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......
  • The People (at the suit of the DPP) v FN (A Minor)
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 23 May 2022
    ...Constitution or as to what might be argued for as any infringement on the judicial sphere in sentencing; on this see Enright v Ireland [2003] 2 IR 321and Ellis v Ireland [2019] IESC 30. There is no issue raised here about that. There is, however, and to address the argument advanced by the ......
  • O'Doherty v The Minister for Health
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 5 July 2022
    ...and legal logic. 48 . Of course, expert evidence is often of great assistance and relevance. Thus, for example, in Enright v. Ireland [2003] 2 IR 321 the State tendered expert evidence in order to demonstrate that the registration and other similar requirements contained in the Sex Offender......
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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......

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