marked coarsening of our standards of procedural fairness." Shortt -v- The Commissioner of An Garda Síochána: one of two judgments, in which the Court more than doubled (€1.9m to €4.7m) the damages granted to a man wrongfully imprisoned for over two years after two members of the Garda Síochána concocted evidence against him P.H. -v- D.P.P. 2006 D.P.P. -v- Anthony Barnes: discusses and restates the criminal law of self-defence in the case of burglary McK. -v- Homan N -v- Health Service Executive: one of five judgments given by the Court; this case concerned the circumstances in which a parent may exercise the right provided for in Irish law to rescind initial consent to adoption. A. -v- The Governor of Arbour Hill Prison: one of five judgments; the case concerned a "collateral" challenge by a prisoner to the lawfulness of his detention following the judgment in C.C. -v- Ireland (see immediately below). C.C. -v- Ireland: striking down as unconstitutional part of the law on statutory rape, due to the absence in any circumstances of a defence of honest mistake as to age. 2005 O'Callaghan -v- The Hon. Mr. Justice Mahon 2003 Gough -v- Neary Lobe -v- Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform: one of seven judgments in a case concerning whether the State could deport the parents of Irish citizens who were still minors; the Court by a majority (5–2) dismissed the appeal and allowed the deportation of the family. 2002 Dunne -v- D.P.P.: one of a series of cases, beginning with Braddish v D.P.P., in which the Court considered the contours of the Garda Síochána's duty to seek out and preserve evidence relevant to a criminal trial. Ardagh -v-. Maguire: this case concerned the procedures to be applied by a parliamentary inquiry into an incident in which members of the Garda Síochána shot dead a civilian, John Carthy. 2001 DPP -v-. Davis: on causation, and the relationship which must be shown between the injuries caused by the defendant and the death of the victim. Death Hardiman died on 7 March 2016 at the age of 64. The eulogy at his funeral, which took place in the Church of the Holy Name in Ranelagh, was delivered by Michael McDowell. He said: "The fates have robbed us of someone who simultaneously excelled in his many different personae as husband, father, grandfather, an original thinker, an advocate and, for so many who