Swifte v Attorney General for Ireland

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Judge: H. L.
• Judgment Date: 16 January 1912
• Court: King's Bench Division (Ireland)
• Date: 16 January 1912

Swifte

and

Attorney-General.

H. L.

CASES

DETERMINED BY

THE KING'S BENCH DIVISION

OF

THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE IN IRELAND,

AND ON APPEAL THEREFROM IN

THE COURT OF APPEAL,

AND BY

THE COURT FOR CROWN CASES RESERVED.

1912.

Mixed marriage — Penal laws — Extra-territorial operation of statute — 19 Geo. 2, c. 13 (Ir.).

Appeal by the petitioner from the judgment of the Court of Appeal, reported [1910] 2 I. R. 140.

The House of Lords (Earl Loreburn, C., Earl Of Halsbury, Lord Atkinson, and Viscount Haldane) affirmed the judgment of the Court of Appeal, and dismissed the appeal with costs (1).

A. W. Samuels, K.C., and F. H. M. Corbet (of the English Bar) (with them A. M. Bulloch, of the English Bar), for the appellant.

Denis S. Henry, K.C., and E. G. M. Swifte, for the respondent, G. B. M. Swifte, were not called on.

(1) [1912] A. C. 276.