Mahon v Celbridge Spinning Company Ltd
| Jurisdiction | Ireland |
| Court | Supreme Court |
| Judgment Date | 24 January 1967 |
| Date | 24 January 1967 |
(S.C.)
Mahon
and
Celbridge Spinning Co. Ltd
Contributory negligence - Whether plaintiff entitled to particulars - Rules of the Superior Courts, 1962, O. 19, rr. 3, 6 -Civil Liability Act, 1961, s. 34.
The tests applicable to the determination of a plaintiff's motion for further and better particulars of a defendant's plea of contributory negligence are the same as those applicable to the determination of motions for particulars of any other pleading. So held by the Supreme Court (Haugh, Walsh and...
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59 cases
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Allied Irish Banks Plc v AIG Euope Ltd
...at the trial. This was made clear by Fitzgerald J. (as he then was) in the Supreme Court in Mahon v. Celbridge Spinning Co. Limited [1967] I.R. 1 at page 3. (d) Thus, as Henchy J. noted in the Supreme Court in Cooney v. Browne [1985] I.R. 185 at p. 191, where a pleading is so general or s......
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Brendan Byrne and Paul Byrne v Radio Telefís Éireann
...TELEGRAPH LTD SUB NOM LEWIS v DAILY TELEGRAPH LTD 1964 AC 234 1963 2 AER 151 1963 2 WLR 1063 WILLIAM MAHON v CELBRIDGE SPINNING CO LTD 1967 IR 1 PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE Particulars Defamation - Libel - Innuendo - Fair procedures - Mahon v Celbridge Spinning Co Ltd [1967] IR 1 followed - Or......
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IBB Internet Services Ltd and Others v Motorola Ltd
...Whether appropriate to put forward alternative inconsistent pleas - McGee v O'Reilly [1996] 2 IR 229, Mahon v Celbridge Spinning Co. Ltd. [1967] IR 1, Philipps v Philipps (1878) 4 QBD 127, Phonographic Performance (Ireland) Ltd v Cody [1998] 4 IR 504 and Church v Adler (1953) 350 Ill App......
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Quinn Insurance Ltd and Others v Tribune Newspapers Plc and Others
...of pleadings, generally, is probably best set out in a passage from the judgment in the case ofMahon v. Celbridge Spinning Company Ltd. [1967] I.R. 1, a decision of the Supreme Court in which Fitzgerald J. at p. 3 thereof stated: "The whole purpose of a pleading, be it a statement of claim,......
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Being Particular About Particulars
...the courts are more likely to be vigilant to ensure the proper object and purpose of seeking particulars is preserved. Footnotes 1 [1967] IR 1. 2 [2013] IEHC 3 [1984] IR 185, 191. This article was first published by International Law Office on 23 July 2013 The content of this article is int......