Corte d’appello per riferire il ritiro di Conor McGregor di “nuove prove” a DPP
https://www.thejournal.ie/conor-mcgregor-appeal-withdrawal-evidence-dpp-6749881-Jul2025/?utm_source=shortlink
di ImaDJnow
Corte d’appello per riferire il ritiro di Conor McGregor di “nuove prove” a DPP
https://www.thejournal.ie/conor-mcgregor-appeal-withdrawal-evidence-dpp-6749881-Jul2025/?utm_source=shortlink
di ImaDJnow
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What was the point of this stunt? Cause more misery for the victim? Solicitor firms should be sanctioned as well for overseeing/contributing to these nasty tactics
Or is it just the potential witnesses that may have committed perjury?
Edit: rather than McGregor himself
The original request for appeal generated headlines that painted the prick in a sympathetic way, now he withdraws after the hype has winded down
>When proceedings resumed, Mark Mulholland KC, for McGregor, told the court that the matter related to materials that Gordon had intended to put to O’Reilly during cross examination yesterday, and objected to their introduction.
>Referring to Gordon’s suggestion yesterday that the matter could result in a criminal investigation in the form of perjury, Mulholland told the court that if there should be a criminal investigation, “then quite properly these are matters that should not be dealt with in this court”.
Has the court essentially called the bluff of McGregors defence council here? He was thinking they would just let them drop it and not deal with the matter outside of the court.
Hopefully.
It would seem that whatever materials her solicitor wanted to introduce could be gold.
Would be a top 10 hilarious moment if he incriminated himself with this appeal
Not going to pretend I understand the legalities of this latest move. I can only imagine McGregor’s legal team are on serious money and most likely top of their game. It’s bizarre this would be brought to the court and then withdrawn.
What’s particularly interesting here (…if you’re a nerd) is how the *Criminal Justice (Perjury and Related Offences) Act 2021* has changed the landscape. Before this, perjury in Ireland was a vague, common law offence – rarely prosecuted and difficult to define. The 2021 Act codified perjury and related offences, laying out clear definitions and penalties, and giving both the courts and the DPP a much stronger framework to act on suspected false evidence.
That means we don’t yet have a lot of case law under this new regime, so it’s hard to predict exactly what will happen next. But given the high threshold for a court to refer anything to the DPP in the first place, this could be a real high-wire act for McGregor’s solicitors and barristers who could face professional sanctions for participating in the scheme.
Especially now that the old system, where the Law Society handled solicitors’ discipline, has been overhauled in favour of an independent statutory regulator (the LSRA), with a stronger emphasis on accountability.
Might go nowhere, but interesting to see the new act in action.
Can someone please explain in laymans terms whats happening here? Might be being dim but all of the reports seem to be saying something and nothing at all