The BAILII and IRLII websites
have undergone significant improvements in recent months.
The British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII)
website is at www.bailii.org
The Irish Legal Information Initiative (IRLII) website is at
www.irlii.org
The Irish material on BAILII and IRLII is processed at
University College Cork Law Faculty and financial support is
provided by UCC Law Faculty, the Law Society of Ireland, the
Arthur Cox Foundation and others.
There are now 1205 High
Court and 566 Supreme Court cases on the BAILII site. While
most of these date from 1997 on, there are a number of
'leading cases' from earlier years. A subject listing of the
leading cases is available at www.cases.irlii.org
A recent feature added to
the IRLII site is the Index of Cases at www.index.irlii.org
This is a unique database of all judgments from 1997 to
date, with links to BAILII versions where available. This
database will act as a supplement to the old Green and Red
Indexes which some of you may have used over the years.
Using the Index
- The Index is organised
by year and by court, sorted chronologically.
- Where the decision has
been reported in either the Irish Reports or the Irish
Law Reports Monthly, the citation for that report is
included. (Note: some cases may have been reported
elsewhere, e.g. the Employment Law Reports; these
citations are not included.)
- Where the decision is
available on BAILII, the BAILII catalogue number is
included; this number is linked to the text of the
decision on BAILII. Recent cases not yet available on
BAILII may be available in the Latest Cases section on
IRLII.
- To search for a
particular decision, simply type the name of the
plaintiff or defendant into the search engine and click
"find". A table of results will be generated.
Netscape Users: The Search Engine on the Index requires
Netscape 6.2 or higher. You can download it free from
Netscape.
- To search while viewing
the index page, either scroll through the index or press
CTRL + F to activate the "Find" function on
your browser and type in the name of the Plaintiff or
Defendant. This will find, in turn, each occurrence of
the name you type in; simply continue clicking on
"Find Next" until you find the case that you
are looking for. Any spelling error will result in a
failure to find the name you are searching for.
- The Titles of the
decisions are given in accordance with the Conventions
of Citation observed in relation to all Irish material
on BAILII. These Conventions should be observed when
searching for a case in the Index; for example,
searching for a case as "DPP" will not return
any results, as this will always be listed as
"D.P.P.".
- Warning: Files are large
(Supreme Court approx 250 KB each, High Court approx 400
KB each); loading may take a little time.
Irish Acts are available at
www.bailii.org/ie/legis/num_act/
with more recent Acts at www.statutes.irlii.org
For Statutory Instruments,
see
www.bailii.org/ie/legis/num_reg/
A new list of more recent SIs available at government
department websites may now be found at
www.ucc.ie/law/irlii/sis.htm
Further information on the
accessing Irish law on the web is available in the Guide to
Irish Law at
www.llrx.com/features/irish.htm
with a more recent version at
www.irishlaw.org/guide/
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