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Needles and Haystacks: Legal Information Sources in Ireland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2019

John Furlong
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Ireland is a small common law jurisdiction with a devolved legal system. These two factors combine to present a number of significant problems with regard to legal information sources:

• Devolution has promoted incremental and incidental change. There has been little systemic review and the law is a complex mix of amendment, addition and judicial review.

• Much of our legislation is reactive to social or political requirements.

• Until recently, sources of law have not been prioritized as an important national resource requiring investment in terms of review and access.

• Consolidation is infrequent and ineffective. Codification has only recently been considered.

• Current sources of modern Irish law have been substantially shaped by major historical events of the last three centuries. Today's Irish legal system and sources of contemporary law owe a lot to the pragmatic adoption and adaptation of the Westminster model and the English common law as it stood in the early twentieth century.

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International Journal of Legal Information , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , Summer 2001 , pp. 435 - 450
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Copyright © 2001 by the International Association of Law Libraries 

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