Attorney General v Coyne and Another

JurisdictionIreland
Judgment Date01 January 1967
Date01 January 1967
CourtSupreme Court
(S.C.)
Attorney-General
and
Coyne and Another

Notices of intention to prosecute served - Notices written in Irish - Defendant unable to understand Irish -Garda explaining contents of notice - Whether notices valid - Road Traffic Act, 1933, ss. 51, 55 (2) (a).

A notice of intention to prosecute is valid if written in the Irish language and served on a defendant who does not understand theIrish language.

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  • Maher v DPP
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 22 Enero 2019
    ...the Statements in Irish. The respondent relies upon the decisions of the Supreme Court in Attorney General v. Coyne & Wallace [1967] 101 I.L.T.R. 17, and Ó Gríofáin (to which I made reference earlier). In Ó Gríofáin, the applicant, a native Irish speaker, refused to sign a statement produc......
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    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 6 Mayo 2010
    ...conduct legal matters in court in national language - Ó Beoláin v Fahy [2001] 2 IR 279 applied; Attorney General v Coyne and Wallace (1967) 101 ILTR 17 and Delap v Minister for Justice (1996) TÉ 116 considered - Constitution of Ireland 1937, Articles 8 and 25.4 - Defendants' appeal allowed......
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  • The Right of Minority Languages in Domestic Courts ? Realisable Right or Illusory Concept?
    • Ireland
    • Cork Online Law Review No. 15-2016, January 2016
    • 1 Enero 2016
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 66JM Kelly, ‘The Irish Text of the Constitution’ (1966) ISLR 7, 10.
 67Woehrling (n 4) 161. 68Explanatory Report (n 7) para 99. [......
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    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 31-3, July 1967
    • 1 Julio 1967
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