Irish Planning and Environmental Law Journal

This text provides a comprehensive, practitioner-focused analysis of the law of negligence in Ireland, with comparative relevance to England and Wales. It begins by examining the foundational elements of negligence, including duty of care, standard of care, breach, causation, remoteness, defences, and damages, grounding each topic in Irish case law while situating it within broader common law developments. Building on these core principles, the book addresses complex and evolving areas of negligence law, including economic loss, psychiatric harm, contributory negligence, statutory negligence, and strict or absolute liability. It examines how negligence interacts with statutory duties, constitutional and human rights norms, and regulatory regimes, with particular attention to environmental damage, data protection, and state liability. Detailed consideration is given to procedural and remedial issues, such as burden and standard of proof, limitation periods, apportionment of liability between concurrent wrongdoers, and the full range of damages available in negligence claims, as well as the growing role of settlement and alternative dispute resolution. The later sections adopt a forward-looking and comparative perspective, analysing negligence in emerging and high-risk contexts. The book also explores the boundaries between civil and criminal negligence, including gross negligence manslaughter, and considers negligence within governmental schemes and public policy frameworks. Overall, the book is designed to function both as an authoritative reference for practitioners and institutions and as a structured, practice-oriented resource for students and trainees.

• Clear, authoritative, and easy-to-navigate reference work providing in-depth analysis and practical interpretation of the law of negligence.
• Fully up to date, incorporating all significant Irish case law, key UK authorities, and relevant statutory provisions.
• Structured around the core elements of negligence—duty of care, standard of care, breach, causation, remoteness, defences, and damages.
• Provides detailed, practitioner-focused analysis of leading and recent cases, with explanation of principles, trends, and unresolved issues.
• Examines negligence across a wide range of practical contexts, including professional negligence, medical negligence, public body liability, occupiers' liability, road traffic accidents, sports and recreational activities, and employer liability.
• Includes comprehensive treatment of complex and high-risk areas such as economic loss, psychiatric harm, contributory negligence, statutory negligence, strict liability, and fatal injury claims.
• Analyses the interaction between negligence and statutory, constitutional, and human rights obligations, including environmental damage, data protection breaches, climate litigation, and state liability.
• Provides clear guidance on procedural and remedial issues, including burden and standard of proof, limitation periods and discoverability, apportionment of liability, and the assessment of damages.
• Addresses emerging and developing areas of negligence law, including artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, pandemic response, and long-tail environmental harm.
• Offers comparative insights from England and Wales and other common law jurisdictions, assisting practitioners dealing with cross-border or persuasive authorities.
• Designed to save time by presenting complex doctrines in a concise, structured, and practical format suitable for use in litigation preparation and advisory work.
• Gives practitioners confidence when advising clients, drafting pleadings, and preparing submissions by clearly setting out the current state of the law and areas of uncertainty.
• Helps reduce the risk of costly or time-wasting errors by identifying common pitfalls, evidential challenges, and strategic considerations in negligence claims.

This new edition of Organisation of Working Time provides comprehensive coverage of the Working Time Directives, including those covering the transport sectors, together with the relevant Statutory Instruments and the fully consolidated and annotated text of the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997. The volume also incorporates the European Commission's revised Interpretative Communication on Directive 2003/88/EC.

Since the publication of the first edition in 2019, there have been important decisions of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the High Court, the Labour Court and the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) adjudication officers on the status of on-call/standby time, paid annual leave, banded hours and recording working time. Additionally, members of the Defence Forces are now brought within the ambit of the 1997 Act.

Features:

1. Clear and accessible analysis providing essential interpretation and practical guidance
2. Comprehensive and current coverage of all relevant case law
3. Transparent presentation of legislative amendments and repeals, accompanied by expert commentary on practical application

New Material in This Edition

New cases include, but are not limited to:

1. Case C-344/19, DJ v Radiotelevizija Slovenija
2. Case C-580/19, RJ v Stadt Offenbach
3. Case C-107/19, XR v Dopravní podnik
4. Case C-214/20, MG v Dublin City Council
5. Walsh v Kerry County Council [2023] IEHC 719
6. Labour Court determinations DWT207, DWT2229, DWT231, and DWT2312
7. WRC decisions ADJ-00040093, ADJ-00043800, ADJ-00051058, and ADJ-00054194

New legislation includes: S.I. No. 686 of 2022 and S.I. No. 11 of 2025.

The Code of Practice on the Right to Disconnect is also covered.

Comprehensive analysis of safety, health and welfare at work law in Ireland

This fully updated and completely reorganised edition of Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Law in Ireland provides a comprehensive analysis and commentary on this increasingly complex and developing area of law. The text begins with a series of chapters that analyse the risk-based principles that are the basis for the general duties of employers, and their managers, in the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005. The author then proceeds to discuss in detail more than 30 specific workplace safety and health topics, which will allow readers to have a complete understanding of the essential elements of the law.

Key features
Among the key features of the text are:

• Analysis of the risk-based and management-based statutory duties in the 2005 Act that apply to all employers and in all places of work, whether in the private sector or public sector;
• The role and functions of the Health and Safety Authority (HSA), the lead national regulatory body for workplace safety and health, including the increased focus on prosecutions on indictment under the 2005 Act, in which the average fine in 2024 was over �110,000;
• Discussion of the derivative personal criminal liability of managers in the 2005 Act, including the Supreme Court�s view on the meaning of �manager� where management functions are delegated in medium and large organisations;
• Extensive reference to Approved Codes of Practice (ACoPs) and other authoritative guidance from the HSA;
• Discussion of the general principles of employer�s civil liability for workplace injuries and illness, including the role of the Personal Injuries Resolution Board (PIRB), and the impact of the 2021 Personal Injuries Guidelines made under the Judicial Council Act 2019;
• Detailed analysis of over 30 workplace safety and health topics, including the relevant Regulations that apply to them, as well as extensive reference to case law addressing both criminal liability and civil liability; and
• Full coverage of the common hazards and risks that are reported annually to the HSA, as well as emerging workplace safety and health issues, such as the challenges and opportunities provided by AI, hybrid working arrangements after Covid-19 and return to office (RTO) protocols, and proposals for new fire and emergency legislation.

This comprehensive text will be of particular interest to legal practitioners advising employers on regulatory compliance with the legislation, as well as those advising in personal injuries claims, and to occupational safety and health practitioners, both in the private sector and the public sector.

Civil Procedure in the Circuit Court, fourth edition, provides the practitioner with a comprehensive and definitive analysis of civil practice and procedure in this Court. It provides an extensive commentary of the Circuit Court Rules, referring to reported and unreported decisions of the courts, legislation and practice directions.

The work includes in-depth analysis of the day-to-day activities dealt with by the Circuit Court, and the new edition comprehensively deals with the 2017 changes to the probate jurisdiction of the Circuit Court following the commencement of s.47 of the Civil Liability Act 2004. The new edition has been fully updated to account for legislative changes since the third edition in 2018, and includes all Circuit Court recent forms.