Zadecki v Director of Public Prosecutions (Approved)

                  The Applicant is a Polish national who was charged with a number of offences which came before the District Court for hearing in April, 2021.� While he was acquitted on some of the charges coming before the District Court, he was convicted on others.� A full transcript of the hearing before the District Court is available.

                  Leave to proceed by way of judicial review was granted by the High Court (Simons J.) on the 25 th of August, 2021 on foot of a written judgment ( [2021] IEHC 553 ).�

                  Despite the restricted circumstances in which judicial review is available as a remedy where the complaint relates to the evidence adduced, leave to proceed by way of judicial review was granted by Simons J. in respect of two charges related to possession of an allegedly stolen PPS (Personal Public Service) card and a Leap (public transport) card.� As set out in the judgment, leave was granted because (para. 29):

                  �In granting leave, Simons J. allowed the proceedings to be maintained on the following grounds:

i.                     Having regard to all the circumstances, including the multiple refusals by the learned Judge to apply the law to the evidence and the failures by the learned Judge to provide any or any sufficient or rational reasons for his decisions on the aforesaid matters, the Applicant�s right to a trial in due course of law in which justice was seen to be done has been breached;