Little and Others v Cooper and Others (No 2)

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Judgment Date: 16 July 1937
• Date: 16 July 1937
• Court: High Court (Irish Free State)

[H. C., I.F.S.]

Little

and

Cooper and the Attorney-General (No. 2)

Representative action -Whether persons not parties to the action are amenable for disregard of the order of the Court.

The plaintiffs obtained an injunction perpetually restraining the defendants, their servants and agents, from fishing the entire tidal portion of the waters of the River Moy to which they were declared by the Court to be entitled. Certain persons, not parties to the action, but with knowledge of the existence of the order of the Court granting the injunction, together with certain of the defendants (other than the Attorney-General) fished the plaintiffs' portion of the River Moy, without leave. Held, thatthe...