Seven years on, 'not a sod turned' on family courts site

The Hammond Lane site earmarked in 2014 for a new Family Law Court Complex. Picture: Moya Nolan

Seven years after the announcement of the location for the country’s Family Law Court Complex “not a sod has been turned” on the site, a campaigning family law solicitor has said.

On December 12, 2014, then justice minister Frances Fitzgerald, flanked by then chief justice Susan Denham, spoke to media at the derelict Hammond Lane site, near the Four Courts in Dublin, to reveal where the new complex would be built.