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

A trial, not an error

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

Anglo trial : Legal advice as an issue in the case

Judge told jury that such advice on transaction was irrelevant to guilt or innocence

Recourse was key difference between Maple 10 and Quinn family loans

Difference may explain why jury found Whelan and McAteer guilty

Judge a former garda noted for swift, informed decisions

Judge Martin Nolan asked telling questions of witnesses that went to the heart of the case

Seánie winks as verdict exceeds his expectations

Jury returns with majority verdict at end of third full day of deliberation

Seán FitzPatrick’s barrister who successfully masterminded an effective defence

Michael O’Higgins is a former journalist and award-winning short-story writer

Seán FitzPatrick: Ambitious, charismatic and controversial

Long journey to ‘not guilty’ for former Anglo Irish Bank chairman

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