Case Title: M.P. v Teaching Council of Ireland, [2019] IEHC 102 (2019)

Introduction ⚓︎

This review features a recent High Court application for an injunction brought by a teacher to restrain the Teaching Council of Ireland from making a notification of concern to the National Vetting Bureau relating to potential harm to a child or vulnerable person.

In the course of this judgment, these aspects of the provisions and objectives of the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Act 2012-2016 are considered in detail. This piece of legislation is clearly one that engages the kind of balance that the law is often required to weigh. In this case, it is the public interest of seeking to prevent harm being