Michael O Higgins

Pregnant woman died due to ‘manual strangulation’, court told

Jury in Stephen Cahoon murder trial told Jean Quigley 10 weeks pregnant at time of death

Crime fiction: How Prime Suspect’s Jane Tennison turned into a trailblazer

The young policewoman has a baptism of fire in Lynda La Plante’s latest novel, set in 1973

Michael O’Higgins: Knee-jerk reaction to bail laws following garda killing

Glib slogans calling for bail reforms do an injustice to the tragic death of Garda Golden and overlook central issues

Ireland’s other Law Library

The professions of writer and lawyer share lots of similarities so it is perhaps no surprise that so many Irish lawyers venture into fiction. Sarah Gilmartin hears the evidence

Michael O’Higgins on writing Snapshots: it took eight years but it wasn’t a trial

The ability to harness raw material and present it coherently helps but the precision needed to prepare a criminal brief can inhibit imagination, which is vital for fiction

Omagh bombing accused given month to prevent trial

Lawyers for bricklayer Séamus Daly must decide whether to cross-examine witnesses

Supreme Court decision offers gardaí ‘get-out clause’

Michael O’Higgins SC thinks decision relaxing criminal evidence rules has huge implications

Body of cyclist in alleged hit-and-run was ‘driven’ through hedge, court hears

Shane Fitzgerald (22) pleads not guilty to charge of dangerous driving causing death

Six dissident Republicans freed after High Court challenge

Men claimed imprisonment in Irish jails for conspiring to cause explosions in Britain was unlawful

The 47-day Anglo Irish Bank trial wasn’t about vengeance for the banking collapse. It was about subtle legal points: the ‘good-faith defence’ and ‘the ordinary course of business’. Some feared such white-collar concepts would be beyond a jury. They were wrong