DPP v Farrell

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Judgment Date: 01 January 1980
• Date: 01 January 1980
• Court: Circuit Court

(Cir.Ct.)

Director of Public Prosecutions

and

Farrell

Record - Forfeiture of licence - Grant of licence - Whether endorsement to be carried over to such new licence -Licensing (Ireland) Act 1902 (2 Edw. 7 c. 18), s.6 - Intoxicating Liquor Act, 1927 (No. 15), s.25.

It was agreed between the parties that the following endorsements appeared on the Defendant's intoxicating liquor licence, namely, 1. 5th of February, 1974. 2. 21st of December, 1976. 3. 5th of December, 1977. 4. 18th of September 1979. The Order of the District Court recording the final conviction on the licence, and declaringthe licence forfeit, was under appeal. It was contended for the appellant that s. 25 (3) of the 1927 Act (as amended by s. 31 (1) (b) of the 1960 Act) meant that once the period of the endorsement in the case of the endorsement...