Enright v Ireland

JurisdictionIreland
JudgeJustice Finlay Geoghegan
Judgment Date18 December 2002
Neutral Citation2003 WJSC-HC 4720
CourtHigh Court
Docket Number[2001 No. 18359 P]
Date18 December 2002

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29 cases
  • JF v Ireland and Others
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 14 July 2015
    ...that they do not constitute a penalty, sanction or sentence and counsel relies on DPP v. Cawley [2003] 4 I.R. 321, Enright v. Ireland [2003] 2 I.R. 321 and P.H. v. Ireland and Others [2006] IEHC 40 in this regard. 22 The defendants deny that sections 8(3)(a) and 11(2) of the Sex Offenders A......
  • Lordan v Minister for Social Protection and Others
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 9 July 2024
    ...“originally intended to be punitive in purpose” (at para. 57). In applying the criteria developed by the court in Enright v. Ireland [2003] 2 I.R. 321, by which punishment within Article 38 that could only be imposed by an Article 34 court is to be determined, he found “the provision is a p......
  • Farrelly v Commissioner of an Garda Síochána
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 17 June 2009
    ...PatrickConroy -v- the Attorney General and Michael J Keaveney [1965] 1 IR 411; and Thomas Enright -v- Ireland and the Attorney General [2003] 2 IR 321. 21 Somewhat surprisingly I was not directly referred to either State (O'Connell) -v- Fawsitt [1986] IR.362 or to P.M.-v- Director of Publi......
  • Thomas Mccormack and Another v Oliver Rouse
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 25 July 2014
    ...(A MINOR) & ORS v MIN FOR EDUCATION & ORS 1999 2 IR 321 1999 2 ILRM 241 2000/13/5034 CONSTITUTION ART 42.4 ENRIGHT v IRELAND & AG 2003 2 IR 321 2004 1 ILRM 103 2003/21/4720 D (M) (A MINOR) v IRELAND & ORS 2012 1 IR 697 2012 2 ILRM 305 2012/9/2311 2012 IESC 10 CONSTITUTION ART 35 NATIONAL M......
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2 books & journal articles
  • Theorising Asset Forfeiture in Ireland
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 71-5, October 2007
    • 1 October 2007
    ...penal or regulatory in character: whether the sanction37 United States v Ward (1980) 448 US 242.38 Ibid. at 248–9.39 Enright v Ireland [2003] 2 IR 321.40 The absence of terminology such as ‘guilty’ and ‘conviction on indictment’ wasseen as signif‌icant in Downes vDPP [1987] IR 139 where Bar......
  • Irish Sex Offender Laws and the Right to Privacy
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage New Journal of European Criminal Law No. 2-4, December 2011
    • 1 December 2011
    ...” 64 C. White, “Control ling Sex Oende rs: Raising Crit ical Quest ions about the Sex Oende rs Bill 2000”, 4(2) IJFL 8, 2001,9.65 [2003] 2 IR 321.66 Article 15.5.1° states: “ e Oireachtas shall not decla re acts to be infringements of t he law which were not so at the date of the ir co......