Hyland v. Minister for Social Welfare, 18 January 1988
Annual Review of Population Law 15: 65
1988
ISSN/ISBN: 0364-3417 PMID: 12289646 Document Number: 383628
The Court held unconstitutional provisions of the Irish Social Welfare (No. 2) Act 1985, which, in effect, gave lower total unemployment benefits to a married couple than to two single people living together in the same circumstances. It ruled that these provisions violated Article 41.2 of the Constitution, which pledges the State to guard with special care the institution of marriage and to protect it against attack.