Legal Texts

The Probate Office has introduced changes intended to bring a degree of clarity to probate procedures for practitioners and to increase the efficiency of the Probate Office. These new rules will reduce the likelihood of papers being queried and are intended to make the system more legally robust and relevant.

As with its popular predecessor, Constitutional Law: Texts, Cases and Materials. Second Edition, follows the casebook method in exploring the general principles and themes of Irish constitutional law. Short excerpts from cases and academic materials are seamlessly integrated with the authors’ own expert analysis.

European Union Treaties and related secondary legislation provides students and practitioners with an easy to use and accessible version of the Treaties of the European Union and secondary legislation.

New to this edition Amended Order 84 of the Rules of the Superior Courts came into effect in 2011 Entirely new section on language rights in criminal proceedings and judicial review New section on judicial review warrants (including bench warrants, arrest warrants, search warrants and committal warrants) New section on blameworthy prosecutorial delay in criminal proceedings involving children and the Children Act 2001 New section on judicial review of decisions of the executive concerning temporary release, remission and enhanced remission. All chapters have bee substantially revised and rewritten to incorporate all important recent legislative and judicial developments.

This edition of the bestselling comprehensive textbook on Irish labour law has been fully updated and revised to reflect all the major legislative and case law changes in labour law in Ireland.

Essentials of Irish Law is an engaging, clearly written and comprehensive reference work giving a concise account of the principles of Irish law.

This the fourth edition gives an up-to-date account of the law of evidence in Ireland. The text is of interest to all those working in the Irish legal system, the criminal legal system in particular as well as to policy makers and those studying more general issues related to matters of trial, adjudication and fact-finding in various contexts. It explores the development of a particular Irish dimension to evidence scholarship, which is based on constitutional notions of fairness. In light of the incorporation of the ECHR, this must continue to be influential in this and possibly other jurisdictions. The phenomenon of the Special Criminal Court is considered and ithe Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence and DNA Database System) Act 2014 is also considered in detail.