Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (Ireland) Ltd v Grogan and Others; Case C-159/90

JurisdictionIreland
JudgeFINLAY C.J.,WALSH J.,McCarthy J.,
Judgment Date01 January 1990
Neutral Citation1989 WJSC-SC 2447
CourtSupreme Court
Docket Number346/89,[S.C. No. 346 of 1989]
Date01 January 1990

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    • Ireland
    • Court of Appeal (Ireland)
    • 7 March 2023
    ...issues in a case where the issues require to be decided. In that regard, he relies on the decision in Society for the Protection of Unborn Children Ireland v. Stephen Grogan & Ors [1990] ILRM 350. In my view, what was in issue in Grogan has no real relevance to the present case. It will be......
  • Application of Maguire
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 9 July 1996
    ... ... 2) ... The Minister for Justice, Ireland and The Attorney General, Notice Parties ... detachment of the judge and jury trying the case. Application of Ellis ... , this deponent, have no means of self-protection and that I believe Mr. Gallagher will carry out ... In S.P.U.C. v. Coogan, the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child was ... ...
  • D.W G. and Another v Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 26 June 2007
    ... ... Imigration - Asylum - Subsidiary protection - Judicial review - Injunction - European ... of the respondent that there was an arguable case that the interpretation placed on the regulations ... University, when in fact he was in Ireland throughout the period. He claimed to have been ... I have been referred to the case of The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children v. Grogan ... ...
  • S.P.U.C. v Grogan (No. 4)
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 1 January 1994
    ...but did not overturn the decision of the High Court to refer the questions to the European court. (Those proceedings are reported at [1989] I.R. 753) The European Court of Justice gave judgment on the 4 October, 1991. It ruled (see [1991] E.C.R. 4685 at p. 4742 of the report): "1. Medical t......
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4 books & journal articles
  • The Relevane of Constitutional Rights to the Granting of an Interlocutory Injunction
    • Ireland
    • Hibernian Law Journal No. 12-2013, January 2013
    • 1 January 2013
    ...an appropriate case to enjoin an action based on a statute which might eventually be held to be unconstitutional. 43 35 S.P.U.C. v Grogan [1989] IR 753, p.765 36 Foley v Sunday Newspapers [2005] IR 88, p.101. In that case the plaintiff sought an interlocutory injunction restraining the defe......
  • Measúnú ar Thodhchaí an Dlí ar Ghinmhilleadh in Éirinn
    • Ireland
    • Cork Online Law Review No. 15-2016, January 2016
    • 1 January 2016
    ...8 An tAcht um Chosaint na Beatha le linn Toirchis 2013 [Acht 2013 amach anseo]. 9 [1992] ILRM 411. Féach freisin ar SPUC v Grogan (No 1) [1989] IR 753; Case C-159/90 SPUC v Grogan (No2) [1991] ECR I-4685; SPUC v Open Door Counselling [1988] IR 593. 10 Gerard Hogan & Gerry Whyte, Kelly: The ......
  • The Triangular Constitution: Constitutional Pluralism in Ireland, the EU and the ECHR by Tom Flynn
    • Ireland
    • Hibernian Law Journal No. 19-2020, January 2020
    • 1 January 2020
    ...into the Irish legal order is judged in 6 Crotty v An Taoiseach [1987] IR 713. 7 Society for the Protection of Unborn Children v Grogan [1989] IR 753. 166 ciarán donohue accordance with the ‘scope and objectives’ test formulated by the Supreme Court in Crotty; similarly, in Grogan, the Supr......
  • Revolt or Revolution - a Hartean analysis
    • Ireland
    • Trinity College Law Review No. V-2002, January 2002
    • 1 January 2002
    ...The Constitutional Boundaries of the European Community (Round Hall, Sweet & Maxwell, 1997), at 10. 2 [1987] IR 713; [1987] ILRM 400. [1989] IR 753, at 768-9. 'Internationale Handelsgesellschaft mbH v. Einfuhr-und Vorratsstelle fur Getreide und Futtermittel (Case 11/70) [1970] ECR 1125; [19......