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Author
Title
The Supreme Court / Ruadhán Mac Cormaic.
Published
[Ireland] : Penguin Ireland, 2016.
Call Number
KDK1629 .M33 2016
ISBN
9781844883400
184488340X
184488340X
Description
viii, 456 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)944210346
Summary
It intrigues outsiders, can make governments tremble, and has played a key role in some of the biggest controversies in Irish society. Yet very little is known about Ireland's Supreme Courtone of the most powerful institutions in the country. Who are the judges? How are they appointed? What happens once the door closes and they retreat to their chambers? And how do the judges and government negotiate one of the most delicate relationships in Ireland's power structure? This book the first ever written on the subject is a revealing account of a fascinating institution.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-413) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1
1.
Beginnings
18
2.
Stand-off
36
3.
Separating powers
58
4.
Changing of the guard
72
5.
Vive la revolution!
91
6.
limits of activism
111
7.
In the government's sights
132
8.
McGee v. Attorney General
156
9.
Holding the line
178
10.
Norris challenge
200
11.
trouble with extradition
216
12.
Replacing O'Higgins
241
13.
Putting it to the people
251
14.
X
273
15.
Whelehan affair
299
16.
In the eye of a hurricane
310
17.
New judges, new ideas
326
18.
Hitting the brakes
337
19.
Supreme conflict
353
20.
Detente
371
Afterword
391
Appendix: Judges of the Supreme Court
396
Bibliography
399
Notes
414
Acknowledgements
439
Index
443