R v David Andrew Nicholson [2004] NICC 14
Murder - inebriated victim - burglary - 78 stab wounds to various parts of body - higher starting point - many aggravating features - tariff fixed at 16 years.
[2004] NICC 14 Kerr LCJ7522 results
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
[2004] NIQB 41 Girvan J
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
[2004] NIQB 40 Girvan J
Department of Health, Social Services & Personal Safety v Stella Stacey
[2004] NICh 6 Morgan J
In the matter of an application by BW for Judicial Review
[2004] NIQB 39 Weatherup J
In the matter of an application by Sharon McBurney for Judicial Review
[2004] NIQB 37 Weatherup J
In the matter of an application by City Hotel (Derry) Limited for Judicial Review
[2004] NIQB 38 Weatherup J
R v Martin Brian James Bernard Maughan
[2004] NICA 21 Kerr LCJ
John Ringland v South Eastern Education and Library Board
[2004] NIQB 89 McCollum LJ
Cushnan’s Application
[2004] NIQB 94 Gillen J
In the matter of an application by E for Judicial Review
[2004] NIQB 35 Kerr LCJ
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.
[2004] NICA 20 Kerr LCJ
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.
[2004] NICC 10 Kerr LCJ
In the matter of Paul Arthur Maye and In the matter of the Proceeds of Crime (Northern Ireland) Order 1996
[2004] NIQB 33 Morgan J
In the matter of an application by David Andrew Glasgow for Judicial Review
[2004] NIQB 34 Morgan J
Attorney General's Reference (No.3 of 2004) Thomas John Hazlett (AG Ref 4 of 2002)
[2004] NICA 20 Kerr LCJ
Chief Constable of the Police Service of NI v Darren McKeown
[2004] NIMag 2 District Judge (MC) McNally
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.
[2004] NILST 5 Kerr LCJ
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.
[2004] NICC 5 Kerr LCJ
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.
[2004] NICC 4 Kerr LCJ