Mayo-Perrott v Mayo-Perrott

JurisdictionIreland
Judgment Date01 January 1959
Date01 January 1959
Docket Number[1955. No. 1183.]
CourtSupreme Court
(S.C.)
Mayo-Perrott
and
Mayo-Perrott

Decree in England for divorce and costs - Parties domiciled in England - Whether order for costs severable from decree of divorce - Whether costs recoverable by action in Irish Courts - Public policy - Constitution of Ireland, Article 41, 3, 2 and 3.

The plaintiff, having obtained a decree for a divorce a vinculo matrimonii in the High Court in England together with the taxed costs of the proceedings against the defendant, and part of the costs being unpaid...

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34 cases
  • G v G
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 9 October 1984
    ...of Article 41 of the Constitution did not preclude the plaintiff from obtaining the relief sought by her. Mayo-Perrott v. Mayo-PerrottIR [1958] I.R. 336 distinguished. 2. That such evidence of the foreign law applicable also established that the court which had made the maintenance order ha......
  • M.H. v G.H.
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 26 February 2015
    ...in the judgment of Dunne J. and do not wish to repeat it at any length. It is worth noting however that in Mayo-Perrott v. Mayo-Perrott [1958] I.R. 336 (‘ Mayo-Perrott’), what was involved was an application to enforce a costs order made on a decree of divorce granted by an English court in......
  • H.A.H. v S.A.A.
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 4 November 2010
    ...v BRENTWOOD SUPERINTENDENT REGISTRAR OF MARRIAGES 1968 2 QB 956 CONLON v MOHAMED 1989 ILRM 523 1987 ILRM 172 MAYO-PERROTT v MAYO-PERROTT 1958 IR 336 EEC DIR 2003/86 FAMILY LAW ACT 1995 S29(1)(A) FAMILY LAW ACT 1995 S29(1)(D) FAMILY LAW ACT 1995 S29(1)(E) EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHT......
  • Clancy v Min Social Welfare
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 18 February 1994
    ...Citations: SOCIAL WELFARE (CONSOLIDATION) ACT 1981 S299 RSC O.90 CONSTITUTION ART 41.3.4 CONSTITUTION ART 40.1 MAYO-PERROTT V MAYO-PERROTT 1958 IR 336 L V L 1978 IR 288 DOMICILE & RECOGNITION OF FOREIGN DIVORCES ACT 1986 S1 DOMICILE & RECOGNITION OF FOREIGN DIVORCES ACT 1986 S5 M (C) V M (T......
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3 books & journal articles
  • Catholicism and the Judiciary in Ireland, 1922-1960
    • Ireland
    • Irish Judicial Studies Journal No. 1-20, January 2020
    • 1 January 2020
    ...Ireland are derived from the people of Ireland’. 48 See Murray (n 8) 72. 49 Irish Independent & Freeman’s Journal , 3 January, 1922. 50 [1958] IR 336. IRISH JUDICIAL STUDIES JOURNAL [2020] Irish Judicial Studies Journal Vol 4(1) IRISH JUDICIAL STUDIES JOURNAL persons… 51 These obiter dicta ......
  • The non-marriage union in private international law
    • Barbados
    • Caribbean Law Review No. 6-2, December 1996
    • 1 December 1996
    ...Brimont v. Penniman (1873) 10 Blatchford Circuit Ct. Rep. 436; Burchell v. Burchett (1926) 58 Ont. L.R. 515; Mayo-Perrott v Mayo-Perrott [1958] I.R. 336; Phrantzes v Argennti [ 1960] 2 Q B 19. Winston Anderson, “Enforcement of Foreign Judgments founded upon a cause of action unknown in the ......
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