Marie Fleming

Most young barristers have to wait years for a meaty case to arrive on their desk. Frank Clarke was qualified less than a year when one of the biggest(...)

The Supreme Court ruled last week in favour of a Burmese asylum seeker who challenged the legislative provisions that prohibited him from seeking work(...)

The rule of the higher courts is that costs follow the event – which is say that they go to the winner – unless otherwise ordered. When it gave the I(...)

Tom Curran, the partner of late right-to-die campaigner Marie Fleming, has said he is disappointed a Garda investigation is under way into her death. (...)

A High Court judge is expected to decide soon if a severely brain-injured young man, who has been on ventilator support for four years and has a very (...)

Right-to-die campaigner Tom Curran has called on the Government to legalise the use of cannabis for medical purposes. Mr Curran said only two things(...)

Recently, I read Séamus O’Mahony’s occasionally grumpy, sometimes bleakly humorous and always thought-provoking book, The Way We Die Now. O’Mahony, a (...)

Tom Curran, the partner of the late right-to-die campaigner Marie Fleming has said in an interview with the Irish Examiner that he helped dozens of s(...)

The retiring president of the High Court has warned his fellow judges about the dangers of paralysing investigations into matters of serious public co(...)

Independent TD John Halligan moved a Private Member’s Bill providing for “a dignified and peaceful end of life’’ for qualifying persons. He said the(...)