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Irish Case Law Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 January 2025

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This article by Susan Brodigan at McCann FitzGerald LLP provides an overview of Irish case law, outlining the methods used for researching Irish cases while also giving tips to those new to the profession, or to the Irish jurisdiction.

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legal research legal sources Ireland case law

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Type: Irish Focus
Information: Legal Information Management , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , September 2024 , pp. 153 - 156

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1472669624000343 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Author(s), 2025. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians

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¹ <www.courts.ie/news/ireland%E2%80%99s-courts-are-100-years-old-commemorative-event-held-four-courts-today> Accessed 10 July 2024

² <www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/cons/en/html#part11> Accessed 3 July 2024

³ <www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1924/act/10/enacted/en/html> Accessed 26 June 2024

⁴ <www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1961/act/38/enacted/en/> Accessed 3 July 2024

⁵ Tanya Ní Mhuirthile, Catherine O'Sullivan and Liam Thornton, Fundamentals of the Irish Legal System (Sweet & Maxwell 2016)

⁶ <www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/RoundHall/fundamentals-irish-legal-system.aspx> Accessed 10 July 2024

⁷ <www.irishreports.ie/comp2014/> Accessed 8 July 2024

⁸ <www.courts.ie/judgments> Accessed 3 July 2024

⁹ <www.bailii.org/databases.html#ie> Accessed 3 July 2024

¹⁰ <www.bailii.org/bailii/summary-cases.html> Accessed 8 July 2024

¹¹ <https://irlii.org/ > Accessed 24 August 2024

¹² <www.taxappeals.ie/> Accessed 8 July 2024

¹³ <www.workplacerelations.ie/en/search/?advance=true> Accessed 8 July 2024

¹⁴ <www.ccpc.ie/> Accessed 8 July 2024

¹⁵ <www.cnam.ie/ > Accessed 8 July 2024

¹⁶ <www.ocei.ie/> Accessed 8 July 2024

¹⁷ <https://oic.ie/ > Accessed 8 July 2024

¹⁸ <www.protectionappeals.ie/about-the-tribunal/tribunal-decisions-archive/> Accessed 8 July 2024

¹⁹ <www.pleanala.ie/en-ie/home > Accessed 10 July 2024

²⁰ <https://eregister.ipoi.gov.ie/ > Accessed 8 July 2024

²¹ <https://legaldiary.courts.ie/> Accessed 3 July 2024

²² <www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/RoundHall/fundamentals-irish-legal-system.aspx> Accessed 3 July 2024

²³ <www.bloomsburyprofessional.com/ie/byrne-and-mccutcheon-on-the-irish-legal-system-9781526515100/> Accessed 3 July 2024

²⁴ <www.bloomsburyprofessional.com/ie/digital-resources/ireland-resources/murdoch-and-hunt-s-encyclopedia-of-irish-law/> Accessed 11 July 2024

²⁵ <www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/roundhall/Delany-McGrath-Civil-Procedure.aspx> Accessed 10 July 2024

²⁶ <www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/outgoing-chief-justice-susan-denham-s-valedictory-remarks-1.3170494 > Accessed 10 July 2024.

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Irish Case Law Research

Volume 24, Issue 3
Susan Brodigan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1472669624000343

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