Brian DoolanLecturer in Legal Studies, Faculty of Business, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
ISBN13: 9780754621690
ISBN: 0754621693
Published: April 2003
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Hardback
Price: Out of print
A study of the first case in which the European Court of Human Rights exercised its jurisdiction. It includes a critical analysis of the pleadings and verbatim records and concludes that the findings of the Court led to a miscarriage of justice.
Contents:
European Convention of Human Rights and Ireland; Ireland's constitutional and legal framework; governmental responses to resurgence of political violence in Ireland; Lawless's detention and his pursuit of domestic remedies; European Commission of Human Rights admits the Lawless application; European sub-Commission of Human Rights report;Lawless Case referred to the European Court of Human Rights; judgement of the European Court of Human rights; postscript; Lawless Case in retrospect.
