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Researching Irish Legislation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 January 2025
Abstract
In this article, Sinéad Curtin, Legal Knowledge Manager in the Chief State Solicitor's Office, provides a guide to the free and subscription sources for researching Irish legislation. She explains how legislation is enacted, how to determine if it's in force and whether it's been amended. She also looks at tracking legislation, the transposition of EU directives and statutory interpretation in general. The article concludes with a list of sources for Irish legislation.
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- Type
- Irish Focus
- Information
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- Copyright © The Author(s), 2025. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians
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1 Curtin, Sinéad and Steen, Alice, ‘Researching Irish Law – A Guide to Legislation, Caselaw and Commentary Sources’ (2011) 11 Legal Information Management 185CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Thanks to Jean Cassidy, Information Manager, Chief State Solicitor's Office, for her help with this article.
2 Curtin and Steen (n 1) 185.
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6 Constitution, Article 15.1.2.
7 Constitution, Article 34.3.3. See Gerard Hogan and others, Kelly: The Irish Constitution (5th edn, Bloomsbury 2018) para 6.2.416.
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11 Law Reform Commission, Accessibility of Legislation in the Digital Age (LRC 125 – 2020) para 2.5.
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23 Crilly v T & J Farrington Ltd [2001] IESC 60, [2001] 3 IR 251.
24 Dodd, David, Statutory Interpretation in Ireland (Bloomsbury 2008)Google Scholar; Gerard Hogan and others, Kelly: The Irish Constitution (5th edn, Bloomsbury 2018); Hogan, Gerard, Morgan, David Gwynn and Daly, Paul, Administrative Law in Ireland (5th edn, Roundhall 2019)Google Scholar. See also Heather Hill v An Bord Pleanála [2022] IESC 43 [105] – [220], [2022] 2 ILRM 313.
25 Bailey, Diggory, Bennion, Bailey and Norbury on Statutory Interpretation (8th edn, LexisNexis 2020)Google Scholar; Greenberg, Daniel, Craies on Legislation (12th edn, Sweet & Maxwell 2020)Google Scholar.
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27 Examples include Kerry Co Council v An Bord Pleanála [2014] IEHC 238 [19] and Riordan v Irish Financial Services Appeals Tribunal [2024] IECA 3 [31].
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29 (LRC 125 – 2020) para 6.96.