[8] In 1979, he represented Francis McGirl who was acquitted of the murder of Louis Mountbatten.
[9] He made his judicial declaration of office to become a judge of the High Court on 2 July 1984.
[2] He was one of five judges who decided the X Case in 1992, allowing the appeal of the girl, and in 1995 he issued a dissenting opinion in Re.
a Ward of Court where he held that the removal of a tube providing food to a woman would be equivalent to killing her.
His removal was attended by the Chief Justice Ronan Keane, the Attorney General Rory Brady and the aide-de-camp to the President.