Ireland
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.
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
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.