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Contents
Gateways
Irish Government, Department of Justice & Related Agencies
Irish Constitutional Law
Irish Courts Service
Irish Law Resources
Institutes, Associations & Professional Bodies
United Kingdom
European Union Law & World Legal Information
Law Reviews
Irish Law Publishers
Other Law Publishers
Other Libraries

 

 

Gateways:

British & Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL)
A site established for legal information professionals and librarians, it contains a classified directory of useful law links.

 

 

Irish Government, Department of Justice & Related Agencies

Irish Government and State Information
Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
An Garda Síochána
Courts Service
Criminal Law Codification Advisory Committee 
Equality Authority
Equality Tribunal
Forensic Science Laboratory
Garda Síochána Complaints Board
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission
INIS (Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service)
Irish Prison Service
Legal Aid Board
National Crime Council
National Disability Authority
Office of the Data Protection Commissioner
Office of the Film Censor
Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner
Private Security Authority
Probation Service
Property Registration Authority
Reception and Integration Agency
Law Reform Commission of Ireland: an independent body established under the Law Reform Commission Act 1975. Its overall function is to keep the law under review and make recommendations for its reform

The Competition Authority : a statutory body with a specific role to enforce Irish competition law.
Office of the Attorney General : Official Website of the Attorney General of Ireland who is the legal adviser to the government and chief law officer of the State. The website gives an account of the role and duties of the Attorney General and the work of other offices within the Office of the Attorney General including the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel to the Government, the Office of the Chief State Solicitor and the Statute Law Revision Unit.
Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Office of the Information Commissioner - information on the Freedom of Information Act in general and, in particular, on the role of the Office of the Information Commissioner - access to make on-line appeals to the Information Commissioner
Office of the Ombudsman
Personal Injuries Assessment Board - a statutory body providing independent assessment of personal injury compensation for victims of workplace, motor and public liability accidents.

 

 

Irish Constitutional Law

 

Irish Statute Book : The Irish Statute Book database comprises the Acts of the Oireachtas, Statutory Instruments and Chronological Tables of the Statutes for the period 1922-2005
The Constitution of the Irish Free State (Saorstat Eireann) 1922

The Constitution of Ireland (Bunreacht na hEireann) 1937

 

 

Irish Courts Service

Irish Courts Service, with the legal diary online, information about courts nationwide, links and an interactive map of the Four Courts.

Irish Electronic Court Reports - Contains written judgments made available by the Supreme Court from the year 2001, the Court of Criminal Appeal from the year 2004 and the High Court from the year 2004.

 

 

Irish Law Resources

 

Irish Legal Information Initiative – Contains all statutes from 1922 to present, all statutory instruments from 1922-1998, All Supreme Court Decisions from 1998 – present, all High Court decisions from 1996 – present, all decisions of the Court of Criminal Appeal from 2004 – present, all Competition Authority decisions from 1992 – present, all Information Commissioner decisions from 1998 – present and all Law Reform Publications from 1999 – present. Also has full decisions of all leading cases categorised in subject areas.

British and Irish Legal Information Institute(BAILII) : comprehensive, up-to-date cases and legislation from Ireland (north and south), England & Wales and Scotland, with a search engine.
Legal Resources in the UK and Ireland, from Delia Venables
FindLaw site, Irish Law pages with links to articles and information about Ireland.

Legal Island : Irish and Northern Irish legal information in the area of Irish employment law.

IrishLaw site :one of the original and most comprehensive sources of Irish law on the Net. It includes the IrishLaw list, an e-mail discussion list on Irish and Northern Irish law, with a fully searchable index of all IrishLaw messages.

 

 

Institutes, Associations and Professional Bodies

 

The Honorable Society of King’s Inns: provides a course of education and training that enables its students to be admitted to the degree of barrister-at-law and to be called to the Bar of Ireland.
Bar Council of Ireland
The Law Society of Ireland
Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Irish Branch: the authority on the regulation, administration, training and promotion of arbitration on the island of Ireland.
CCBE (The Council of the Bars and Law Societies of the European Union)
Union International des Avocats
International Bar Association
International Association of Prosecutors

 

 

United Kingdom

Acts of Parliament
British & Irish Legal Information Institute :access to full text case law and legislation
Parliament : includes access to full text debates and bills
UK Government: links to departments and agencies
United Kingdom Official Publications (UKOP)

 

 

European Union Law & World Legal Information

http://www.europa.eu/ - The European Union Online
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/en/index.htm - EUR-Lex provides direct free access to European Union law. The system makes it possible to consult the Official Journal of the European Union and it includes inter alia the treaties, legislation, case-law and legislative proposals. It offers extensive search facilities.
European Court of Justice : includes full text cases
European Parliament : includes full text debates and reports
European Court of Human Rights: information on the court, its’ procedures, case-law, reports and pending cases.
Council Of Europe: Treaties and Conventions of the Council of Europe.

World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII)  

 

 

Law Reviews

Trinity College Law Review.
Galway Student Law Review.
Irish Student Law Review – King’s Inns.
Cork Online Law Review.

 

 

 

Irish Law Publishers

 

Blackhall Publishing
Clarus Press
Competition Online
CUP - Cork University Press
FirstLaw
Four Courts Press
Gill & Macmillan
Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for Ireland
Publishers of the Irish Reports, Irish Digests 1894-1999 and selected textbooks
Institute of Taxation in Ireland
Irish Academic Press
Oaktree Press
Round Hall Ltd.
 

 

Other Law Publishers

Lexis Nexis
Sweet & Maxwell
Thomson Roundhall
Prentice Hall
Thomas Telford : construction books with relevance to contract law
Elsevier (Butterworth)
Pearson
Wiley
Blackwell
McGraw-Hill
Palgrave Macmillan

 

 

Other Libraries
 

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies(IALS)
The Honorable Society of King’s Inns
Law Society of Ireland
Library of the European Court of Human Rights
Institutes of Technology library catalogues
IRIS - Consortium of Irish university & research libraries
NUI Maynooth
Text Access Catalogue (for students with print disabilities)
COPAC - University research libraries in UK & Ireland
OPEN University
Carlow County Library
Irish Public Library Catalogues Online (search individual catalogues)
InterSearch - Irish Public Library Catalogues (search multiple catalogues)
Northern Ireland Publications Resource
British Library Public Catalogue
The European Library
Library of Congress USA
Libraries Australia
Libdex - Index to 17,000+ libraries worldwide

 

 

PAGE AUTHOR:  Brigid Carey Liaison Librarian to School of Business & Humanities.

 

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