Re M., (an Infant)

JurisdictionIreland
Judgment Date21 June 1946
Date21 June 1946
CourtHigh Court
(H.C.),
In re M., an Infant

Habeas corpus - Illegitimate child - Rights of the mother - Welfare of the child.

Some days after its birth in 1943, the prosecutrix gave her illegitimate child into the custody of the respondent, together with a sum of £60. The respondent, a married woman with no children, did not meet the prosecutrix, but received the child from the nurse in whose home the child was born. Before the birth of the child the prosecutrix had arranged through the doctor that the respondent should "adopt" the child. The respondent had the child...

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    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 1 January 1985
    ...Ch. 238. 3 Dickinson v. North-Eastern Railway Co. (1863) 33 L.J. Ex. 91. 4 Woolwich Union v. Fulham Union [1906] 2 K.B. 240. 5 In re M. [1946] I.R. 334. 6 G. v. An Bord Uchtála [1980] I.R. 32. 7 The State (Nicolaou) v. An Bord Uchtála [1966] I.R. 567. 8 L. v. L. [1978] I.R. 288. 9 McGee v. ......
  • O.R v an tArd Chláraitheoir
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 7 November 2014
    ...in Article 42.5 and also the further right, again like all other children, to free primary education as referred to in Article 42.4. ( In Re M. (An Infant) [1946] 1 I.R. 334; Nicolaou and G. v. An Bord Uchtála). How these particular rights come to vest in such child is probably better expla......
  • G v an Bord Uchtála
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 1 January 1980
    ...v. O'S. (1974) 110 I.L.T.R. 57. 8 Quinn's Supermarket v. The Attorney General [1972] I.R. 1. 9 J. v. C. [1970] A.C. 668. 10 M., In re [1946] I.R. 334. 11 Ryan v. The Attorney General [1965] I.R. 294. 12 McGee v. The Attorney General [1974] I.R. 284. 13 McDonald v. Bord na gCon [1965] I.R. 2......
  • Gorry v Minister for Justice and Equality and A B M v Minister for Justice and Equality (1), Gorry v Minister for Justice and Equality and A B M v Minister for Justice and Equality
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 23 September 2020
    ...Duffy P. as long ago as 1946 that children had the same rights under the Articles, whether marital or non-marital: Re M. (an Infant) [1946] I.R. 334. 67 It is not difficult to see that an intimate relationship of some permanence where the two people treat themselves, and are recognised by o......
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