24 June 2004

In the matter of an application by Kieran Doherty for Leave to apply for Judicial Review and In the matter of a decision of the Northern Ireland Prison Service

23 June 2004

In the matter of an application for Judicial Review by the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People of the Decisions announced by the Minister of State for Criminal Justice, John Speller on 10 May 2004

22 June 2004

Department of Health, Social Services & Personal Safety v Stella Stacey

18 June 2004

In the matter of an application by BW for Judicial Review

18 June 2004

In the matter of an application by Sharon McBurney for Judicial Review

18 June 2004

In the matter of an application by City Hotel (Derry) Limited for Judicial Review

18 June 2004

R v Martin Brian James Bernard Maughan

16 June 2004

John Ringland v South Eastern Education and Library Board

16 June 2004

Cushnan’s Application

16 June 2004

In the matter of an application by E for Judicial Review

01 June 2004

Thomas John Hazlett, Attorney General's Reference (No 3 of 2004) (AG Ref 4 of 2002)

Firearms Offences - whether sentence is unduly lenient - double jeopardy.

01 June 2004

R v William George Long [2004] NILST 6

Murder - 41 year old female victim (girlfriend) - domestic argument - hit repeatedly over the head with a blunt object (edge of hatchet) - claimed he and the victim had been drinking - could not remember hitting her - at trial claimed he suffered from mental impairment - does not fit comfortably into normal or higher starting point category - lengthy criminal record for violent offences - tariff fixed 14 years.

01 June 2004

In the matter of Paul Arthur Maye and In the matter of the Proceeds of Crime (Northern Ireland) Order 1996

01 June 2004

In the matter of an application by David Andrew Glasgow for Judicial Review

01 June 2004

Attorney General's Reference (No.3 of 2004) Thomas John Hazlett (AG Ref 4 of 2002)

25 May 2004

Chief Constable of the Police Service of NI v Darren McKeown

24 May 2004

R v Ignatius Patrick Gribben

Murder - male victim (previously had affair with prisoner's wife) - shot dead - claimed shooting was an accident - normal starting point - jury rejected suggestion firearm was discharged other than deliberately - some provocation - lured victim to remote house - knew he could obtain access to firearm - some attack was intended - tariff fixed at 13 years.

24 May 2004

R v Karen Elizabeth Carson [2004] NILST 3

Murder - husband victim - single stab wound to chest - intoxicated - initially alleged third party attack - then claimed self-defence - evidence prisoner had a violent temper - previously offered money to friend to murder her husband - normal starting point - a dispute between two people known to each other - still maintains that it was drunken accident - killing was a deliberate act - no pre-meditation - little evidence of genuine remorse - contested her guilt over two trials - tariff fixed at 12 years.

24 May 2004

R v Darren Larmour [2004] NILST 2

Murders - two paramilitary gun murders - convicted on his own confession - higher starting point - planned and pre-meditated - illegal firearms - armed in advance - undoubted intention to kill - medical condition - full admission of guilt - youth of offender (21) - tariff fixed at 15 years.

24 May 2004

R v Stephen Henry McParland

Murder - 33 year old male victim - assaulted after disagreement over £20 debt - denied being present - forensic evidence placed him at scene - higher starting point - culpability exceptionally high - prolonged, merciless assault - intention to kill - strong deterrent element - drinking, not drunk - 3rd person present had attempted to restrain - lengthy criminal record, conviction for violence - contested charge - no evidence of genuine remorse - made progress while in prison - tariff fixed at 16 years.