Patrick Joseph Mcdonagh v Governor of Mountjoy Prison

JurisdictionIreland
JudgeMr. Justice Gerard Hogan,Mahon J.
Judgment Date20 March 2015
Neutral Citation[2015] IECA 71
Judgment citation (vLex)[2015] 3 JIC 2001
CourtCourt of Appeal (Ireland)
Date20 March 2015

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11 cases
  • Freeman v Governor of Wheatfield Place of Detention
    • Ireland
    • Court of Appeal (Ireland)
    • 16 November 2016
    ...by effluxion of time. 14 The issue was considered by this Court in the judgment of Hogan J. in McDonagh v. Governor of Mountjoy Prison [2015] IECA 71, when he observed as follows, under the paragraph headed ‘Whether the sentence of imprisonment has now expired by effluxion of time?’:- ‘It w......
  • O'Brien v Moriarty
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 12 July 2016
    ...to the Court of Appeal; (e) the doctrine of mootness is ?but a rule of judicial practice? per McDonagh v. Governor of Mountjoy Prison [2015] IECA 71; (f) the decision sought to be impugned is still a ?live issue' as the relationship between the appellant and the respondent has not yet concl......
  • Freeman v Governor of Wheatfield Prison
    • Ireland
    • Court of Appeal (Ireland)
    • 15 June 2016
    ...that sentence continues to operate in the absence of the prisoner was raised in this court in McDonagh v. Governor of Mountjoy Prison [2015] IECA 71. In his judgment in that case, Hogan J. took the view that it was undesirable in that particular case to consider whether the appeal was moot ......
  • McDonagh v Governor of Mountjoy Prison
    • Ireland
    • Court of Appeal (Ireland)
    • 17 February 2016
    ...this appeal should nonetheless proceed, if only by way of exception to the mootness doctrine: see McDonagh v. Governor of Mountjoy Prison [2015] IECA 71. The background to the application 3 In order to understand the manner in which the legal issues presented by this application properly ar......
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