Former Chief Justice Gerard Brennan stated that " so long as we retain the existing system our head of state is determined for us essentially by the parliament at Westminster.

Many noted barristers, judges and politicians were members of the Inn during this period, including Gilbert Gerard, Master of the Rolls, Edmund Pelham, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, and Francis Bacon, who served as Treasurer for eight years, supervising significant changes to the facilities of the Inn and the first proper construction of the gardens and walks for which the Inn is noted.

James Gerard " Gerry " Collins ( born 16 October 1938 ) is an Irish retired Fianna Fáil politician, who served in a wide number of Cabinet poistions, most notably as Minister for Justice and Minister for Foreign Affairs.

* Gerard Brennan, Justice and later Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia

Sir Francis Gerard Brennan, AC, KBE, QC ( born 22 May 1928 ) is an Australian lawyer, judge and tenth Chief Justice of Australia.

* Gerard Brennan, former Chief Justice of Australia, current Justice of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal

In 1655, Cromwell appointed three Commissioners of the Great Seal of Ireland, Richard Pepys, Chief Justice of the Upper Bench, Sir Gerard Lowther, Chief Justice of the Common Bench ; and Miles Corbet, Chief Baron of the Exchequer.

On 8 September 2005, Justice Gerard Winter declared that Raj and Pal had no case to answer and dismissed the charges.

On 31 August, Justice Gerard Winter decided to adjourn until 30 September the hearing of the lawsuit of former FLP parliamentarians Lekh Ram Vayeshnoi and Gaffar Ahmed, after defence lawyer Akuila Naco asked for more time to prepare his case.

Brennan is the son of Sir Gerard Brennan, a former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia.

At a court appearance on 15 September 2005, High Court Justice Gerard Winter refused an application from Silatolu's lawyer, Inoke Josefa, to require the Military to produce the results of an inquiry it had conducted into the 2000 crisis, accepting their objection that it could compromise national security.

* 1906 – William J. Brennan, American Supreme Court Justice ( d. 1997 )

Five judgments were delivered in the High Court, by ( 1 ) Justice Brennan, ( 2 ) Justice Deane and Justice Gaudron, ( 3 ) Justice Toohey, ( 4 ) Justice Dawson, and ( 5 ) Chief Justice Mason and Justice McHugh.

In a brief concurrence in the judgment of Torres v. Puerto Rico, U. S. Supreme Court Justice Brennan, argued that any implicit limits from the Insular Cases on the basic rights granted by the Constitution ( including especially the Bill of Rights ) were anachronistic in the 1970s.

Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. asserted that " if there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea offensive or disagreeable.

Justice Brennan suggested that public officials may sue for libel only if the publisher published the statements in question with " actual malice " — " knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not.

In Furman v. Georgia,, Justice Brennan wrote, " There are, then, four principles by which we may determine whether a particular punishment is ' cruel and unusual '.

Justice Brennan also wrote that he expected no state would pass a law obviously violating any one of these principles, so court decisions regarding the Eighth Amendment would involve a " cumulative " analysis of the implication of each of the four principles.

Justice Arthur Goldberg ( joined by Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justice William Brennan ) expressed this view in a concurring opinion in the case of Griswold v. Connecticut ( 1965 ):

" In dissent, Justice William Brennan argued that the need to preserve military discipline should not protect the government from liability and punishment for serious violations of constitutional rights:

Indeed, as Justice Brennan observes, the United States played an instrumental role in the criminal prosecution of Nazi officials who experimented with human subjects during the Second World War, and the standards that the Nuremberg Military Tribunals developed to judge the behavior of the defendants stated that the ' voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential ... to satisfy moral, ethical, and legal concepts.

On June 19, 1987 the Supreme Court, in a seven to two majority opinion written by Justice William J. Brennan, ruled that the Act constituted an unconstitutional infringement on the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, based on the three-pronged Lemon test, which is:

The Supreme Court granted review, and in a sweeping and unanimous decision authored by Justice Brennan, the Supreme Court held not only that states do not have authority to tax Indians on Indian reservations, but that they also lack the authority to regulate Indian activities by Indians on Indian reservations.

Justice Brennan, author of the majority opinion in Craig v. Boren, provided a brief but notable dissent based solely on Section 2.

See San Diego Gas & Electric Co. v. City of San Diego, 450 U. S. 621, 638 n. 2 ( 1981 ) ( Justice Brennan dissenting ); United States v. Clarke, 445 U. S. 253, 257 ( 1980 ); Agins v. City of Tiburon, 447 U. S. 255, 258 n. 2 ( 1980 ).

Seventy years later, when the U. S. Supreme Court banned prayer from the public schools in 1963, the Edgerton Bible Case was one of the precedents cited by Justice William Brennan.

Famous participants include Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, activist and first lady Michelle Obama, and professors Erwin Chemerinsky and Laurence Tribe.

In a landmark case, the European Court of Justice ( ECJ ) ruled on 5 July 1994 against the British practice of importing produce from northern Cyprus based on certificates of origin and phytosanitary certificates granted by the de facto authorities.

For example, Justice Harlan in 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson landmark Supreme Court opinion, wrote, ' There is no caste here.

In December 2008 in a landmark decision the European Court of Justice ruled that:

As Minister of Justice, Pierre Trudeau was responsible for introducing the landmark Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1968-69, an omnibus bill whose provisions included, among other things, the decriminalization of homosexual acts between consenting adults, the legalization of contraception, abortion and lotteries, new gun ownership restrictions as well as the authorization of breathalyzer tests on suspected drunk drivers.

In Escola, now widely recognized as a landmark case in American law, Justice Traynor laid the foundation for Greenman with these words:

In the landmark decision Nixon v. General Services Administration former Chief Justice of the United States William Rehnquist declared in his dissent the need to " fully describe the preeminent position that the President of the United States occupies with respect to our Republic.

In 1998, Chief Deputy U. S. Marshal ( now inactive ) Matthew Fogg won a landmark EEO and Title VII racial discrimination and retaliation lawsuit against the Justice Department, for which he was awarded $ 4 million.

Justice Frank Murphy considered the reversal to be an important personal landmark.

The Mayor of Quebec City, Jean-Georges Garneau, in 1908 appointed a landmark commission under the chairmanship of Chief Justice of the Quebec Superior Court François Langelier.

The power of judicial review was asserted by Chief Justice Marshall in the landmark Supreme Court Case Marbury v. Madison ( 1803 ).

California formerly had Justice of the Peace courts staffed by lay judges, but began phasing them out after a landmark 1974 decision in which the Supreme Court of California unanimously held that it was a violation of federal due process ( under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution ) to allow a non-lawyer to preside over a criminal trial which could result in incarceration of the defendant.

The Fountain of Justice is a historic landmark in Bacolod City, Negros Occidental, Philippines.

In his dissenting opinion in the landmark environmental law case, Sierra Club v. Morton, 405 U. S. 727 ( 1972 ), Justice Douglas argued that " inanimate objects " should have standing to sue in court:

The Innocence Project was established in the wake of a landmark study by the United States Department of Justice and the United States Senate, in conjunction with the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, which found that incorrect identification by eyewitnesses was a factor in over 70 % of wrongful convictions.

According to Chief Justice of the United States Earl Warren's papers, Burton was influential in bringing about the Supreme Court's unanimity in the landmark desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education.

Justice Harlan supported many of the Warren Court's landmark decisions relating to the separation of church and state.

In a Court of Appeal judgment in February 2005, in a landmark ( HOCKENJOS v. SOS JGT ) ruling, Lord Justice Ward declared " To allow a father nothing for the maintenance of the child when he shares care virtually equally is so unfair that no reasonable secretary of state should countenance it.

The landmark nature of the case ( for good or ill ) was alluded to by Justice Sandra Day O ' Connor, who " described the Court's decision as a ' Number 10 earthquake.

In the 1960s, the Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas handed out two landmark case decisions in favor of youth rights, Tinker v. Des Moines and In re Gault.

See's high-profile divorce from his wife Elizabeth in 1962 resulted in a landmark community property opinion, written by Chief Justice Roger J. Traynor of the Supreme Court of California for a unanimous court.

On 18 June 2009, the Court of Appeal in England and Wales made a landmark ruling that resulted in the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, allowing the first-ever criminal trial to be held without a jury by invoking Section 44 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003.

MSLF ’ s best known litigation involved the Constitution's equal protection guarantee, which resulted in a 1995 landmark ruling that Time Magazine called “ a legal earthquake .” In Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Peña, Justice Scalia wrote, “ In the eyes of government, we are just one race here.

The International Court of Justice has provided some insight into the determination of the legal status of a document in the landmark case of Qatar v. Bahrain, 1 July 1994.