text: Law Research Collection http://hdl.handle.net/10197/3656 2015-04-02T09:52:17Z Challenging Exchange Programs: Studying the Common Law and Civil Law Systems in a Joint Law Degree http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6442 Challenging Exchange Programs: Studying the Common Law and Civil Law Systems in a Joint Law Degree Pâris-Dobozy, Marie-Luce The demands of globalization have put greater pressure to internationalize the university law curriculum in order to prepare students as lawyers. This is particularly relevant in the context of the European Union. A particularly challenging type of programme regarded as a potentially useful tool to further the internationalization and integration of European higher education and to make the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) a reality is the joint degree. It is broadly defined as a degree awarded on the basis of completion of a study programme established and provided jointly by two or more higher education institutions, normally located in different countries. This paper offers a case study on a particular joint law degree which involves the study of the two major legal systems of common law and civil law – namely the University College Dublin Bachelor of Civil Law/Maîtrise (Irish/English law and French law) Degree. While emphasis is put on the challenges and benefits of teaching and learning in such a degree, the experience is put into perspective with other exchange programmes involving French legal studies. Sustaining a whole range of exchange programmes in a law school prompts wider reflections on how to meet the paradoxical challenge of diversity and integration in the context of European legal education. 2009-04-01T00:00:00Z EU Asylum Policy: Reception Conditions for Asylum Seekers http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6402 EU Asylum Policy: Reception Conditions for Asylum Seekers Thornton, Liam This case study focuses on reception conditions for asylum seekers in the European Union. 2014-09-01T00:00:00Z Making progress with penal reform http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6339 Making progress with penal reform O'Donnell, Ian Comments on recommendations by the Sub-Committee on Penal Reform supporting a reversal of the expansionist approach to imprisonment in Ireland through: (1) the adoption of a decarceration strategy; (2) substituting community service for prison terms of less than six months for non-violent offences; (3) increasing the standard rate of remission; (4) provision of a modern legislative framework for all forms of early release; and (5) a rebalancing of the system, with greater use being made of open prison and all prisoners being held in decent conditions. 2013-07-01T00:00:00Z Legal scholarship around the world: Traditions, requirements and relevance of Irish/British/Commonwealth scholarship http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6312 Legal scholarship around the world: Traditions, requirements and relevance of Irish/British/Commonwealth scholarship Maher, Imelda 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The Rights of Others: Asylum Seekers and Direct Provision in Ireland http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6293 The Rights of Others: Asylum Seekers and Direct Provision in Ireland Thornton, Liam The system of direct provision for asylum seekers is 14 years old. Direct provision is where asylum seekers are provided with bed and board, along with a weekly allowance of €19.10 per week per adult or €9.60 per week per child. Asylum seekers are not entitled to any other social welfare payments and cannot seek or enter employment, on pain of criminal sanction. Direct provision, introduced in April 2000, came at a time of considerable moral panic about 'welfare abuse' by asylum seekers in Ireland. For over 14 years, this system has existed on an extra-legislative basis and without any in-depth examination, from the Legislature, the Executive or the Judiciary on the impact of direct provision on the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of asylum seekers. Hanna Arendt, in The Origins of Totalitarianism noted that the world sees noting sacred in 'the abstract nakedness of being human'. Using Arendt's views as a starting point, this paper explores Ireland's legal obligations towards those seeking protection in Ireland. Examining our international, European and domestic obligations, the paper will seek to explore whether the system of direct provision complies with fundamental human rights law and norms. With a judicial review of the totality of the direct provision system currently before the High Court, this paper provides an analysis of how 'the right to have rights' for asylum seekers is limited. 2014-12-10T00:00:00Z Conclusion: Explaining coercive confinement in Ireland: Why was the past such a different place? http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6292 Conclusion: Explaining coercive confinement in Ireland: Why was the past such a different place? O'Sullivan, Eoin; O'Donnell, Ian This book provides an overview of the incarceration of tens of thousands of men, women and children during the first fifty years of Irish independence. Psychiatric hospitals, mother and baby homes, Magdalen homes, Reformatory and Industrial schools, prisons and Borstal formed a network of institutions of coercive confinement that was integral to the emerging state. The book provides a wealth of contemporaneous accounts of what life was like within these austere and forbidding places as well as offering a compelling explanation for the longevity of the system and the reasons for its ultimate decline. While many accounts exist of individual institutions and the factors associated with their operation, this is the first attempt to provide a holistic account of the interlocking range of institutions that dominated the physical landscape and, in many ways, underpinned the rural economy. Highlighting the overlapping roles of church, state and family in the maintenance of these forms of social control, this book will appeal to those interested in understanding twentieth-century Ireland: in particular, historians, legal scholars, criminologists, sociologists and other social scientists. These arguments take on special importance as Irish society continues to grapple with the legacy of its extensive use of institutionalisation. 2012-06-01T00:00:00Z Killing in Ireland at the turn of the centuries: contexts, consequences and civilizing processes http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6279 Killing in Ireland at the turn of the centuries: contexts, consequences and civilizing processes O'Donnell, Ian Late nineteenth-century homicides in Ireland had several distinctive characteristics. They took place in every county, were largely a male preserve, and regularly involved elderly victims. Heavy drinking was a factor in many lethal squabbles and workplace disputes sometimes resulted in impulsive, but savage, attacks. Weapon use was uncommon and the range of penalties imposed by the courts was wide. In the closing decade of the twentieth century the overall level of homicide was lower and had become concentrated in and around the major cities. Victims were younger, shootings and stabbings were much more prevalent and sentences were significantly more severe. Alcohol continued to play an important role. This paper sets out what can be gleaned from official sources about the circumstances of killing on the island of Ireland during two decades separated by one hundred years. The emphasis is on the earlier period where, perhaps surprisingly, more complete police records are available. The analysis offers support for the theory of a civilizing process as advanced by Norbert Elias, integral to which is the proposition that spontaneous displays of aggression become less common over time. 2010-12-01T00:00:00Z Penal policy in Ireland: The malign effect of sustained neglect http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6278 Penal policy in Ireland: The malign effect of sustained neglect O'Donnell, Ian The article discusses the penal policy of Ireland that is characterised by a collection of lacks along with growing infatuation with the prison. It informs about acceleration in the imprisonment at a rate in Ireland higher than many other comparator countries. Further it discusses the observed trend with Irish Prison Service (IPS) predictions. 2013-10-01T00:00:00Z Crime and punishment in the Republic of Ireland: A country profile http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6277 Crime and punishment in the Republic of Ireland: A country profile O'Donnell, Ian The colonial origins of the Irish criminal justice system can be seen its buildings, laws, procedures, and practices. When change occurs it is often driven by events rather than emerging from a deliberative process that draws on evidence and expertise. The murders, in the space of a fortnight in 1996, of a journalist and a police officer, led to heightened anxiety about crime and its consequences. This was accompanied by a toughening of the political mood that was translated into a commitment to more police and more prisons. At around the same time, and continuing for a decade, the Republic of Ireland experienced rapid social change, including significant inward migration and greatly increased prosperity. These trends impacted on police, prosecutors, and courts and put new pressures on the prison population. How these challenges are addressed – especially in the context of declining economic resources – will determine the shape of the criminal justice system in the years ahead. 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The Death Penalty in Post-Independence Ireland http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6276 The Death Penalty in Post-Independence Ireland Doyle, David; O'Donnell, Ian The history of capital punishment in post-Independence Ireland has received scant scholarly attention. This essay is an attempt to set out what can be learned about the executed persons, the executioners, and the politicians whose inaction (not reforming the law) and actions (deciding against clemency) brought the two former groups together. The death penalty was deployed strategically against IRA members during the early 1940s as part of a package of legal measures designed to crush subversive activity, but more usually its targets were murderers whose acts had no wider ramifications. One notable aspect of the Irish arrangements was that when a prisoner was to be taken to the gallows an English hangman was always contracted to arrange the 'drop'. Reflecting popular antipathy towards the practice the Irish state was unable to find a willing executioner within its borders. 2012-03-01T00:00:00Z Gallous stories or dirty deeds? Representing parricide in J.M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6273 Gallous stories or dirty deeds? Representing parricide in J.M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World Beirne, Piers; O'Donnell, Ian The most famous play in the history of Irish theater, J.M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World has been oddly neglected in sociology and criminology. This article examines the provenance of the violence around which Playboy's dizzying text swirls, namely, a tragicomic parricide seemingly twice committed. In particular, we ask: is the text plausible? Though Synge's authorial intentions are not open to complete reclamation, we explore first, his self-stated reliance on the actual cases of William Maley and James Lynchehaun and, second, whether the representation(s) of parricide in Playboy more or less accurately reflected the presence and character of parricide at the time the controversial play was being imagined and first performed in 1907. The culture wars and associated media frenzy over the play provide an ever-looming backcloth against which to interpret the meanings of intergenerational violence in a colonial society lurching towards national self-determination. 2010-04-01T00:00:00Z The Life Sentence and Parole http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6272 The Life Sentence and Parole Griffin, Diarmuid; O'Donnell, Ian Taking the life sentence as the new 'ultimate penalty' for many countries, this paper explores the factors associated with the release of life-sentence prisoners on parole. The Republic of Ireland is selected as a case study because it is in the unusual position of being influenced by European human rights norms as well as by the Anglo-American drive towards increased punitiveness. As an apparent outlier to both the human rights and punitive approaches, or perhaps as a hybrid of sorts, the relative impact of the two models can be elucidated. The article also provides an example of how small penal systems can be resistant to broader trends and the value of directing the criminological gaze upon countries where it seldom falls. 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Time and isolation as performance art: A note http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6271 Time and isolation as performance art: A note O'Donnell, Ian In a series of five year-long works the Taiwanese-American artist Tehching Hsieh captured critical aspects of the prisoner's experience including the meaning of time, the rigours of solitary confinement, the impact of homelessness and the pressures of inescapable company. These were performed in unambiguously stark, and deeply personal, terms. In a way these pieces of art might be considered partial prison parables which point to, but do not explicate, lessons from which anyone deprived of their liberty might learn. 2014-04-01T00:00:00Z A family affair? English Hangmen and a Dublin jail, 1923-54 http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6270 A family affair? English Hangmen and a Dublin jail, 1923-54 O'Donnell, Ian; Doyle, David The genealogy of capital punishment in twentieth-century Ireland defies easy articulation, and several aspects of the practice appear especially perplexing in the absence of an appreciation of a precise historical context. It is puzzling, for instance, that Irish politicians couched arguments favoring the retention of capital punishment in terms of its perceived efficacy as a deterrent to potential subversives when the death penalty was imposed almost exclusively for non-political civilian murder. It is puzzling, too, that the taoisigh and ministers who were prepared to allow executions go ahead had not only been comrades with men executed during the revolutionary period, but in some cases, had themselves been sentenced to death. It is puzzling that the sanction was retained after Independence when one considers the "politicization" of capital punishment and the attendant public antipathy toward what was seen as an unfortunate colonial (and civil war) legacy; in the minds of many nationalists, hanging was nothing more than a manifestation of English tyranny. And, finally, it is puzzling that when the need arose to execute a condemned person in Ireland an English hangman was always contracted to arrange the "drop." This final puzzle may, however, be illuminated by a detailed examination of the men who discharged this grisly function. 2014-12-01T00:00:00Z Going home for Christmas: Prisoners, a taste of freedom and the press http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6269 Going home for Christmas: Prisoners, a taste of freedom and the press O'Donnell, Ian; Jewkes, Yvonne This article explores the extent to which prisoners in the UK and Republic of Ireland are permitted to leave prison to join their families for the Christmas festivities. It is argued that the willingness to allow such absences provides insights into divergent penal policies and contrasting socio-cultural attitudes towards prisoners and imprisonment (and, tangentially, the meaning of Christmas). In the Republic of Ireland the use of temporary release (TR) for Christmas – although in decline – has been largely uncontroversial. Even when addressing prisoners who fail to return at the end of their leave, press coverage tends to be discreet and factual. Very different in style and tone are newspapers in the UK which tend only to report prisoner release schemes if the stories can be linked to themes of recidivism, pampered (and dangerous) prisoners and misplaced political correctness. Here the granting of a taste of freedom is characterised by a strong belief in the 19th-Century principle of 'less eligibility' and the implication that prison inmates are an undeserving underclass who should be shown no goodwill at any time of the year. 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The Impact of the Constitution in the Deliberations of the Houses of the Oireachtas http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6248 The Impact of the Constitution in the Deliberations of the Houses of the Oireachtas O'Dowd, T. John This brief survey could not and shall not attempt to survey the Constitution's impact on the deliberations of the Houses of the Oireachtas since 1937. Instead, it will examine a few issues relating to the freedom that members of the two Houses can meaningfully have to act upon their own understanding and interpretation of the Constitution, perhaps one at variance with that which prevails in the Four Courts. 2008-09-01T00:00:00Z Direct Provision and the Rights of the Child in Ireland http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6221 Direct Provision and the Rights of the Child in Ireland Thornton, Liam This article explores the rights of the child and direct provision in Ireland. First, I will outline the key features of direct provision and the concerns expressed about this system from a children's rights perspective. Secondly, I will examine the degree to which Ireland is abiding by international obligations as regards children in direct provision, with a core focus on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Thirdly, I will consider legal challenges to the system of direct provision in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Finally, I will argue for the need to adopt a human rights compliant system that fully respects, protects and vindicates the socio-economic rights of child asylum seekers in Ireland. 2014-11-01T00:00:00Z The Post-Crisis Eurozone: Mapping the Banking Union http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6183 The Post-Crisis Eurozone: Mapping the Banking Union McGrath, Noel This paper will focus on the proposal for the single supervisory mechanism (SSM) published by the European Commission in September 2012. It will describe the structure of the supervisory process envisaged by the Commission's proposal paying close attention to the roles of the European Central Bank (ECB) and European Banking Authority (EBA). 2013-02-28T00:00:00Z The Company Charge Register and the Constitution http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6182 The Company Charge Register and the Constitution McGrath, Noel This article proposes to contribute to the legal literature on company charge registration by systematically analysing the constitutionality of section 104. It will further examine the related, and novel, question as to whether section 104 is compatible with the State's obligations under Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms ('ECHR'). The article is divided into six parts.Part I introduces the company charge register and Part II examines the role which the certificate of registration plays in the operation of the system. Parts III and IV will examine claims made in the existing legal literature that section 104 is contrary to the Constitution and will argue the argument that there is indeed a constitutional infirmity in the section. Part V will consider the compatibility of section 104 with Ireland's obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights. Part VI will examine how the arguments developed in previous sections might inform the proposed reforms contained in the Companies Bill 2012 which at the time of writing is completing its passage through the Oireachtas. A brief conclusion follows. 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z The Certificate of Registration and the Company Charge Register http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6181 The Certificate of Registration and the Company Charge Register McGrath, Noel This article will examine the judicial interpretation of the conclusive evidence rule. It will argue that the current interpretation of section 104 of the Companies Act 1963 is seriously flawed and is based on an incorrect reading of the statutory text. It will also contend that the current interpretation undermines the legislative policy behind the company register and that an alternative interpretation of the section would enhance the operation of registration system. The article is divided into three sections. The first section summarises the existing legislative provisions which established the system of company charge registration. The second section examines a number of reported Irish and English cases which have required the courts to consider the meaning of section 104 or its English equivalents in various different circumstances. The third section presents an alternative possibility for the interpretation of section 104 and argues that this alternative demonstrates greater fidelity to the statutory text as well as offering a more sensible policy outcome in the operation of the company charge register. A brief conclusion follows which includes a discussion of the proposed changes to Irish company law in the Companies Consolidation and Reform Bill 2012. 2013-12-01T00:00:00Z The writ of certiorari and review of summary criminal convictions, 1660-1848 http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6164 The writ of certiorari and review of summary criminal convictions, 1660-1848 Costello, Kevin Judicial review now accounts for over one third of the applications submitted to the Queen's Bench Division. Judicial review has ascended to this point of high prominence over the course of a four hundred year history. That history is the story of the progress since the sixteenth century of the prerogative writs – particularly certiorari and mandamus. Of these prerogative writs, it is certiorari which has the closest connection with the modern process of judicial review. In the early part of its history, from the seventeenth century to the end of the eighteenth century, the writ issued against a wide range of orders made by justices of the peace and specialist agencies like commissioners of sewers. The particular focus of this study is upon its use as a means of invalidating summary convictions. 2012-07-01T00:00:00Z The Convention in the Private Sphere http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6140 The Convention in the Private Sphere Thornton, Liam; Walsh, Judy Convention jurisprudence concerning the private sphere is an especially dynamic field of human rights law. In this short chapter we clarify the meaning of the term 'private sphere', make some general observations on the salience of relevant case law, and then introduce the four substantive chapters. For the purposes of this Part, the term 'private sphere' refers, firstly, to the most intimate aspects of human experience. Addressed directly under Article 8, protection of one's private and family life, is critical for human flourishing. As the chapters in this section demonstrate, the Strasbourg Court has moved beyond traditional human rights doctrine, which tended to consider the inner circles of our lives as a zone to be safeguarded from an overreaching state. Secondly, the term 'private sphere' denotes the application of Convention provisions to the activities of non-state actors. Here too the ECtHR has developed the frontiers of human rights standards in both what Donnelly describes as the partially private sphere (where private actors perform governmental functions or provide public services pursuant to governmental outsourcing or privatisation) and the 'wholly private sphere' (which refers to relationships between private actors). 2014-10-01T00:00:00Z The ECHR, Socio-Economic Disadvantage and Access to Justice http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6139 The ECHR, Socio-Economic Disadvantage and Access to Justice Thornton, Liam; Walsh, Judy This Part addresses the dual, interrelated themes of socio-economic rights and access to justice. Both themes raise questions about the capacity of human rights law to effect positive social change in practice. The indivisibility and interdependence of all human rights is a core feature of the contemporary human rights regime, yet the inadequacy of mechanisms for redressing socio-economic rights violations in particular continues to feature in debates about the potential of transnational and domestic legal systems to combat social exclusion. The four chapters in this section, which are introduced below, tease out how well the Convention and the ECHR Act serve the interests of people living in poverty and other vulnerable populations. Significantly, they interrogate substantive and procedural aspects of European human rights law from the vantage point of such groups. As the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights observes access to justice does not simply correlate with the ability to invoke one's rights, it also encompasses the substance of those rights: Many laws are inherently biased against persons living in poverty, do not recognize or prioritize the abuses they regularly suffer, or have a disproportionately harsh impact on them.For example, in many legal systems, economic, social and cultural rights are not sufficiently protected, and discrimination on the grounds of socioeconomic situation is not recognized. Similarly, issues such as abuses in the informal employment sector or the exploitation of tenants by landlords, all of which disproportionately affect persons living in poverty, are often not legislated against in an effective manner. Meanwhile, actions which are undertaken by persons living in poverty out of necessity, such as sleeping in public spaces or street vending, are criminalized. Hence, reforms aimed at improving access to justice by the poor must not neglect the need to modify or repeal certain laws or strengthen others. 2014-10-01T00:00:00Z Britain must live up to obligations on rights in North http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6138 Britain must live up to obligations on rights in North Thornton, Liam Irish Times Irish Government must ensure any future British Bill of rights and responsibilities must, at least for North, reflect minimum rights protections under European Human Rights Convention 2014-10-27T00:00:00Z The European Convention on Human Rights: A Socio-Economic Rights Charter? http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6132 The European Convention on Human Rights: A Socio-Economic Rights Charter? Thornton, Liam The European Court of Human Rights has shown significant weariness in interpreting the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) as protecting socio-economic rights. Issues of political legitimacy, judicial proprietary and resource allocation would play more heavily on an internationalised court than may be the case within domestic court systems. There are increasing signs that the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) is now recognising the interdependent and indivisible nature of civil and political rights and socio-economic rights. This chapter examines the extent to which the ECHR as interpreted by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has led to a more nuanced understanding and interplay between economic and social rights and civil and political rights. Recent substantive socio-economic rights jurisprudence suggests that the impact of the ECHR in this area has yet to be fully realised. This chapter examines the jurisprudence of the ECtHR under Article 2, the right to life, Article 3, protection from inhuman and degrading treatment and Article 8, right to private and family life, of the ECHR in dealing with socio-economic rights. 2014-11-01T00:00:00Z L'Obligation De Renvoi Préjudiciel En Irlande : Raisonnement Sur Hypothèses En L'Absence De Dispositif National De Sanction http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6063 L'Obligation De Renvoi Préjudiciel En Irlande : Raisonnement Sur Hypothèses En L'Absence De Dispositif National De Sanction Pâris-Dobozy, Marie-Luce One of the most recently debated issues about the preliminary ruling procedure is about State liability for breaches of EU law by the judiciary. Stemming from the implications of three sets of cases by the Court of Justice of the European Union, namely Köbler, Kühne and Kempter, Lucchini and Fallimento Olimpiclub, the issue calls for a reflection on the possibility to sanction at national level a judicial decision not to refer. The issue is of particular relevance since the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that an arbitrary decision not to refer a question for a preliminary ruling theoretically could infringe the right to a fair trial. The work by Laurent Coutron, L'Obligation De Renvoi Préjudiciel: Une Obligation Sanctionnée ?, offers detailed analyses on this issue in nineteen EU Member States, including Ireland. Some legal systems such as Germany regard the preliminary ruling procedure as a right for individuals who are entitled to an appropriate remedy when this right has been infringed by failure to refer by a supreme court which has the obligation to do so. Other countries have started to hint in this direction, for example the French Court of Cassation which has recently decided that the refusal to refer could be regarded as a 'denial of justice' leading to possible State liability proceedings. The report on Ireland is divided in three parts. A first part gives an overview of the practice of preliminary procedure by Irish courts with updated figures and trends. A second part presents preliminary observations about the domestic courts subject to the obligation to refer. The third part analyses the mechanisms aimed at 'sanctioning' the failure to refer by courts against which there is no remedy. While such mechanisms are absent in Irish law, the chapter puts forward two potential options, namely the possibility of judicial review and State liability for a decision not to refer by the Supreme Court, the High Court and instances involving lower courts against which there is no further remedy. 2014-04-01T00:00:00Z R. (Martin) v. Mahony: The History of a Classical Certiorari Authority http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6060 R. (Martin) v. Mahony: The History of a Classical Certiorari Authority Costello, Kevin R. (Martin) v Mahony, a decision of the Irish High Court of 1910, continues to be acknowledged by modern textbook writers as a leading authority for the classical rule that certiorari could not correct error of law. This rule, which considerably reduced judicial superintendence of magistrates' courts, had been established by the English court of Queen's Bench in the 1840s. However, the rule was repudiated by the Exchequer Division in Ireland in the late 1880s, which developed a novel, liberal theory of certiorari. This doctrinal innovation, which was used in overturning convictions under the anti-boycotting statute, the Criminal Law and Procedure Act 1887, appalled sections of Lord Salisbury's government, was disapproved of by the English courts, and split the Irish judiciary. The division caused by the doctrine persisted until 1910 when the Irish High Court, having assembled in banc in Martin's Case in order to resolve the impasse, re-established orthodox English doctrine. 2006-12-01T00:00:00Z Habeas Corpus and Military and Naval Impressment, 1756-1816 http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6059 Habeas Corpus and Military and Naval Impressment, 1756-1816 Costello, Kevin At the start of the Seven Years War in 1756, there occurred an unexpected increase in the demand by impressed soldiers and sailors for habeas corpus. This increased usage occurred in spite of the fact that habeas corpus was a deficient mechanism of judicial review: the scope of review was limited to formal defects appearing on the face of the return; it was unclear whether there was jurisdiction to issue the writ during the extensive times that the court was out of term; and there was no power to issue process of contempt in vacation for disobedience of the writ. Notwithstanding these defects (and the rejection by the House of Lords in 1758 of a habeas corpus bill drafted in order to remedy those faults) the custom of using habeas corpus as an anti-impressment remedy flourished within the navy (and, during the short periods of statutory military conscription, within the army); in the late eighteenth century it was impressed sailors who made up the largest constituency using the writ. This account describes the scope of review and procedure regulating impressment-related habeas corpus. 2008-07-07T00:00:00Z British Imperial Statutes and Irish Sovereignty: Statutes Passed After the Creation of the Irish Free State http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6058 British Imperial Statutes and Irish Sovereignty: Statutes Passed After the Creation of the Irish Free State Mohr, Thomas This is the second of two articles examining the relationship between British Imperial statutes and Irish law in the early years of the self-governing Irish state. The present article examines the assertion that the Imperial parliament at Westminster enjoyed the right to legislate for the self-governing Irish state in the 1920s and 1930s. Successive governments in the Irish Free State denied the validity of this legislative power. This article examines a number of Imperial statutes passed between 1922 and 1931 that purported to apply to the Irish Free State. These Imperial statutes were seen as serious threats to Irish legislative sovereignty and have never been recognised by the Irish courts as being part of Irish law. This article examines how the controversial power to pass Imperial statutes for the Irish Free State provoked a serious Anglo–Irish dispute at a delicate stage in bringing the Irish Constitution of 1922 into force. It attempts to illustrate the profound consequences of this dispute for the 1922 Constitution. The article also examines the complex relationship between Irish law and the Statute of Westminster as an Imperial statute. The controversies over Imperial statutes and Irish legislative sovereignty are examined in the context of earlier periods of Irish history and also in the context of recent developments in twenty-first-century Ireland. This permits a consideration of wider questions as to how concepts of national identity influence the acceptance or rejection of particular sources of law. 2011-04-08T00:00:00Z The Privy Council appeal as a minority safeguard for the Protestant community of the Irish Free State, 1922-1935 http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6057 The Privy Council appeal as a minority safeguard for the Protestant community of the Irish Free State, 1922-1935 Mohr, Thomas 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 analyses relevant caselaw in this area and attempts to illustrate why the Irish appeal became of central importance to the entire British Commonwealth in this period. Historians tend to ignore the existence of the Privy Council appeal as a significant aspect of inter-denominational relations in the early years of the self-governing Irish State. Other commentators have been content to echo the claims made by the Irish governments of the time to the effect that the overwhelming majority of Southern Protestants did not want this purported safeguard of their rights. This article will challenge both of these positions. The overall objective of this work is not to revive forgotten sectarian controversies but to provide new data on the nature of inter-denominational relations in the years that followed the secession of much of the island of Ireland from the United Kingdom. 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Edwards v Chesterfield Royal Hospital - Parliamentary Intention and Damages Caused by Maladministration of a Contractual Dismissal Procedure http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6056 Edwards v Chesterfield Royal Hospital - Parliamentary Intention and Damages Caused by Maladministration of a Contractual Dismissal Procedure Costello, Kevin In Edwards v Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust [2011] UKSC 58 [2012] 2 W.L.R. 55 the Supreme Court addressed the following question: is an employee, who can establish that (a) if a contractual disciplinary process had been correctly administered he would have been exonerated, and (b) thereafter employed until retirement, able to sue for loss of the earnings that he would have acquired until retirement? Three members of the Supreme Court held that such a remedy was not reconcilable with the enactment, originally in the Industrial Relations Act 1971, of a statutory unfair dismissals protection regime. It was Parliament's intention that an employee should not be able to outmanoeuvre the statute's compensation limitation rules by deploying a superior common law remedy. This note considers that reading of Parliament's intention. 2013-01-02T00:00:00Z British Imperial Statutes and Irish Law: Statutes Passed Before the Creation of the Irish Free State http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6055 British Imperial Statutes and Irish Law: Statutes Passed Before the Creation of the Irish Free State Mohr, Thomas This is the first of two articles examining the relationship between British Imperial statutes and Irish law in the early years of the self-governing Irish state. British Imperial statutes represent a potential source of Irish law that has been rejected or ignored by Irish lawyers for over seven decades. This source of law is still perceived to constitute a threat to cherished ideals as to the nature and origins of the self-governing Irish state. The acceptance of Imperial legislation is perceived as being inconsistent with the autochthony of the Irish state. British Imperial legislation also represents a challenge to the assertion that the Irish state came into existence with a position of full legislative sovereignty. This article argues that, although Irish lawyers in the early twentieth century had real difficulties with this potential source of Irish law, they could not reject it with the same confidence as their counterparts in the early twenty-first century. This article focuses on the assertion made by successive British governments that the birth of the Irish Free State in 1922 necessarily entailed the incorporation of a considerable body of existing Imperial legislation into Irish law. It will also examine the contention that this Imperial legislation enjoyed a superior status over Irish law under the provisions of the Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865. This article confines its analysis to Imperial legislation passed before the emergence of the Irish Free State in 1922. A subsequent article will examine the significance of Imperial statutes passed after the creation of the Irish Free State that were intended to apply to that self-governing entity. Both articles raise wider questions as to how concepts of national identity influence the acceptance or rejection of particular sources of law. 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Curtea Europeană a Drepturilor Omului şi dreptul Uniunii Europene, în special Carta drepturilor fundamentale: o gestiune subtilă între ajustări sistemice şi îmbogăţiri reciproc http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6054 Curtea Europeană a Drepturilor Omului şi dreptul Uniunii Europene, în special Carta drepturilor fundamentale: o gestiune subtilă între ajustări sistemice şi îmbogăţiri reciproc Pâris-Dobozy, Marie-Luce 2013-12-23T00:00:00Z Popular Sovereignty and the Use of the Referendum – Comparative Perspectives with Reference to France http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6053 Popular Sovereignty and the Use of the Referendum – Comparative Perspectives with Reference to France Pâris-Dobozy, Marie-Luce Constitutions are bound to evolve. A constitution which cannot change or adapt does not serve effectively its purpose since the values and principles it is based upon need to be 'brought to life' through interpretation, application and incremental revisions: in sum, a successful 'living constitution' has a past, present and future. In this regard, it is remarkable to observe how the Irish and French Constitutions have survived through time as two of the most enduring constitutions in Europe without either becoming a mere 'petrified object of devotion'. 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Paving the Way : Adjustments of Systems and Mutual Influences between the European Court of Human Rights and European Union Law before Accession http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5985 Paving the Way : Adjustments of Systems and Mutual Influences between the European Court of Human Rights and European Union Law before Accession Pâris-Dobozy, Marie-Luce The negotiations on accession of the EU to the ECHR successfully ended on April 5, 2013. While they remain, until accession, autonomous and separate from an institutional point of view, the two European legal orders have not developed in isolation. Just as the CJEU has done vis-à-vis the Strasbourg system, the ECtHR has had to take into account the law emanating from the EU. Accession is admittedly viewed as a simplification, or at least a standardisation, of the relationship between the two European systems and the two courts. However, the pressure put on the ECtHR in this regard must not be overlooked. Having implicitly assumed a leading role in the management of the interaction of the two systems and the interdependence of the two bodies of case law before accession, the ECtHR will formally inherit that responsibility thereafter. This article seeks to contribute to the extensive literature on accession by assessing the case law on the relationship between the ECtHR and EU law prior to accession. In particular, taking stock of the reasoning of the ECtHR helps our understanding of how the court has paved the way for accession and how its EU-related case law is relevant for the further development of the European public order postaccession. 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Europeanization and Constitutionalization: The Challenging Impact of a Double Transformative Process on French Law http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5984 Europeanization and Constitutionalization: The Challenging Impact of a Double Transformative Process on French Law Pâris-Dobozy, Marie-Luce The European construction in its widest sense, whether referring to the integration of the European Union (EU) or the development of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) system, has given rise to interesting processes, namely a process of Europeanization and a process of constitutionalization. Europeanization is an encompassing concept used in political science where the literature on European integration increasingly employs the notion to assess the European sources of domestic politics. It generally refers to a process taking place at, or affecting, the national level whereby domestic adaptation and changes are required by European integration including, in its broadest sense, the legal aspects of the changes. Europeanization thus encompasses Europeanization of law. Europeanization should not be limited to the EU context as Europeanization is more than just EU-ization and can refer to the impact of other institutions or systems which are highly intertwined with the EU in terms of organization and even identity, such as the Council of Europe in the area of human rights. Europeanization also embraces the parallel influence of ECHR law. 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z La Cour européenne des droits de l'homme et le droit de l'Union européenne, notamment la Charte des droits fondamentaux : une gestion subtile entre ajustements systémiques et enrichissements mutuels http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5983 La Cour européenne des droits de l'homme et le droit de l'Union européenne, notamment la Charte des droits fondamentaux : une gestion subtile entre ajustements systémiques et enrichissements mutuels Pâris-Dobozy, Marie-Luce Alors que les négociations d'adhésion de l'Union européenne (UE) à la Convention européenne des droits de l'homme (CEDH ou Convention) sont en cours à la suite de réformes significatives de chacun des ordres juridiques européens, nombreux sont déjà les points de contact entre ceux‐ci. On est bien loin du 'silence' des Traités communautaires sur les droits fondamentaux et de l'apparente étanchéité entre les deux systèmes. S'ils sont encore, jusquʹà l'adhésion, autonomes et séparés d'un point de vue institutionnel, les ordres juridiques européens n'ont pas évolué en vase clos. La question de l'interaction entre le droit de la CEDH et celui de l'UE est connue. Elle a donné lieu, et donne encore lieu avec la perspective de l'arrimage d'un système à l'autre, à une abondante littérature. 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The Implications of the 'No' Vote in France: Making the Most of a Wasted Opportunity http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5982 The Implications of the 'No' Vote in France: Making the Most of a Wasted Opportunity Pâris-Dobozy, Marie-Luce On 29th May 2005, French citizens were asked the following question: "Approuvez-vous le projet de loi qui autorise la ratification du traité établissant une Constitution pour l'Europe?" (Do you approve of the Bill authorizing the ratification of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe?). When French people cast their vote, nine Member States representing nearly half the people of the European Union (EU) had already decided, by parliamentary or referendum method, to ratify the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe (hereby, the Constitutional Treaty). France was the second Member State to ratify by referendum after Spain where approval of the Constitutional Treaty was massive – but turnout low. 54.67% of French voters answered "non" and hence rejected the Constitutional Treaty, even though France was one of the major proponents of the Convention on the Future of Europe which led to the drafting of the Constitutional Treaty. 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Legal Education in Ireland: A Paradigm Shift to the Practical? http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5981 Legal Education in Ireland: A Paradigm Shift to the Practical? Pâris-Dobozy, Marie-Luce; Donnelly, Lawrence Irish legal education is under increasing pressure to reform and reinvent itself in the face of various challenges, especially those implied by the Bologna process. In line with two of the main priorities of the process, namely employability and student-centred learning, a growing number of Irish law faculties have incorporated, or are planning to incorporate, more practice-related components into the law curriculum and, in some cases, a fully fledged Clinical Legal Education programme. This is an important shift in the paradigm of legal education in Ireland which should be welcomed and encouraged by all stakeholders – students, academics, practitioners, judges and those involved in myriad capacities in the administration of justice. In the first part, a comprehensive presentation is given about the general structure of legal education in Ireland dealing with the main legal education providers, academic and professional requirements for legal training, as well as figures on the legal population and the approximate cost of legal education. The second part goes on to consider three views about the role of practice in Irish legal education, namely the 'traditional' view, the 'holistic' view and the 'clinical' view. These schematically presented views reflect different perspectives on the nature and purpose of legal education. They do not necessarily compete with each other, especially the last two which could arguably complement one another in the general renewal that Irish legal education is facing at the moment. The traditional view is that the status quo, i.e., in which practical elements are not a big feature of legal education at third level, has worked well and should, more or less, be preserved. The holistic view encourages the teaching of some element of practical preparation, but that this can best be provided to students by third level institutions through interdisciplinary courses that put law in context. 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Sophie Boyron, The Constitution of France: A Contextual Analysis http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5980 Sophie Boyron, The Constitution of France: A Contextual Analysis Pâris-Dobozy, Marie-Luce The Constitution of France is a welcome addition to the Hart Series on Constitutional Systems of the World. The Series provides up-to-date introductions to the major constitutional systems describing not only the current constitutional rules and structures, but also setting them in their historical and cultural context. This book is written by one of the leading experts in French constitutional law who draws on her line of substantial publications in the area. Boyron offers timely analysis on the seemingly ever sui generis French constitutional system which has undergone significant transformations in the last few years. The object of the book is the current Constitution enacted in 1958 'portrayed by [Boyron] as an innovative hybrid construct whose arrival brought the constitutional stability that had eluded France for centuries'. Two main leads are developed in this regard – one explaining what the current Constitution has achieved in the context of the overall French constitutional history, and the other explaining what the Constitution has achieved in terms of its own existence since 1958, with the significance of the 2008 constitutional reform emphasised throughout. 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The New Horizontal Guidelines: Standardisation http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5783 The New Horizontal Guidelines: Standardisation Maher, Imelda This article provides an overview of how standardisation agreements are viewed under the European Commission guidelines as well as the Commission DG for Enterprise White Paper on Standardisation of Information and Communication Technologies, the latter being a necessary part of the regulatory framework for standardisation agreements in the EU. It suggests that as the guidelines see the pro-competition effect of standardisation agreements as the norm A101 TFEU will not generally be applicable and the antagonistic interface of standardisation agreements and A101 will be exceptional, but a role of A102 TFEU remains. 2014-03-01T00:00:00Z #Direct Provision 14: No Place To Call Home http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5707 #Direct Provision 14: No Place To Call Home Thornton, Liam; Ní Raghallaigh, Muireann; et al. Thornton, Liam Compilation of contributions to a direct provision Blogathon on Human Rights in Ireland (www.humanrights.ie) on 10 April 2014, marking 14 years of the system of direct provision. 2014-05-01T00:00:00Z The Law School: A Sense of Place http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5684 The Law School: A Sense of Place Maher, Imelda An essay setting out the principles and practices that informed the design of the new Sutherland School of Law building by the academic director of the project. 2013-11-01T00:00:00Z More Asylum Seekers in 'Direct Provision' than Prisoners in Jail http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5627 More Asylum Seekers in 'Direct Provision' than Prisoners in Jail Thornton, Liam On April 10th, the system of direct provision for asylum seekers will be 14 years old. In 2000 a system was put in place offering asylum seekers bed and board accommodation, and a small allowance of €19.10 a week per adult, with an additional €9.60 a week per child. The system of direct provision also provides health care through the medical card scheme, education up to the age of 18 for children of asylum seekers or children seeking asylum themselves. Asylum seekers are not entitled to any other form of welfare payment. By the end of April 2000, there were 394 people in direct provision centres. At the start of 2014, there were 4,360 people in direct provision. This compares to a prison population of 4,053 in Ireland in February 2014. There are more than 1,600 people who have spent five or more years in direct provision. Over 3,000 people have been in direct provision centres for two or more years. 2014-04-03T00:00:00Z The system of direct provision & Ireland's obligations under the UN International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights (ICCPR) http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5599 The system of direct provision & Ireland's obligations under the UN International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights (ICCPR) Thornton, Liam The system of direct provision for asylum seekers will be 14 years in operation on 10 April 2014. I contend that the system of direct provision violates a number of rights specifically protected under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR): in particular, the prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment, protection of the right to private and family life, and the right to equal treatment under law. 2014-03-01T00:00:00Z Glossary of terms: Irish asylum law http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5555 Glossary of terms: Irish asylum law Thornton, Liam A glossary of terms on Irish asylum law provided for the Cross Party Group on Direct Provision (Seanad Eireann). 2013-11-01T00:00:00Z Online education and copyright law: A Law Reform Proposal http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5542 Online education and copyright law: A Law Reform Proposal Mohr, Thomas 2008-09-01T00:00:00Z Seasca bliain faoi bhláth: socio-economic rights and the European Convention on Human Rights http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5431 Seasca bliain faoi bhláth: socio-economic rights and the European Convention on Human Rights Thornton, Liam This paper firstly provides an overview of the rights and freedoms contained in the ECHR, before going on to examine in more detail the protection of socio-economic rights under the ECHR. The issue of positive obligations, discrimination and socio-economic rights will be briefly examined, before a sustained review of socio-economic rights and (i) the right to life; (ii) inhuman and degrading treatment; (iii) family and private life; (iv) property and (v) education rights. The ECHR and Ireland: 60 Years and Beyond, UCD, Dublin, 29 June 2013 2013-06-01T00:00:00Z Law, dignity & socio-economic rights: the case of asylum seekers in Europe http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5426 Law, dignity & socio-economic rights: the case of asylum seekers in Europe Thornton, Liam This paper explores the interplay of dignity, law and rights as regards the socio-economic rights of asylum seekers. It does so by posing some questions as regards the extent to which this concept of 'reception' is preferable to the issue of socio-economic rights. This paper is not going to discuss the (rather depressing) situation in different EU member states; rather, this paper considers whether systems and processes of international and European human rights law offer heighted protection for the socio-economic rights of asylum seekers. Part B clarifies some of the terminology that is utilised in this paper, in particular as regards what I mean by the phrase 'asylum seeker' and why I utilise the language of 'socio-economic rights' in preference to 'reception conditions'. Part C, the core of this paper, considers the extent to which the socio-economic rights of asylum seekers are protected at the supranational level under international and European law (both EU and Council of Europe). Part D reflects on the extent that asylum seekers truly enjoy equal protection of socio-economic rights vis-à-vis citizens or legal residents of a state. European Database of Asylum Law Conference (EDAL): Reflections on the Current Application of the EU Asylum Acquis, Dublin, January, 2014 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z What are economic, social and cultural rights? http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5425 What are economic, social and cultural rights? Thornton, Liam The Constitutional Convention, Economic Social and Cultural Rights, Malahide, Co. Dublin, February, 2014 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z


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Rovio's hit mobile game Angry Birds has a new member of the family --
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From what Ive read, MS goal is to have one OS to rule them all. Amd & Intel are hard at working getting the x86 architecture to scale down to tablets and eventually phones. I believe Win 8 arm is a stop gap until this happens. Even google sees the potential if x86 on tablets/phones. Theres an ICS beta for AMD brazos. Thos procs are now at 5W. This is of course just binned chips, but a die shrinknwill get these out with a lower tdp, and better performance.
I like the metro interface. Granted I do not want it as my sole desktop interface, but Win 8 doesnt force you to use it. You can still use the Win 7 style desktop. As far as the xbox goes, I think the metro interface works great. Ibdo think the advert tiles are way to big, and annoying sometimes but it doesnt detract from the overall experience. On the phone I think the metro is the best ui out there.
Apps are limiyed but growing. Incorporating an apps store into Windows 8 is a geat move by MS. Theres also a prohram in beta that will run android apps on Win 8. Ill find the link and post it. Its called blue something. Cant remember.
Once MS has win 8 acceoss all three platforms, developers will not be able to ignore it.
Jnemesh is trolling so just ignore him. As far as Win phone 7 having only 2.5% market share, so what. MS is supporting it, so unlike web os, it will not get tossed. People said the same thing aboutbthe original xbox, and look where its at now. MS wants a paice of this market and they have the resources to do it.
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In small Texas towns, people live close to fertilizer plants with limited safety regulation
There were no sprinklers. No firewalls. No water deluge systems. Safety inspections were rare at the fertilizer company in West, Texas, that exploded and killed at least 14 people this week.
This is not unusual.
Small fertilizer plants nationwide fall under the purview of several government agencies, each with a specific concern and none required to co-ordinate with others on what they have found.
The small distributors — there are as many of 1,150 in Texas alone — are part of a regulatory system that focuses on large installations and industries, though many of the small plants contain enough agricultural chemicals to fuel a major explosion.
The plant in West had ammonium nitrate, the chemical used to build the bomb that blew up the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995, killing 168 people. According to a document filed in 2012 with the Texas Department of State Health Services, the maximum amount of this "extremely hazardous substance" the plant could store in one container was 90 tons, and the most it could have on site was 270 tons. It is unknown how much was onsite at any given time, or at the time of the explosion.
It was also authorized to handle up to 54,000 pounds of anhydrous ammonia, a substance the Texas environmental agency considers flammable and potentially toxic.
"This type of facility is a minor source of air emissions," Ramiro Garcia, the head of enforcement and compliance at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, told The Associated Press.
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No federal agency determines how close a facility handling potentially dangerous substances can be to population centres, and in many states, including Texas, many of these decisions are left up to local zoning authorities. And in Texas, the state's minimal approach to zoning puts plants just yards away from schools, houses and other populated areas, as was the case in West.
That plant received a special permit because it was less than 3,000 feet from a school. The damage from the blast destroyed an apartment complex, nursing home and houses in a four-block area.
State and federal investigators have not yet determined the cause of the disaster, which occurred Wednesday night after a fire broke out at the site after work hours. The explosion that followed could be heard miles away and was so powerful it registered as a small earthquake.
The West Fertilizer Co. stored, distributed and blended fertilizers for use by farmers around the Central Texas community. The plant opened in 1962 outside the rural town of 2,800, but development gradually crept closer. Wednesday night, residents and rescue workers tried to evacuate the area as the fire consumed the plant.
Donald Adair, the plant's owner, said in a statement Friday he was co-operating with the investigation and expressed sympathy for the victims. He has not returned phone calls seeking comment.
Over the years, the fertilizer company was fined and cited for violations by federal and state agencies.
Last summer, the U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration assessed a $10,000 fine against West Fertilizer for improperly labeling storage tanks and preparing to transfer chemicals without a security plan. The company paid $5,250 after reporting it had corrected the problems.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency also cited the plant for not having an up-to-date risk management plan. That problem was also resolved, and the company submitted a new plan in 2011. That plan, however, said the company did not believe it was storing or handling any flammable substances and didn't list fire or an explosion as a danger.
David Gray, an EPA spokesman in Dallas, said the company's plan identified a worst-case scenario as an accidental release of all 54,000 pounds of anhydrous ammonia, which at room temperature is a gas.
"This scenario is a plausible worse-case scenario as gaseous anhydrous ammonia can be lethal," Gray said.
The risk management plan also did not cite a possible explosion of ammonium nitrate, the solid granular fertilizer stored at the site. But that would not be unusual, he said, because ammonium nitrate is not regulated under the Clean Air Act.
The plant's plan said there was no risk of fire or explosion and noted they had no sprinklers, water deluge or other safety mechanisms installed.
"We do not yet know what happened at this facility. The ongoing investigation will inform us on the plan's adequacy," Gray said.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality also dealt with the company and issued a permit for handling anhydrous ammonia, which requires safety equipment the company had told the EPA it didn't have. But TCEQ acknowledged it may never have checked to confirm the equipment was there.
"It's a minor source under the Clean Air Act so it doesn't get much scrutiny at all," said Neil Carman, a Sierra Club clean air expert and chemist who used to work for the TCEQ.
The company's last contact with regulation may have come as recently as April 5, when the Texas Office of the State Chemist inspected the plant. But that agency focuses mostly on ensuring that commercial fertilizers are properly labeled and blended, said Roger Hoestenbach, the office's associate director. His inspectors found no problems, he said, but they would not have checked for safety systems such as sprinklers. That office also provided the company with the required license to store and handle ammonia nitrate and renewed it in September after a summer inspection, he said.
Many other towns in Texas have small fertilizer distributors operating under similar regulations near populated areas.
Matt Murray, owner of ABC Fertilizer and Supply in Corsicana, bought his facility about 15 years ago. It sits in an industrial zone in the town of about 23,700 people, but in a community barely five miles long, it is still not far from the population centre, he said.
"Every little community, town that's in Texas, has one of these," he said.
Murray's facility also has a state license to sell ammonium nitrate.
Even though Murray said he has discussed an evacuation plan with his local fire chief, there is nothing in writing. And he isn't required to have a formal plan. That may be changing now, he said.
"It's been something that's been brewing for years and years, ever since Oklahoma," he said.
Plushnick-Masti, who can be followed on Twitter at https://twitter.com/RamitMastiAP , reported from Houston. Gillum, who can be followed at https://twitter.com/jackgillum , reported from Washington.
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2005 Mercedes-Benz SL-Class User Reviews
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Displaying 1 - 10 of 13 2005 Mercedes-Benz SL-Class reviews.
SM writes:
2005 Mercedes-Benz SL-Class SL55 AMG Review
Performance, Handeling, Style
Poor Navigation System, Number of small repairs
Fantastic Automobile — Fantastic automobile with exceptional performance. The longer I drive the more I appreciate the car. Interior is spacious and designed well with guages that are easy to read. Acceleration is very fast and the car also accelerates well at high speed. Be warned that 80 mph feels like your at 40mph.
Primary Use: Commuting to work
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Hunter writes:
2005 Mercedes-Benz SL-Class SL500 Review
Fast, comfortable, hardtop convertible, sex appeal is through the roof
Lack of seating capactiy, paranoia that comes with driving such an expensive automobile
So Fun — i love driving the SL500. My dad owns one and sometimes I end up driving it, which is far from a bad thing. First of all, I need to say that the folding hard-top in itself is amazing, not only does it represent some incredible engineering on Mercedes' part, but it's also just amazing to get to enjoy all the comforts of a coupe with all the fun a convertible. Secondly, the car drives incredibly, this may be the base model SL but that doenst mean it's not fast. In fact it's still faster than most other cars youre likely to see on a public road. It hugs the road like its glued there and i have never once felt like I was nto completely in control of this car, but it's still really fun to drive. On top of that, for a convertible it's very comfortable, though I dont know for the long term cause i only take it once every month or so. However, for a Mercedes-Benz, its not as relaible as one might think, bu it's still pretty good. After one year of living with, it's only had one minor electrical problem (that was covered by the warranty), so it's really been prety good overall. Amazing car with suprisingly good gas mileage for a V8, I love it.
jrock015 writes:
2005 Mercedes-Benz SL-Class SL55 AMG Review
This car is awesome! it has plenty of power and great throttle response with great breaking. Its definitely a head turner, people love to stare and conversate about it. It is tastefully done.
No back seat for the kids.
Powerful Black Beauty!!! I Love This Car. — For the money there is no replacement for this car. Its in a class of it's own. The SL55 has a big power plant that take you anywhere you want to go as fast as you want to go, but still has the luxury mercedes feel. The look is just Crazy it is just Sick! I love the way its blacked out, and the satin black center and gloss black lips on the wheel are tastefully done. The no emblems was definitely a great idea as well. The suede inserts in the seats look stock. Great Job!! This is truly a hot car and it will sell fast.
Primary Use: Sport/fun (spirited driving, track racing, off-roading, etc.)
jimu writes:
2005 Mercedes-Benz SL-Class SL55 AMG Review
These cars are well built and designed to last so they are a great buy in the used market. You can find them for half to one third of their sticker price of $125,000.
This is a heavy car and its track performance is second to BMW's and other lighter vehicles
Sporty, Fast Two Seater Convertible Luxury Car — Supercharged 5.5 liter delivers 493hp which takes this car to 60mph in 4.5 seconds. When it was first produced this was rocket fast, but today is a second off the standard. The Interior appointment is drawn from the top of the line S class has all the bell and whistles. Air suspension, parktronic sensors, Radar assisted cruise control and many other features that are only today available on other brands. The AMG Sl has used 3 power plants. The early versions used the 5.5 liter supercharged motor then in 2009 Mercedes introduced the normally aspirated 6.3 v8 to the line and in 2013 the 5.5 liter Biturbo was selected. All are great vehicles but the new 2013 and later versions incorporate more aluminum and carbon fiber to help reduce the weight of this car.
Primary Use: Sport/fun (spirited driving, track racing, off-roading, etc.)
Jim writes:
2005 Mercedes-Benz SL-Class SL55 AMG Review
Great buy in the used market. Great fun to drive.
Once you have owned one you will be hooked.
Great 2 Seater Convertible With All The Get Up And Go You Want — The SL55 AMG is high performance, well built luxury car. Much of the interior features are taken from the top of the line S Class car. The SL is a very popular 2 door that new cost in the $125k to $140k range, but are widely available in the used market. These cars can be purchased for half to one third of their sticker price and will run trouble free to well over 100,000 miles.
Primary Use: Sport/fun (spirited driving, track racing, off-roading, etc.)
chango1125 writes:
2005 Mercedes-Benz SL-Class SL500 Review
Beautiful looking car!
I think I got a LEMON. Be careful where you buy the car. Even if it's a MB dealer, you would be surprise how shady they are. Especially Fletcher Jones.
I Haven't Driven It Long Enought To Say Good Or Bad. — I can't really review my car. I bought it last month and the dealer has had it longer then I have. Drove 125+ miles to buy this car at the Mercedes Benz of Ontario and a day after I bought it, the car started having problems. 1) The light came on stating the windshield wiper fluid was low. 2) While driving, the light came on stating the key was not within rage. 3) the trunk would not stay open. 4) The car pulled to the right, took it to the dealer and a week later picked it up. According to the Service personnal, the problems were corrected and the car was checked for any other issues. The next day , after picking it up, I was unable to unlock the car and was stranded, took it back to the MB dealer. Pick it up a week later, the next day the car would not start...stranded again. That was two weeks ago. My car is still at the Dealer. It is obvious the car has issues, but more so the Dealer. It seems that the car was never checked before the dealer put it out for sale. I've had other problems with the car, but more so with Mercedes Benz of Ontario. I've been over promised by them and under delivered. Except for the service gentleman, no one wants to talk to me. If I can give any one a word of advice, please read what othe people have written about the dealer you are considering purchasing your next vehicle.
Primary Use: Sport/fun (spirited driving, track racing, off-roading, etc.)
Bradley writes:
2005 Mercedes-Benz SL-Class SL600 Turbo Review
Wanna be a drag racer? This is the answer...
Not built for track use.
Cruising Has Never Been This Good... — An wolf in sheeps clothing. This is what the SL600 is... With the standard SL500 body and trim, this car is one of the most understated supercars on the market. However, it beats Porsche 996 Turbo's, annihilates BMW M5's and can surely be classed as one of Merc's finest production cars to date. With 368kW under its hood, this bullet (a 2-tonne bullet) catapults itself from 0-100km/h in 4.9 seconds.... thats if the wheels can get enough grip. Brakes on the car are amazing, with solid stopped guaranteed time and time again. Track driving with disappointing. The car was amazing in straight line speed (keeping up with a Lambo Gallardo), but unfortunately its weight and the cornering proved just too much for the brakes and tyres. However, acting like a wannabe "Gone in 60 Seconds" racer on William Nicol proves to be monumentally exciting, and acceleration is relentless, all the way to the 250km/h limit. The build quality is fantastic, with seat cushioning made from amazonian coconut husks, and nappa leather draped all over the dash, middle console and suede roof lining. The cost of owning one of these machines has never been so cheap. Coming in at around R500k-R700k, you have a car that will give most supercars a run for their money, with the comfort and elegance you'd expect from a Bentley.
Primary Use: Sport/fun (spirited driving, track racing, off-roading, etc.)
nvg1972 writes:
2005 Mercedes-Benz SL-Class SL500 Review
just look at it the car speaks for it self
Terence writes:
2005 Mercedes-Benz SL-Class SL500 Review
Maintenance Costs
A Great Car For The Money! — This is an awsome car! But when she wants her hair and nails done it will cost you! Tires alone are over $1700 a set but it is worth it. There is alot of trunk room for this type of vehicle.
Primary Use: Sport/fun (spirited driving, track racing, off-roading, etc.)
Kamran writes:
2005 Mercedes-Benz SL-Class SL500 Review
Handling, comfort, style, attention magnet! Highway mileage awesome....23 - 24 MPG at cruising speed....70-80 mph
City gas mileage not bad for V-8 but the current gas price is murder...since it only takes premium gasoline....and if you have a heavy foot..you WILL get 10 miles a gallon.
Exhilarating Feeling!!! — Bought the car pre-owned 2 years ago. Love it today as much as the first day I bought it. It is really fun to drive. It had 18K miles on it when I bought it and it now has 37K miles and there have been no issues. Gas mileage on highway is great but if you want to have fun with the car then keep your wallet ready at the pump. Performance is wonderful and ride quality is great. Don't regret the purchase at all.
Primary Use: Sport/fun (spirited driving, track racing, off-roading, etc.)
Displaying 1 - 10 of 13 2005 Mercedes-Benz SL-Class reviews.
Reviews From Other Years
1972 Mercedes-Benz SL-Class Reviews
1972 Mercedes Benz 450 Sl (argue If You Like But I Have The Title To Proove The Year)
Absolutely gorgeous a great addition to my collection. This is one car that I would probably never part with. I have yet been able to find out how many of these cars still exist, since so few were act... Read More
1984 Mercedes-Benz SL-Class Reviews
Sweet Little Run-a-bout... Hard Top, Soft Top Or Roadster
Like having three cars in one. What's the weather? Pick a configuration and you are ready to roll. Nice, stiff driver. No slack in anything. My only complaint is the seat does't go back far enoug... Read More
1989 Mercedes-Benz SL-Class Reviews
1989 End Of The Line For Another Mb Roadster 5.6 Liter (560sl) Becoming A Collector Car...
MB can do no wrong in my opinion...Kept long enough in great shape, a 1989 560SL will pay you back...I'm sure as long as it's kept in superb condition...It will never be a Gullwing, but look at the 19... Read More
Classic Benz
I bought this car because I have always thought it was one of the best looking Benz's. It has always been garaged and has low mileage. Maintenance costs are reported high, but if it isn't used, this ... Read More
1994 Mercedes-Benz SL-Class Reviews
A Beautiful And Powerful Road Machine
The 1992 Mercedes500SL Convertable Roadster is an awesome car to own. If you want heads to turn while you are passing by or at a stoplight,This is the car to own . Repairs can be pricy but if you can... Read More
Good Looking Classic Mercedes
Comfortable car to drive. Classic looks and enough power to keep you out of trouble. Great car for top down driving (except winter). Removeable hardtop for winter season. (But does take 2 to put on-ta... Read More
1995 Mercedes-Benz SL-Class Reviews
Great Car For The Price
I had possession of this car for around a month. Driving the car was great. It had that luxury ride in a sport coupe. I guess that's why it cost $120K when it was new back in 1995! The only bad th... Read More
Buy It And Get A Better Job
If you are looking at this in hopes for a review, look at the brief description, as you will get it there. Only thing i forgot to mention is how the parts cost an arm, a leg, a tounge, and your first ... Read More


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