electronic Irish Weekly Law Reports
gives you access to all written (reserved) judgments of the Superior Courts
from July 1998, including some Circuit Court judgments. Created by Bart D. Daly, BL,
editor of Irish Times Law Reports since 1989. eIWLR is designed to follow the
exact tabulation of every page and paragraph of the original judgment, an added
bonus for accuracy in citation and brief preparation. In addition, Lendac have
added all National Acts and Statutory Instruments, thus offering a comprehensive
Irish eLegal service. The benefits of our electronic law reports known as eIrish
Weekly Law Reports (eIWLR) are as follows:
Comprehensiveness in coverage. The average number of written judgments from the
Superior Courts is 450, eIWLR cover all of these. This eradicates the "unreported judgment".
eIWLR covers four times the number of cases in ILRM and over three times that of Irish Reports.
Reasonably priced. On comparison of our CD price vs. ILRM the latter is more expensive.
Based upon other case law services, our product price is low.
Current data. eIWLR Online is updated with new material every Wednesday.
These updates are clearly stated on the Online version, enabling the user check
the new additions.
Unique information. eIWLR also covers the Circuit Court decisions when written
judgments are available. For example, eIWLR delivers a number of Judge Buckley's decisions.
Firstlaw
was founded in January 1998 by Bart D. Daly, BL its Managing Director.
It was established to bring Irish law to practitioner in electronic form.
It's first product was it's Legal Current Awareness Service which came to the
market in January 1999. In January 2000 it launched electronic Irish Weekly Law Reports - see above.
Justis and The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for Ireland provide an electronic version of the
Council's publications on CD ROM and online. The reports contain the full text data of published cases from
1919 (but see also below). The
Digests provide a reference to each case reported in:
The Irish Reports
Northern Ireland Reports
Irish Law Reports Monthly
Irish Law Times Reports
Irish Jurist Reports
Irish Law Journal
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.
News as of July 2008....Justis are exclusively extending their coverage of the
Irish Reports on Justis by 81 years,
all the way back to 1838. They also become the first publisher to offer the authoritative case reports
as printable PDFs replicating original pagination.
Sinéad Ní Chúlacháin, Editor of the Irish Reports at the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for Ireland,
said: “We are delighted that we can finally make our comprehensive archive of 170 years of reports of the
Superior Courts of Ireland available in a user-friendly, accessible PDF database. The expanded Irish Reports
on Justis will provide an invaluable tool and the addition of pre-independence reports will be of particular
interest to other common-law jurisdictions”.
She added that the inclusion of PDFs would be a “boon to court practitioners” and that lawyers in
Northern Ireland would now have access to reports from the pre-Partition Irish Courts. Given the two-way
binding precedent of that era, the material will also be particularly pertinent to lawyers in England and
Wales. Extending the archive by over 7,000 cases, the expanded section of the database, along with PDFs
for the full range, will be available late summer; while many PDFs of the existing cases are already in place.
LexisNexis 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:
Irish Property Statutes
Irish Property: Landlord and Tenant
Irish Land Law
Casebook on Equity and Trust
Irish Conveyancing Law
Irish Law of Specific Performance
Irish Conveyancing Precedents
Intangible Property Rights in Ireland
Co-ownership of Land
Irish Stamp Duty Legislation
Secondly, the Irish Tax Menu allows tax practitioners to access Irish tax material.
The Irish Tax Menu Includes:
Irish Tax Acts
Irish VAT Acts
Irish Capital Tax Acts
Irish Tax Treaties
Irish Tax Reports
Judge Irish Income Tax
Feeney: The Taxation of Companies
Irish Stamp Duty Law
The service also contains Revenue Commissioners information, including:
Tax briefings and supplements
Guidance notes on TCA 1997
Statements of practice
Information leaflets
Precedents released under the Freedom of Information Act
Published by Tottel Publishing Ltd, an independent publisher unconnected with the Reed Elsevier Group of Companies
For more information and an online demo please contact:
Karen Spink on +353 41 98 01692 or
Karen.spink@lexisnexis.ie.
Lendac 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 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 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:
Employment Law Report (ELR) Begins 1990
Irish Law Reports Monthly (ILRM) Begins 1976
Irish Law Times Reports (ILTR) Begins 1871
Sweet & Maxwell’s Human Rights Law Reports (UK) Begins 2000
Sweet & Maxwell’s European Human Rights Law Reports Begins 1979
Unreported Judgments Begins Oct 2002
Case digests coverage
Case digests from Irish Law Times Begins 1983
Irish Current Law Monthly Digest Begins 1995
Legislation (as amended) with annotations from 1984
Consolidated legislation in the following areas:
Criminal
Road Traffic
Local Government
Family
Employment
Company
Commercial
Insurance
Consolidated Rules of the Court and Court rules and forms (as amended) with commentary: Superior Court; Circuit Court; and District Court
Journals – Expert opinion and analysis in the following:
Commercial Law Practitioner Begins 1994
Conveyancing and Property Law Journal Begins 1996
Dublin University Law Journal Begins 1994
Irish Criminal Law Journal Begins 1991
Irish Employment Law Journal Begins 2004
Irish Planning and Environmental Law Journal Begins 1994
Irish Law Times Begins 1983
Irish Journal of Family Law Begins 1998
Journal of Civil Practice and Procedure Begins 2005
The Hibernian Law Journal Begins 1999
The Medico-Legal Journal of Ireland Begins 1995
Content from Round Hall, Sweet & Maxwell, the Courts Service, and the EU
Current Awareness information and the latest news direct to your email account
Case law
Legislation
Unreported Judgments
Legal and regulatory news
European Union
Government publications
Clarus Press
Clarus 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.
Law Society of Ireland run CPD courses over a wide
range of topics, intended to balance theory and practicality and to meet the day-to-day practice needs
of the profession. Courses may also be of interest to members of the public. Many courses can be booked online and
some courses are available by video link.
First CPD is a new website for Irish Lawyers providing CPD online. The
concept of obtaining CPD online has only just been approved by the Irish Law Society and even now it only
allows 2 hours of the 10 hours requirement to be obtained online.
However, Irish independent publisher Bart Daly, who runs
First Law (which was the first company to bring provide online legal material
in Ireland) is now taking a leading role in the new CPD company and he is well placed to do so.
He is working with a global provider or e-learning solutions,
Prime Learning to offer these courses.
Initial courses include Employment Law, Judicial Review and Tort and courses for Accountants are also available.
The Law Society of Ireland has entered into a contract with First Law and Prime Learning Ltd.
for the purposes of designing and producing these e-learning courses.
Irish Legal Publishers Online and CPD online