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Supreme Court of Ireland Decisions

This BAILII (British and Irish Legal Information Institute) website provides free access to decisions of the Irish Supreme Court from 1998 onwards. The cases can be browsed alphabetically by party name or by date. The site features a sophisticated search facility supporting searches of this and other databases available on the site. Decisions are published in full-text HTML format, with links to the relevant legislation. Also included are a number of earlier landmark decisions taken from the University College Cork, Law Faculty's Leading Irish Cases database.

Irish legislation

A BAILII database of statutes passed by the Oireachtas, the Irish Parliament, from 1922 onwards. Acts are listed alphabetically and by year and there is also a search facility. The collection is made freely available on the internet as part of the British and Irish Legal Information Institute service.

William Fry Solicitors

Internet site for the Dublin based law firm, William Fry solicitors. The site promotes the work of the firm with background information on practice areas, employment opportunities, apprenticeships, publications and partner profiles. A selection of in-house articles are presented in PDF dealing with legal topics relating to Ireland. These include asset mangement, environmental law, insurance, investment, tax and property. There is also a legal news bulletin giving details of legal developments in Irish law.

McCann Fitzgerald Solicitors

Website for one of Ireland's largest law firms. The site describes and promotes the work of the firm, highlighting areas of current specialisation in banking and financial services. "Legal Update", an electronic newsletter, appears twice yearly on the site. Legal Briefings provide information on specific subjects and can be downloaded as PDFs from the site or requested by email. Recent briefings have looked at export of cultural goods, investment funds in Ireland and Irish merger control.

Courts Service Ireland

Official website of the Irish Courts Service, providing judgments of the Supreme Court (from 2001), the High Court and the Court of Criminal Appeal (2004 onwards) in a searchable or browseable database. Background information on the history and work of the courts is available, together with court rules, forms, practice directions, news items and a diary of current and future cases. Information pamphlets and statistics are also provided and there is a glossary of legal terms.

British and Irish Legal Information Institute

The British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII) provides free access to legislation, cases, law reform reports and other legal materials from the United Kingdom, Jersey, Ireland, the European Court of Human Rights, the European Court of Justice and the EU's General Court. The cases are from the higher courts and tribunals; most date from the last two decades or so, but BAILII also provides a collection called Leading Case Law by Subject, and many of these cases are much older. Materials may be browsed by jurisdiction, title and year.

Legal Island

Legal Island website, providing links to solicitors firms, bar councils, legal databases including those containing legislation, court judgments and sites to assist those engaged in legal research concerning the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The site provides an index of linked resources for both jurisdictions. The pages are maintained by Legal Island Ltd., a company involved in legal conferencing, training and information delivery.

Law Society of Ireland

Website of the Law Society of Ireland. The Society, established in 1773, works to improve access to the law generally and also provides representation, services and support for solicitors. It exercises statutory functions in relation to the education, admission, enrolment, discipline and regulation of the solictors' profession. The site provides an overview of the work of the society and of the legal profession in Ireland.

Kieron Wood's pages

Website of Kieron Wood, a barrister practising in Dublin, Ireland. The site contains articles, features and information on Irish legal matters. There are sections dealing with family law and civil law covering divorce, marriage, links to Irish family legislation, citizenship, labour law and defamation law in Ireland. There is a glossary of legal terms, contact details for other Irish barristers and a page of links to Irish legal sites.

British and Irish Association of Law Librarians

The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL) was formed in 1969 to represent the interests of legal information professionals and others involved in law librarianship. The website has background information about the aims and history of the organisation, membership information and details of events, conferences and courses. There is also careers information relating to legal information work and a 'Job Board'.

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