eIWLR 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.
Serving four million customers in 100 countries, LexisNexis is one of the world’s great information businesses,
providing 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.
In the UK and Ireland alone, 60,000 organisations use LexisNexis services. The business is led by managing director
Josh Bottomley and is the largest and fastest-growing part of Reed Elsevier, the Anglo-Dutch FTSE-100 publisher
and information provider to professional users. 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.
Incorporating a Dictionary of Irish Law, plus the full text of all Irish Acts & Statutory
Instruments from 1922 to the present, Court Judgements, Law Reform Commission reports, Irish
Constitution, Statutory Restatements, Iris Oifigiuil and a comprehensive bibliography of Irish
legal material.
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.
For over 25 years Thomson Round Hall has provided the Irish legal profession with accurate and
reliable information. Thomson Round Hall provides quality information on Irish law 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.
You can order publications online at
www.roundhall.thomson.com and also there is a good set of
links to Irish legal resources on the site. Thomson Round Hall also brings you Westlaw IE — an online database
of Irish legal content you can search to easily find the information you need - see next entry.
The content on Westlaw IE is drawn from 12 looseleaf services, 9 journals and 5 case reports and
includes a comprehensive current awareness service.
Westlaw IE’s content includes:
Over 2,000 case transcripts from Irish Law Reports Monthly
Over 550 case transcripts from Employment Law Reports
Over 3,000 Case Digests from Irish Current Law Monthly Digest and the Irish Law Times
The complete archive of the Irish Current Law Statutes Annotated
The complete archive of the selected Round Hall journals, with each new issue appearing online as it prints
The complete archive of Thomson Round Hall’s unique consolidated legislation services
Essential Current Awareness Service updated daily.
Up-to-date essential information sent to your desktop as “Westlaw IE updates” on a daily, weekly or monthly basis, tailored to your needs.
An archive of unreported judgments from 2000
There are two Account Managers available to provide demonstrations and training to your firm.
Contact Pauline Ward (Dublin account manager) on +353 (0) 87 230 4596 or
Annmarie Breslin (Regional account manager) on +353 (0) 87 978 9779 to arrange a visit.
Visit the site for more information or call Thomson Round Hall on +353 1 662 5301.
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).
In addition to the above, Clarus has commenced an aggressive publishing programme, to publish law books that will
cater for the practitioner, academic and student markets in Ireland, details of which details can be found on their
online catalogue
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.
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.