Supreme Court Backlog ?

AlekSmart

Just to depart,momentarily, from the impending meltdown and implosion of Ireland as we know it,do we have any information on the current state of play with the Supreme Court as regards impending cases of Public Interest ?

I am particularly keen to hear the judgement in the Pamela Izevbekhai "Asylum" case,which most definitely has a number of points most clearly in need of SC decision.

Has the Zoe/Shipsey production left the Supreme Court with a logjam ?

The general level of,well.....silence from ALL sides appears odd when placed alongside the level of strident debate which raged all around us in the past..:)

ilovelamp2000

What points need to be clarified in the Izevbekhai case ?

I thought it seemed fairly straightfroward.

It's interesting that her counsel is a former Refugee Appeals Tribunal member.

ParkRunner

2. 393/08 & 64/09 Izeubekhai & ors -v- Minister for Justice Equality and Law Reform

Looks like the case is for mention on the 6th November

http://www.courts.ie/legaldiary.nsf/a0b54bb3745b386280256c4b0024092b/f90a932bdaa8ab2a802576580048d40a?OpenDocument

I am amazed whoever is funding her case is still willing to pay up. It is a very expensive exercise to bring a case to the Supreme Court!

imme

Who are you referring to when you say there's silence all around. The Supreme Court has said before they've too few judges and resources. I don't think the Zoe cases have created a log jam in the SC. Looking at the website they seem to be getting on with things alright. Same old same old.

walrusgumble

Rosco1982 wrote: »

What points need to be clarified in the Izevbekhai case ?

I thought it seemed fairly straightfroward.

It's interesting that her counsel is a former Refugee Appeals Tribunal member.

interesting that her counsel is a former RAT member? not really.

as you would be aware, many counsel for the DPP in criminal cases have/will acted/act for defendants in other cases which dpp bring charges.

kind of reminds me of the lawyer in the south park episode where chef sues for copyright of his song stinky bridges..... look at chubacka,

LostinBlanch

Oh look, now newstalk are reporting that a "threatening postcard" :rolleyes: posted from Alicante was sent to her lawyers (which ones now?) saying "back off now."

As a result they are saying they don't want to represent her this morning.

Amazing how these "setbacks" happen to delay the court case again and again. :rolleyes: How many years has this case been running now?I've lost count. But I'd be seriously concerned that some party or parties with an agenda are deliberately manipulating these events to make sure that this case doesn't get heard.

Cui bono?

No wonder there's a backlog in cases in the Supreme Court with all this kind of crap going on continually.