Doyle v Wicklow County Council
| Jurisdiction | Ireland |
| Judgment Date | 14 December 1974 |
| Date | 14 December 1974 |
| Docket Number | [S.C. No. 4 of 1972] |
| Court | Supreme Court |
Doyle
and
Wicklow County Council
(S.C.)
Whether test of insanity in criminal trial applicable - McNaghten rules -Applicant for compensation insured against damage by fire - Whether applicant entitled to compensation under criminal injury code -Grand Jury (Ir.) Act, 1836 (6 7 Wm. IV, c.116), s. 135 - Malicious Damage Act, 1861 (24 25 Vict. c. 97), s. 51 - Local Government (Ir.) Act, 1898 (60 61 Vict. c. 37), s. 5.
On the night of the 28th January, 1970, a youth aged 17 years set fire to and burned the applicant's abattoir. The applicant applied to the respondents under the criminal injury code for compensation for his loss. At the hearing of the application in the Circuit Court it was established that the youth had caused...
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14 cases
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DPP v Yusuf Ali Abdi
...Rules which still applied in Ireland at the time of the trial (albeit as modified in the Irish context post Doyle v Wicklow Co Council [1974] IR 55). His insanity defence was rejected by the jury, who on the 28th of May 2003 convicted him of murder by a majority verdict of 10:2. He was then......
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Delaney v The Personal Injuries Board and Others
...is wrong, originally in law but now including moral wrong, and by the inclusion of an insane compulsion; Doyle v Wicklow County Council [1974] IR 55. These guidelines have no coercive effect. Rather, the only coercion in a judge, addressing tort liability for personal injury is to do justic......
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DPP v Stephen Duffy
...acted with intention or recklessness or criminal recklessness, depending on the offence causing the wrong; Doyle v Wicklow County Council [1974] IR 55 is an example. In 1986, the scheme of compensation was changed from personal damage so that only out of pocket loss was to be compensated. T......
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DPP v Redmond
...v MESSITT 1972 IR 204 BRATTY v AG FOR NORTHERN IRELAND 1963 AC 386 1961 3 AER 523 1961 3 WLR 965 1961 46 CAR 1 DOYLE v WICKLOW CO COUNCIL 1974 IR 55 NON-FATAL OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON ACT 1997 S4 COURTS (ESTABLISHMENT & CONSTITUTION) ACT 1961 S6A MCAULEY & MCCUTCHEON CRIMINAL LIABILITY:......
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1 books & journal articles
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The Law of Insanity and Diminished Responsibility in Criminal Law versus the Meaning of Insanity within the Medical Profession: an inevitable conflict?
...IR 449 34 McAuley, Insanity, Psychiatry and Criminal Responsibility (Dublin: Roundhall Press, 1993) p 1 35 Doyle v Wicklow County Council [1974] IR 55 36 ibid, p 71 37 supra note 15, p 46 38 ibid, p 46 39 See O’Hanlon J in People (D.P.P.) v Patrick Ellis (1990) 2 IR 291 40 (1955) 89 ILTR 15......