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JUDGMENT of Mr. Justice Fennelly delivered the 11th day of May 2010.

Three judges of the High Court have refused applications for judicial review of decisions refusing applications for firearms certificates in two cases and, in one case, an import licence. 

The solicitors representing the appellants in each of these three cases represents the National Association of Regional Games Council, which, according to the solicitors, had supported dozens of legal challenges to what were claimed to be breaches of the Firearms Legislation by the Garda Commissioner, Garda Superintendents and the Minister for Justice Equality and Law Reform.  Certainly, there were a number of judicial review challenges to decisions of Garda Superintendents in the year 2008. 

Each application has to be considered according to its individual merits under the terms of the Firearms Act, 1925 as amended by the Firearms Act, 1964. The firearms legislation has been so radically amended since the occurrence of the events giving rise to these proceedings, by the Criminal Justice Act, 2006 and the Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2009, that the outcome of the appeals is of limited, if any, practical importance for the future.

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