Information about the online services provided by Irish Legal Publishers and also some providers of CPD.
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Irish Legal Publishers Online and CPD|
For Irish CPD see Irish CPD
Firstlaw was founded in January 1998 by Bart D. Daly. It was established to bring Irish law to practitioner in electronic form. Having helped create some of the products described elsewhere on these pages, First Law is now developing a number of niche periodicals in hard copy format with online access from the First Law site.
Justis Ireland
Irish Reports & Digests The database is updated quarterly. The Electronic Irish Reports contain many references to the electronic Law Reports published by Context and The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England & Wales, all of which act as linkable cross-references for all subscribers to the electronic Law Reports.
Irish Case Law Information and Legislation from First Law
Criminal Law Online Service CLOS subscribers also have searchable access to all criminal elements of First Law materials on Justis.
LexisNexis ButterworthsLexisNexis Butterworths provides research and workflow solutions to the legal, corporate, regulatory and tax markets. In the UK and Ireland, the company’s products allow professionals in business, government and academic organisations to reach decisions confidently and manage complex issues such as compliance more effectively. With over 1,000 staff in the UK and Ireland, and 13,000 worldwide, LexisNexis is a global company with global ambitions.LexisNexis draws on a heritage of almost 200 years. In the UK and Ireland, the company is best known for its trusted legal and tax publishing brands Butterworths and Tolley. The business now offers flagship web-based services such as the award winning LexisNexis Butterworths legal and tax research platform and the LexisNexis current awareness business and news aggregation service. These combine access to almost five billion searchable documents from 34,000 trusted sources such as national newspapers, legal case materials and official company records. LexisNexis Butterworths Online can now serve the Irish tax and legal professionals with two menus, as follows: Firstly, Irish Property Law includes specific content on Irish Statutes, leading commentary on relevant property-related law as well as useful precedents which help solicitors work more efficiently. The Irish Property Law Menu Includes:
Secondly, the Irish Tax Menu allows tax practitioners to access Irish tax material. The Irish Tax Menu Includes:
For more information and an online demo please contact: Karen Spink on +353 41 98 01692 or Karen.spink@lexisnexis.ie.
Lendac Data SystemsLendac Data Systems are publishers and distributors of electronic information products particularly in the areas of legislation and taxation. Products include Murdoch's Irish Legal Companion (see below) which is a one stop shop of up to date Irish legal information. Lendac Data Systems also supply a range of other information products in areas such as patents, news, pharmaceutical, chemical, engineering, agriculture and market research.Murdoch's Irish Legal Companion (MILC) is published by Lendac Data Systems who are Dublin based publishers and suppliers of information products to the library and information market. MILC incorporates an up to date Dictionary of Irish Law which gives the reader a definition of around 10,000 words and phrases encountered in an Irish legal context from "a coelo usque ad centrum" to "zoonoses". A key factor in the popularity of this product is the extensive cross-referencing between various aspects of Irish Law including the Dictionary, Acts of the Oireachtas, Statutory Instruments, Court Judgements, Irish Constitution, Law Reform Commission publications, European legislation, Bibliography of legal publications, additional topics and websites etc. For more information, Tel: +35301-6776133 or email milc@lendac.ie.
Round HallRound Hall has provided the Irish legal profession with accurate and reliable information for over 25 years in the form of books, journals, periodicals, looseleaf services, CD-ROMs and online services. It publishes over 15 journals and a comprehensive and constantly expanding booklist. Round Hall is the trading name of Thomson Reuters (Professional) Ireland Ltd.Round Hall also brings you Westlaw IE - an online database of Irish legal content which can be searched to easily find the information you need - see next entry.
Westlaw IEWestlaw IE is the online offering of Round Hall, a Thomson Reuters company. Westlaw IE is an online research tool that lets users carry out legal research quickly and easily. It gives instant access to Irish reported and unreported case law, legislation, journals and legal news. Customised search engines allow users to get the most accurate and reliable search results possible.Here is a summary of the content on Westlaw IE: Over 21,000 full text case reports - The largest Irish collection of case reports available online:
------------ Clarus PressClarus Press is a Dublin based publishing house established in March 2005. To-date, Clarus has published two innovative and highly practical legal journals, the Quarterly Review of Tort Law (Editors Dr Ciaran Craven and Professor William Binchy) and the Irish Business Law Quarterly (edited by Aillil O’Reilly BL) with other journals planned for later in 2006/7, including the eagerly awaited Irish Human Rights Law Review (edited by Donncha O’Connell). Clarus publishes law books for the practitioner as well as academic and student markets in Ireland, details of which can be found here. Free content can also be accessed through the Clarus Press website, including the full archive of the Independent Law Review. You can also download sample chapters from selected texts as well as sample articles from the Business and Tort journals mentioned above - see here.
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