Leading cases of the twentieth century / edited by Eoin O'Dell.

Dublin : Round Hall Sweet and Maxwell, 2000.

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Law -- Ireland -- Cases.

Law -- 20th century -- Cases.

Law -- 20th century -- Congresses.

Trials.

The importance of leading cases: a critical analysis

The case that fell to earth: Sinclair v. Brougham (1914)

M'Alister (or Donoghue) (Pauper) v. Stevenson (1932)

A desert island case set in the silver sea: the state (Ryan) v. Lennon (1934)

A presumption and four burdens: Woolmington v. DPP (1935)

A new vocabulary for a new constitutional law: United States v. Carolene Products (1938)

An everyday story of country folk (not!): Grealish v. Murphy (1946)

Dusting down equity's armour: High Trees (1947) in perspective

Across the Cherokee frontier of Irish constitutional jurisprudence: the Sinn Féin Funds case: Buckley v. Attorney General (1950)

The power to punish: reflections on Deaton v. AG (1963)

The indigent's right to counsel: Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)

The dangerous idea of Europe: Van Gend En Loos (1963)

Judicial activism, constitutional interpretation and the problem of abortion: Roe v. Wade (1973) and X v. AG (1992)

The Mareva injunction: from birth to adulthood: Mareva Compania Naviera S.A. v. International Bulkcarriers S.A. (1975)

Untying the Gordian (jurisdictional) knot: Bier v. Mines De Potasse (1976)

The triumph of "inexorable logic": DPP v. Morgan (1976)

What rule of reason? Cassis de Dijon (1979): a Flawed locus classicus

The taxation of married women: Murphy v. Attorney General (1982)

Still speaking with a forked tongue? Street v. Mountford (1985)

Accommodating the special needs of the financial markets: R v. Panel on Takeovers and Mergers

Ex Parte Datafin Plc (1987)

Taking the treaty seriously: New Zealand Maori Council v. Attorney General (1987)

The future of the conflict of laws: Can Morguard (1990) point the way?

The citizen, the state and the continuing contruction of the European legal order: Francovich, Bonifaci and Others v. Italy (1991)

Native title and the search for justice: Mabo (1992)

Purposive interpretation and parliamentary materials: Pepper v. Hart (1993)

Psychological suffering and phyisician-assisted suicide: Chabot (1994)

Unbalancing the separation of powers: Clinton v. Jones (1997).

Contains revised papers from the Annual Conference of the Irish Association of Law Teachers, held 9-11 April, 1999.

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