Murchú v Registrar of Companies

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Judgment Date: 01 January 1998
• Court: High Court

- Forms in Irish language - Judicial review -Mandamus - Costs - Forms prescribed by the Minister for Industry and Commerce -Requirement to use forms in the Schedule to S.I. 147 of 1987 or forms similar thereto - Forms available in the English language version, but not available in the Irish language version - Whether respondents under legal obligation to provide forms in the Irish language - Constitution of Ireland, Art. 8 - Constitution of the Irish Free State, 1922, Art. 4 - Companies Act, 1963, s. 396 -Companies (Amendment) Act, 1982, s. 3 -Companies (Amendment) Act, 1983, ss. 3, 59.

The applicant was seeking to incorporate and register an organisation having the name Comhar na Múinteoirí Gaeilge as a company with limited liability without share capital and to that end applied in the Companies office to obtain the appropriate forms in the Irish language version. They were not available to her in that language and following delay and difficulty as to the making available to her of such forms, she commenced proceedings in the High Court to compel the Registrar of Companies to provide her with the appropriate forms. Following the obtaining of leave by her in the High Court to seek...