“A person in county Donegal… may know of a process against him being before a court in Northern Ireland but that alone is not sufficient”
Here’s an interesting, if legally technical, story from the Irish Times. Apparently a Northern Ireland judge has ruled that “its courts do not have the jurisdiction to proceed with cases where the defendant is resident outside the UK unless a summons has been served on them through the court.” And that includes Ireland. From the Irish Times report The test case was brought after a man with Donegal address and an Irish driver’s licence was caught travelling at 44mph in …