The Supreme Court allowed an appeal by D.O., an applicant, in a case against the Director of Public Prosecutions, according to a judgment delivered by Justice Fennelly on 8 March 2006.
Justice Fennelly said he agreed with the order proposed by the Chief Justice and Justice Hardiman, and with Justice Hardiman’s reasons for allowing the appeal. He also agreed with the Chief Justice’s judgment.
The judgment said the court did not need to decide the first point certified by the Court of Criminal Appeal. Justice Fennelly therefore expressed no view on whether the appellant’s subsequent acquittal on charges based on evidence from complainants admitted in this case as similar-facts evidence could affect the appeal, whether as new evidence or otherwise.
The source records that the appeal was allowed. It does not set out the full order, the underlying appeal grounds, or the judgments of the Chief Justice and Justice Hardiman.