Election petitions – service – substituted service – Rule 6(1),(3),(4) – requirement to attempt personal service for three days before substituted service – computation of time – public holidays – Interpretation Act s.34(1)(b); Order 51 Rule 3 CPR

Parliamentary elections — service of petition — strict timelines — Rule 19 enlargement of time for special circumstances — Rule 6(4)-(5) substituted service — publication, affixation, electronic transmission permitted

Banking law — digital infrastructure and fraud monitoring; Quincecare duty — threshold of reasonable grounds to suspect fraud; customer duty — safeguarding debit card and PIN; circumstantial evidence and gross negligence in unauthorised card transactions; liability for unauthorised electronic payments

Civil Procedure Act s98; inherent powers of the court; open justice vs right to privacy (Articles 28, 27, 29); strict-necessity and proportionality test for in-camera hearings; pseudonyms and confidentiality orders in sensitive medical negligence proceedings

Companies Act – Registrar’s jurisdiction – minority oppression and rectification of register; Companies (Powers of the Registrar) Regulations SI No. 71/2016 – Regulation 4 (pendency in Court) – preclusion where identical High Court proceedings exist; injunctive relief and certain remedies fall outside Registrar’s powers; avoidance of inconsistent decisions and abuse of process

Companies Act – Registrar jurisdiction – member oppression petitions and rectification of register; Regulation 4 preclusion where parallel High Court proceedings; overlap of remedies; risk of inconsistent decisions and abuse of process

Criminal law — No-case to answer — sufficiency of evidence under s.74 Trial on Indictments Act — last-seen doctrine; recent possession; aggravated robbery requirements; proof of participation; forensic and chain-of-custody reliability; misjoinder of counts/persons

Criminal law – Aggravated defilement – Proof of sexual act: slight penetration sufficient; medical evidence and contemporaneous observations as corroboration
Identification – Single witness, fleeting observation, youth and lack of familiarity: risk of mistaken identity; absence of corroboration (identification parade, arresting officers, forensic evidence) renders conviction unsafe. Appeal review under Rule 30(1)(a)

Children Act — age determination and court's duty; burden on prosecution to prove majority; identification evidence and identification parade; right to interpreter and fair trial; sentencing limits for child offenders; illegal sentence and release

Anti-Corruption Act — solicitation and receipt of gratification — sufficiency of evidence; Criminal Procedure Code Act s.45 — limits of second appeals; hearsay evidence — not decisive where independent evidence exists; production of phone call printouts — not mandatory