Quinn's Supermarket v Attorney General

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Court: Supreme Court
• Judgment Date: 01 January 1972
• Docket Number: [1968. No. 432 P.]
• Date: 01 January 1972

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Trading -Ministerial order exempting Kosher-meat shops from restrictions on hours of trading applicable to other shops selling meat - Discrimination -Rules governing the eating of Kosher-meat an essential element of Jewish religion - Constitutional guarantees of free profession and practice of religion an' against discrimination on the ground of religious profession - Whether guarantees conflict - Victuallers' Shops (Hours of Trading on Weekdays) (Dublin, Dun Laoghaire and Bray) Order, 1948 (S.I. No. 175 of 1948), Arts.2, 4 - Shops (Hours of Trading) Act, 1938 (No.3), s. 25 - Constitution of Ireland, 1937, Articles40, 44.

The second plaintiff was the managing director of the first plaintiff which was the proprietor of a meat shop. The second plaintiff was being prosecuted in the District Court, on the complaint of the second defendant, for having kept the meat shop open in the evening of a weekday in contravention of an Order made in 1948 by the third defendant pursuant to powers vested in him by s. 25 of the Shops (Hours of Trading) Act, 1938. The Order of...