Mary Carolan
Legal Affairs Correspondent at Irish Times
Legal Affairs Correspondent, Irish Times. Any opinions expressed are my own. Interests include ethics, social justice and human rights. And craic!
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Mary Carolan
The Association of Judges of Ireland (AJI) has said it “fully supports” an unprecedented statement from the world’s largest organisation of judges’ representative groups voicing “serious concern” about threats to judicial independence and the rule of law in the United States. US judges are increasingly “being subjected to harsh criticism, threats, and even violence”, the presidency committee of the International Association of Judges (IAJ) said in its statement issued this month.
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Mary Carolan
A landmark District Court case means users of e-bikes involved in collisions with other road users may be held liable for any injuries caused. Karl Leonard, whose leg was broken after an e-bike collided with him while he was out jogging in Co Dublin, took a private prosecution after alleging gardaí failed to properly investigate the incident and sent no file to the Director of Public Prosecutions.
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Mary Carolan
A couple have had almost €220,000 mortgage debt written off and get to keep their family home in Co Louth under a personal insolvency arrangement (PIA) approved by the Circuit Court. Pepper Finance, the primary creditor of Diane and Shane O’Brien with mortgage debt of €604,000, objected to the PIA as unfair for reasons including that it provided for the largest debt write-down (to the market value of the family home) permissible under the Personal Insolvency Acts.
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1 week ago |
impactnottingham.com | Mary Carolan
Mary Carolan I met Caradoc in November. If I’m being honest, I have never really led an interview before, so I was epically nervous. Mind you, I am unbelievably in love with the print he works for. So, it was important that I make an impression. Anyway, I told him that I’d never really led an interview before, so my plan is more to have a conversation and take things from it. I like taking feeling, rather than quotes. I suppose that’s another thing I am going to have to get used to.
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2 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Mary Carolan
A test case with implications for more than two thousand drivers who were allegedly speeding in an average speed zone will be heard by the High Court this week. The case concerns the legal adequacy of a fixed charge notice (FCN) issued to Edel O’Brien, Springhill Avenue, Deansgrange, Blackrock, Co Dublin, who is alleged to have driven at 131km/h on the M7 motorway at Birdhill (west), in an average speeding zone where a 120km/h limit applies.
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