This article examines the relationship between Irish law and British Imperial law in the 1920s and 1930s. Its primary focus concerns the question of whether the Colonial Laws Validity Act, 1865 applied to the Irish Free ...
In the early twentieth century the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council acted as the final appellate court for most of the territories of the British Empire. Its area of jurisdiction has gradually declined since the ...
Considers the requirements in the Anglo Irish Treaty 1921 on the appeal to the Privy Council, the resulting provision in the Constitution and Irish petitions heard by the Privy Council. Examines the Erne Fishery case and ...
Mohr, Thomas(Queen's University Belfast. School of Law, 2012-10)
This article examines the history of the appeal from the Irish courts to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council as a purported safeguard for minority rights in the Irish Free State during the inter-war years. It ...
R.L. Sandes’ Criminal Practice, Procedure and Evidence (Irish Free State), published in 1930, was its focus on Irish case law and legislation. This novel approach was justified as "the logical consequence of our detached ...
This article examines the career of Lord Cave and his influence on the history of the Irish Free State within the British Empire. Cave was a controversial figure in Anglo Irish politics in the early twentieth century. ...
The self-governing Irish state has had two Constitutions since its secession from the United Kingdom. Both of these Constitutions suffer from difficulties of image and identity. The circumstances that surrounded the adoption ...
Mohr, Thomas(The Dublin Solicitors Bar Association, 2014-12)
Irish legal history went up in smoke on 30 June 1922. The explosion of munitions and resulting fire at the Irish Public Records Office at Dublin’s Four Courts marked a tragic end to the first act the Irish civil war. One ...