Family law rules ‘being breached’ in courthouse

A leading family law solicitor has urged the justice minister to personally intervene over what he claims are flagrant breaches of the law involving in-camera cases at Limerick Circuit Court.

Under the Judicial Separation Act 1989, when family law cases are heard in a court no other cases can be scheduled at the same time.

However, Limerick solicitor Dan O’Gorman, said people in family law cases in Limerick often had to walk the gauntlet of lawyers, gardaí, criminal case witnesses, defendants, media and the general public. A family law case at the court recently was followed by a DPP case that involved gardaí, solicitors, and a defendant as well as being attended by up to six journalists.