 2007
Saeed Ullah, Re Application for Judicial Review [2007] NIQB 45
14 June 2007
Tendai Cindy Zwoushe Zhanje, Re Judicial Review [2007] NIQB 14
26 February 2007
John Thompson, Re Application for Judicial Review [2007] NIQB 8
05 February 2007
Julia Mongan, Re Application for Judicial Review [2006] NIQB 82
27 November 2006
Graeme Drummond, Re Application for Judicial Review [2006] NIQB 81
24 November 2006
Graeme Drummond, Re Application for Judicial Review [2006] NIQB 69
22 September 2006
Jean McBride, Re An Application for Judicial Review Rev 1 [2005] NIQB 54
29 June 2005
Upenyu Hove and Tinashe Jinga, Re An Application for Judicial Review [2005] NIQB 24
18 March 2005
Committee on the Administration of Justice & Anor, Re An Application for Judicial Review [2005] NIQB 25
18 March 2005
Sinn Fein, Re An Application for Judicial Review [2005] NIQB 10
14 February 2005
Julie Doherty, Re an Application for Judicial Review [2004] NIQB 78
24 November 2004
Francie & Anne Brolly, Re An Application For Judicial Review [2004] NIQB 69
27 October 2004
Mary Louise Thompson, Re Application for Judicial Review [2004] NIQB 62
29 September 2004
Gerard Magee, Re Application for Statutory Review [2004] NIQB 57
16 September 2004
Ann Marie McCallion & Others, Re Application for Judicial Review [2004] NIQB 54
10 September 2004
Sean Vincent McCann, Re Application for Judicial Review [2004] NIQB 47
09 September 2004
Martin Corden, Re an Application for Judicial Review [2004] NIQB 44
09 July 2004
E, Re Re Application for Judicial Review [2004] NIQB 35
16 June 2004
Francis Mackin, Re Application for Judicial Review [2004] NIQB 36
17 May 2004
Mulhern, Re Petition for Judicial Review [2004] NIQB 28
30 April 2004
John Byers, Re an Application for Judicial Review [2004] NIQB 23
This is an application for judicial review of - The policy of the Northern Ireland Prison Service not to permit the wearing of Easter lilies by prisoners in the communal areas of prisons. The decision of a Governor on 20 April 2003 to order the applicant to remove an Easter lily from his clothing. The decision of a Governor in an adjudication on 23 April 2003 finding the applicant guilty on a disciplinary charge of disobeying a lawful order to remove the Easter lily.
02 April 2004
Owen McCaughey & Pat Grew, Re Application for Judicial Review [2004] NIQB 2
This is an application by the fathers of Martin McCaughey and Desmond Grew, who were killed by soldiers on 9 October 1990, for Judicial Review of the decisions of the Chief Constable and the Coroner concerning the disclosure of documents for the purposes of the Inquests into the deaths, in particular in relation to the disclosure to the Coroner of three documents retained by police. First, a copy of the police report prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions. Second, the DPP directions in response to the police report, which directed no prosecution. Third, unredacted copies of intelligence reports gathered by the police, redacted copies having been forwarded to the Coroner by the police. Application granted in respect of the first and third documents.
20 January 2004
Hugh Jordan, Re an Application for Judicial Review [2004] NIQB 27
Hugh Jordan, the father and next of kin of Pearse Jordan, applied by way of judicial review for a declaration that the respondent, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, in breach of Section 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998 and Article 2 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 1950 ("The European Convention on Human Rights") had failed to provide the applicant with an Article 2 compliant investigation into the death of his son and, further, for an order of Mandamus compelling the respondent to provide the applicant with an Article 2 compliant investigation.
12 January 2004
Jean McBride, Re Application for Judicial Review [2003] NIQB 72
Mrs McBride is the mother of Peter McBride who was shot dead by two serving soldiers, Guardsmen Wright and Fisher, ("the Guardsmen") on 4 September 1992. Those soldiers were subsequently convicted of his murder. Subsequent to their release from prison on 1 September 1998 the Army Board decided that they should be retained in the Army. That decision was subsequently the subject of a successful challenge before Kerr J ("McBride No.1"). The Army Board subsequently reconsidered its decision and on 21 November 2000 again decided that the seven factors which it listed, taken together, constituted "exceptional reasons" justifying the retention of the Guardsmen in the Army. Leave to apply for judicial review granted.
05 December 2003
Samuel Surgenor, Re Application for Judicial Review [2003] NIQB 62
An application for judicial review of decisions made on behalf of the Northern Ireland Prison Service and the Scottish Prison Service in relation to the applicant who was serving a sentence of imprisonment at HMP Magilligan.
09 September 2003
Thomas Murphy, Re Application for Judicial Review [2003] NIQB 55
An application by Thomas Murphy for judicial review of the decision of the Legal Aid Committee of the Law Society refusing legal aid to the applicant to pursue an application for judicial review of the decision of the Parades Commission to restrict the route of Banna Fluit Naomh Phadraig (St Patrick's flute band) on a parade proposed to be held in Kilkeel, County Down on 17 March 2001.
5 September 2003
Damien McComb, Re an Application for Judicial Review [2003] NIQB 47
Judicial Review of a decision of the Recorder of Belfast, failing to take the provisions of the Good Friday Agreement into account, when refusing the applicant a PSV licence, because he was a former political prisoner. Judicial Review granted and Decision quashed.
30 June 2003
E, Re Application for Judicial Review [2003] NIQB 39
Judicial Review of decisions of the RUC, policing the Holy Cross dispute.
09 June 2003
Neville Peart, Re Application for Judicial Review [2003] NIQB 34
Judicial Review of a decision of the England and Wales Parole Board.
20 May 2003
Sinn Féin, Re Application for Judicial Review [2003] NIQB 27
Re funding for political parties.
11 April 2003
Kieran McGuinness, Re [2003] NIQB 3
An application in respect of conditions imposed upon a restricted prisoner transferred from the English Prison System to the NI Prison system.
06 January 2003
Hugh Jordan, Re [2003] NIQB 1
An application by Hugh Jordan for judicial review of the decision of the Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland refusing to give reasons for his decision not to prosecute the police officer who caused the death of the applicant's son Pearse Jordan.
06 January 2003
Denis Donaldson, Re [2002] NIQB 68
Bail Application
20 December 2002
D for Judicial Review, Re [2002] NIQB 51
Orange Arch case.
19 September 2002
Hugh Jordan, Re Application for Judicial Review [2001] NIQB 32
Judicial Review of a decision by the Chief Constable to withold certain documents from the next of kin of Pearse Jordan at Inquest, pending receipt of an undertaking that the documents will be used only for a certain purpose.
04 September 2001
Noel Anderson (a minor), & Another, Re Application for Judicial Review [2001] NIQB 31
Re Schools Admission Policy.
20 August 2001
Ann Marie McCallion & Ors, Re Application for Judicial Review [2001] NIQB 30
McCallion & Ors (No1).
09 July 2001
A, Re Application for Judicial Review [2001] NIQB 21
25 June 2001
Charles Conlon, Re Application for Judicial Review [2001] NIQB 18
04 May 2001
Brendan McDonnell, Re Application for Judicial Review [2001] NIQB 10
09 March 2001
Bairbre de Brun & Martin McGuinness, Re Application for Judicial Review [2001] NIQB 3
30 January 2001
Martin Corden and Northern Ireland Prison Service. [2000] NIQB 40
JR in relation to the application of Article 2 of the ECHR in respect of transfer of the applicant from HMP Maze to HMP Maghaberry.
02 October 2000
Margaret Stokes, In the Matter of [2000] NIQB 29
Challenge to Coroner's decision.
12 September 2000
David Adams, In the Matter of [2000] NIQB 14
David Adams v DPP.
7 June 2000
Seamus Treacy and Barry Macdonald, In the Matter of [2000] NIQB 6
Oath challenge.
02 May 2000
Josephine Devine, In re [1999] NIQB 7; [1999] NIJB 128
Judicial Review of Decisions in respect of the application of the Proceeds of Crime (Northern Ireland) Order 1996.
26 March 1999
Sharon Lavery (No.2), In re [1999] NIQB 6
This is an application by Sharon Lavery for judicial review of various decisions of the Legal Aid department of the Law Society in relation to her entitlement to legal aid for legal representation at an inquest into the death of her husband, Paul Lavery.
16 March 1999
Damien Floyd, Re Application for Judicial Review [1997] NIQB 1
And Pauline & Christine Palmer Re failure to allow solicitor to be present at interview during questioning under the Prevention of Terrorism Act.
17 September 1997
Ann Bradley, Re Application for Judicial Review [1996] NIQB 2
Judicial Review of a decision by HM Coroner for Greater Belfast, refusing to call two military witnesses at an inquest into the death of three men, shot dead by security forces at Whiterock Road, Belfast in 1990.
29 August 1996
Kevin McCann, Re Application for Judicial Review [1994] NIQB 1
Re Lawfulness of a decision of the Governor of HMP Belfast Crumlin Road, and a challenge to the refusal of the Legal Aid Appeals Committee to grant legal aid to a prisoner. Decision quashed.
06 December 1994