January Criminal Law Update - DPP v Jonathan O’Flaherty

Laura Byrne BL provides in-depth case analysis of DPP v Jonathan O’Flaherty in the January issue of Irish Criminal Law for our Criminal Law subscribers. This decision arose from a case stated in the High Court on whether a member of An Garda Síochána had a statutory power to require a driver to wait at a checkpoint after providing a specimen of oral fluid until the drug-testing apparatus had completed an analysis of the specimen.

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O’Malley J – 25 November 2024 – Supreme Court – [2024] IESC 54

detention – oral fluid test – use of apparatus – implied power – statutory interpretation