Exploring Ireland as a divergent common law jurisdiction since 1922
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- Lawyers in Practice Series
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- Exploring Ireland as a divergent common law jurisdiction since 1922
- UCD CCLE Distinguished Speaker Series
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- CCLE hosted Professor Neil H Buchanan as a Sutherland Fellow
- Landmark cases in divergence: Ireland as a new common law jurisdiction since 1922
- Digital Markets Act and the Digital Markets Competition and Consumer Bill
- Modern Studies in Commercial Law
- Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Bill
- Judge Patricia Lucas audited and participated in the undergraduate module Lawyers, Legal Ethics and Practice
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- UCD CCCLE won funding under the Decade of Centenaries Internal Award Scheme
- Judges in Ireland and France: Different Routes to Performing Similar Functions in the EU
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- Book Launch: Essays in Memory of Professor Jill Poole
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- Gender Pay Gap Workshop
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- Seminar: “EU nationals’ vulnerability in the context of Brexit: the case of Polish nationals”
- Spotlight On: BREXIT
- Irish European Law Forum
Exploring Ireland as a divergent common law jurisdiction since 1922.
02 December 2024. 9.15am- 4pm
Harty Boardroom, Sutherland School of Law
After 1922, English case law continues to be cited in Irish courts. Nonetheless, the courts in Ireland have delineated some areas of difference from English courts. By more closely reflecting Irish society, Irish courts are evolving, on occasion, common law in a distinctive way. In this, the second workshop in our Divergent Cases Project, the speakers are drawn from within and outside SSoL.
Programme
09:15: Tea/Coffee
09:45: Welcome
10:00: Session 1 Statutory Interpretation and Courts
Chair: Karen Lynch Shally
Keynote Address
‘Courts Interpreting Legal Text’ (tbc)
Mr Justice Frank Clarke (ret’d C.J.),
President of Law Reform Commission
‘Mind the (fair procedures) Gap: Divergence in Statutory Interpretation in The People (DPP) v McGrail [1990] 2 IR 38’
Mark Coen (SSoL)
11:00: Session 2 Irish Courts and Jurisdiction
Chair: Mark Coen
'Landmarks in a Changing Landscape: The Irish Courts System Since 1922'.
Niamh Howlin (SSoL)
'Forum Non Conveniens and EU Law'
Máire Ní Shúilleabháin (SSoL)
'Byrne v Ireland: Judging Walsh J’s divergence through the lens of Irish Nationalism'.
Saoirse Enright (SSoL)
12:00: Session 3 Transactions
Chair: John O’ Dowd
‘Divergent Answers to the Ongoing Land and Housing Question(s)?’
Sarah Hamill (Trinity College Dublin)
‘Fundamental breach in Irish contract law - the end of the (Clayton) Love affair?’
James McDermott (SSoL)
‘A Comedy of Errors? Cooper v. Phibbs’
James Devenney and Andrea Miglionico (University of Reading)
13:00: Lunch
13:45: Session 4 Calculations
Chair: James Devenney
Philp v Ryan (2004)
Sarah Fulham-McQuillan (SSoL)
Glover v BLN Ltd 1973 (Walsh J)
Anthony Kerr (SSoL)
“Lover of cop handler probed over cash”:
Gilchrist v Sunday Newspapers Ltd [2017] IECA 190
John O'Dowd (SSoL)
‘O’Donnell to Cavendish- A Quantum Leap or the Inevitable Next Step?’
Karen Lynch Shally (Maynooth University)
15:55: Concluding Remarks