Mr Justice Charleton
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Supreme Court judge’s ‘very specific’ dietary choices outlined for legal staff
- Crime & Law
- November 16, 2019, 05:00
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relatives.” So reads the Oscar Wilde quote that opens a document instructing legal staff (...)

Supreme Court rules mandatory firearm sentence unconstitutional
- Supreme Court
- May 15, 2019, 13:11
The Supreme Court has declared unconstitutional a law requiring that a mandatory five year minimum sentence be imposed on some persons convicted under(...)

Call for forensic investigators to examine historic child abuse claims
- Crime & Law
- December 18, 2018, 15:13
Claims of historic child abuse should be examined by specialist forensic investigators independent of Tusla, the child and family agency, the Special (...)

Harris believes parts of Charleton report written directly to him
- Crime & Law
- November 6, 2018, 11:18
Garda Commissioner Drew Harris has said he believes certain aspects of the Charleton report were drafted specifically for his attention. Speaking to (...)

Maurice McCabe ‘repulsively denigrated’ by Martin Callinan
- Crime & Law
- October 12, 2018
The Disclosures Tribunal has delivered a devastating finding against former Garda commissioner Martin Callinan, who it found conducted a “campaign of (...)

‘No need’ for tribunal if Tusla owned up to false rape allegation
- Crime & Law
- October 11, 2018, 20:31
If Tusla had owned up to mistakenly accusing garda whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe of rape, there would likely have been no need for the Disclosures (...)

Disclosures Tribunal finds Callinan led ‘campaign of calumny’ against McCabe
- Crime & Law
- October 11, 2018
The Charleton Tribunal report published today is damning for former Garda Commissioner, Martin Callinan, but a vindication for his successor, Nóirín O(...)

Callinan said Sgt McCabe was child sex abuser – Tribunal
- Crime & Law
- October 11, 2018, 18:43
Former Garda commissioner Martin Callinan described whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe as a child sex abuser, the Disclosures Tribunal has found. And M(...)

Judge Charleton will be replaced by Sean Ryan on Disclosures Tribunal
- Politics
- July 24, 2018, 19:30
Peter Charleton, the judge presiding over the Disclosures Tribunal, is to leave the post and return to the Supreme Court on conclusion of the current (...)

Charleton evidence raises questions about damaging claims made
- Irish News
- June 30, 2018, 06:00
A number of serious allegations against former Garda commisssioner Nóirín O’Sullivan and others have been strongly challenged by the evidence heard ov(...)