Courts on rare occasion have looked at Continental European decisions of Superior Court. It cannot be expected, given the human rights jurisdiction of the UK Supreme Court, that its decisions may be considered, in some contexts, constitutional interpretation.<\/p>\n
Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights are persuasive authority in the analysis of constitutional rights. In AO & DL v Minister for Justice, Fennely J said that it was not valid to deduce from the fact of compatibility with the European Convention that an impugned act complied with the constitution. It may conversely be possible to argue persuasively that the act, which satisfied the minimum standards of European Convention, should not likely be considered compatible with the more rigorous demands of the Constitution.<\/p>\n
Under EU law, courts may refer issues of interpretation of EU law to the European courts by way of preliminary reference. EU law takes precedence over inconsistent domestic law in accordance with the principles of EU law itself. See sections on EU law.<\/p>\n
Article 29.4 provides that the EU Treaties and legislation adopted under them or measures to which the State is obliged to adopt because of EU membership may not be declared unconstitutional.<\/p>\n\n
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Presumption of Constitutionality The presumption of constitutionality reflects the proposition that those asserting a position must bear the onus of proving their claim. The Courts presume that the Oireachtas is aware of and has legislated in accordance with the Constitution. Generally, courts do not wish to readily strike down legislation, given its disruptive effect on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26884,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/26884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}