E.I. Company Ltd v Kennedy and Others

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Court: Supreme Court
• Judgment Date: 09 April 1968
• Docket Number: [1968. No. 705 P.]
• Date: 09 April 1968

(S.C.)

E.I. Company Ltd

and

Kennedy and Others

Trade dispute - Picketing - Whether prima facie evidence establishing right to picket - Whether evidence rebutted - Peaceful picketing - Trade Disputes Act, 1906, ss. 2, 5.

Some of the defendants were trade-union officials and the remainder were members of the union and employees of the plaintiff company. The local branch secretary of the union tried, from the 3rd June, 1966, to arrange a meeting between representatives of the union and of the company in order to discuss the conditions of employment of union members who were employed by the company. On the 24th July, 1967, he sought a meeting in order to discuss a claim by such members for "a reduction of their weekly working hours without loss of earnings" and on the 30th August those members asked the...