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:

• Clear and accessible analysis providing essential interpretation and practical guidance
• Comprehensive and current coverage of all relevant case law
• 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:

• Case C-344/19, DJ v Radiotelevizija Slovenija
• Case C-580/19, RJ v Stadt Offenbach
• Case C-107/19, XR v Dopravní podnik
• Case C-214/20, MG v Dublin City Council
• Walsh v Kerry County Council [2023] IEHC 719
• Labour Court determinations DWT207, DWT2229, DWT231, and DWT2312
• 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.

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.

The new edition of Consumer Law: Rights and Regulation provides a comprehensive and definitive analysis of this fast-moving area of law and regulation. It is substantially rewritten from the first edition to reflect the wide-ranging legal changes that have occurred since this was published.

The second edition:

• Provides a comprehensive reference that provides detailed Irish and EU coverage.
• Features all up-to-date and important case-law and legislation.
• Identifies public enforcement mechanisms and operations and presents ongoing enforcement challenges, especially in the cross-border context.
• Offers an in-depth exploration of the policy basis for consumer protection.
• Remains future-focussed, including discussion of directives which are due for transposition as well as key EU legislative consumer protection initiatives.

New content in this second edition includes:

• Detailed analysis of the Consumer Rights Act 2022
• Analysis of the impact of digitalisation and sustainability on consumer protection law and policy
• Up-to-date analysis of caselaw and developments in respect of unfair terms and unfair commercial practices
• Detailed analysis of extensive legislation in financial services consumer protection, including amendments to the Consumer Credit Act 1995 and the Consumer Insurance Contracts Act 2019 as well as the new Consumer Protection Code which comes into force in 2026
• Examination of collective redress, including an evaluation of the Representative Actions Act 2023
• Detailed analysis of caselaw under the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman Act 2017

A substantial amount of Irish consumer protection legislation has been introduced since the first edition of Consumer Law: Rights and Regulation was published in 2014. Among the most significant legislation is:

• Consumer Insurance Contracts Act 2019
• Consumer Rights Act 2022
• Consumer Credit (Amendment) Act 2022
• Representative Actions for the Protection of the Collective Interests of Consumers Act 2023
• Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Act 2013 (Section 48) (Consumer Protection) Regulations 2025

A significant body of EU legislation has been enacted, some of which is still in the process of transposition. Important EU measures include:

• Directive (EU) 2019/770 on certain contracts for the supply of digital content and digital services
• Directive (EU) 2019/771 on certain aspects concerning contacts for the sale of goods
• Directive (EU) 2019/2161 on better enforcement and modernisation of Union consumer law
• Directive (EU) 2020/1828 on representative actions
• Directive (EU) 2023/2225 on credit agreements for consumers
• Directive (EU) 2024/825 on empowering consumers for the green transition
• Directive (EU) 2024/1799 on common rules promoting the repair of goods
• Directive (EU) 2024/2853 on liability for defective products

The EU remains highly active in consumer law reform and proposals have either been published or are forthcoming in respect of:

• Digital Fairness
• Green Claims
• Payment Services
• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Enhanced Cross-border enforcement

Significant bodies of Irish and European consumer case law have emerged including in relation to distance sales; unfair terms; consumer credit; the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman; unfair commercial practices.

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.

The fifth edition of the Round Hall Criminal Law Nutshell is an invaluable study aid, providing the student with the condensed principles of criminal law and up-to-date case law and legislation. The Nutshell is framed with particular regard to students who seek a straightforward introduction to Criminal Law, as well as those revising for exams. This text provides a useful springboard for the further study of cases and commentaries in this area.

Features:

• Explains basic principles and highlights key cases and statutes.
• Summarises the essential components of the vast subject of criminal law.
• A simple introduction to criminal law for students that covers complex areas of law clearly and concisely, providing understanding of an important area of law in the run up to exams.
• Fully updated references to recent case law and legislation since the publication of the fourth edition.
• Concise application of the legal principles to supporting case law.

Round Hall Nutshells is a series of books presenting the essentials of the law in clear, straightforward language. Designed with the busy student in mind, the Nutshell is perfect for exam preparation, with brief, clear explanations of key exam topics throughout.

The Policing, Security and Community Safety Act 2024 – A Landmark Reform in Irish Law

The Policing, Security and Community Safety Act 2024 marks the most comprehensive overhaul of Ireland’s policing and security legislation in decades. Commenced in April 2025, this transformative statute is the Oireachtas’ principal response to the 2018 Report of the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland, embedding its visionary recommendations into law.

This authoritative Annotation offers in-depth commentary on the 2024 Act and all associated secondary legislation, current to the end of June 2025. Key reforms include:

• Five guiding policing principles, including human rights protection and community engagement, now central to statutory policing functions.
• Governance reform within An Garda Síochána, introducing Bord an Gharda Síochána, a new non-executive oversight body.
• Creation of An Oifig Náisiúnta um Shábháilteacht Pobail, tasked with implementing the National Strategy for Improving Community Safety through local partnerships.
• Establishment of An tÚdarás Póilíneachta Agus Sábháilteachta Pobail, merging the roles of the Policing Authority and Garda Inspectorate.
• Launch of Fiosrú – The Office of the Police Ombudsman, replacing GSOC and modernising complaints procedures.
• Introduction of An Scrúdaitheoir Neamhspleách um Reachtaíocht Slándála, a new independent office overseeing security legislation.

This book is an essential resource for legal professionals, policymakers, and academics seeking to understand the future framework of policing in Ireland.

In a constantly changing legal landscape, staying informed is essential for those involved in local governance. The latest edition of "The Law of Local Government" provides a comprehensive guide to the significant developments in local government law since the last edition in 2020.

This updated volume covers the impacts of the Planning and Development Act 2024, the Affordable Housing Act 2021, the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2024, and the Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Act 2022, along with essential secondary legislation.

The third edition is a valuable resource, offering an analysis of the case law and legislative changes that shape local government administration and legal framework. Whether you are a practitioner, policymaker, or scholar, this edition provides the knowledge to navigate local government law effectively.

Understand the implications of local government law for communities, policy, and practice with this essential guide.

Features:

• Detailed academic treatise of local government law
• Includes all relevant case-law on local government administration
• Analysis on trends of local government case law

New to this Edition:

• Includes new primary legislation introduced since the second edition in 2020, namely the Planning and Development Act 2024, Affordable Housing Act 2021, Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2024, and Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Act 2022
• First academic text to refer to Planning and Development Act 2024 which has repealed the Planning and Development Act 2000
• Covers all relevant case-law developments since 2020
• Refers to Law Reform Commission report on compulsory acquisition
• Chapters have been updated to reflect both legislative and case-law developments

Round Hall Nutshells is a series of books presenting the essentials of the law in clear, straightforward language. Designed with the busy student in mind, the Nutshell is perfect for exam preparation, with brief, clear explanations of key exam topics throughout.

This new edition of Company Law Nutshell provides the student and practitioner with an up-to-date and accessible overview of Irish company law. This is an invaluable text for not only students preparing for university and professional exams in law and accountancy, but also busy practitioners, company directors and officers and their advisers.

Key Features

• An easy-to-understand approach that provides you with key analysis and interpretation;
• Up-to-date and including all important case law and legislation, including the Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Act 2024 and the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting and Preventive Restructuring Directives;
• Expert overview of the entire Companies Acts making this complicated field easier to navigate and understand.

New to This Edition

• Covers all major aspects of Irish company law including general concepts, types of company, formation, management, regulation, borrowing and security, shareholder rights and remedies, directors’ duties, accounts and audit, examinership, windings up, mergers and divisions;
• Deals with the legislative changes made by the Companies Act 2014 and all subsequent legislation including the Companies (Statutory Audits) Act 2018, the Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Act 2021, the Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Act 2024, and the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting and Preventive Restructuring Directives;
• All chapters have been revised and rewritten to incorporate recent developments, and many have been expanded to cover areas not previously addressed in previous editions.

Now in its eighth edition, Equity and the Law of Trusts in Ireland provides a comprehensive treatment and analysis of this area of the law. This updated and expanded new edition examines recent developments in relation to both trusts and equitable remedies. Focusing on reviewing and analysing the law in this jurisdiction, extensive reference is also made to the relevant principles as they have developed in England and Wales and, where appropriate, in other common law countries.

Features

• Provides comprehensive examination and analysis of the law of trusts, including areas such as resulting, constructive and charitable trusts.
• Examines principles relating to the grant of equitable remedies such as injunctions, specific performance, rectification and rescission.
• Reviews relevant case law developments in this jurisdiction and also, where appropriate, in other common law jurisdictions, particularly England and Wales.
• Considers the significance of relevant legislation in the field.
• Provides insights in relation to likely future developments in the law in relation to trusts and equitable remedies.

New to this Edition

• New sections on injunctions against persons unknown and newcomer injunctions and on proceedings against directors of corporate trustees.
• Considers the circumstances where specific performance or tracing principles have been adapted for novel categories of property such as crypto-assets.
• New material examining the potential fiduciary categories of expert advisors and the availability of rescission where independent advisors accept secret commissions.
• Examines legislative developments in this area of the law since the publication of the previous edition, such as the provisions of the Charities (Amendment) Act 2024.
• Analyses significant recent judgments delivered by the Supreme Court in relation to injunctions.
• Considers significant recent decisions of the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court in other areas in this jurisdiction.
• Considers important recent decisions of the UK Supreme Court.

This new edition of Fundamentals of the Irish Legal System continues to examine key features of the Irish legal system in a clear and accessible manner. Readers are invited to think deeply and critically about the interlinkages of law, policy, and politics in the Irish legal system. How law and society interact to shape and change each other is a key underlying theme of this text.

Key features

• Explains and critically assesses how Irish law is made and applied.
• Analyses what the law is, the concept of the rule of law, sources of law, the civil and criminal jurisdiction of courts, alternative dispute resolution, the place of international and European Union law in the Irish legal system, the role of judges and legal practitioners, the Irish administrative state and judicial review, as well as access to justice in the Irish legal system.
• Explains the intricacies of the Irish legal system while providing contextual analysis and discussion of key areas and controversies.
• Embeds skills-based approaches to legal study, identifying approaches to find, read, analyse and critique legislation, case law, texts and journal articles, so that students can put their knowledge into practice.

Key learning features

• Logical and clear engagement with the fundamentals of the Irish legal system.
• Practical and up-to-date analysis on developments within the Irish legal system.
• Dedicated legal insight sections within chapters to assist students in understanding law within its societal context.

Procurement Law, Second Edition, comes to market six years after the successful publication of the first instalment. Fully reviewed with extensive updates to case law and legislative progress in the years since the first edition, the text provides an overview of the principles of public procurement, thresholds and exclusions for public contracts, notification and procurement procedures, framework agreements and dynamic purchasing, and remedies and redress. It is an extensive evaluation of the substantive and procedural provisions applying to public procurement in this jurisdiction.

It remains a key text for legal practitioners and those working in the area of public procurement in local authorities, Government departments, utilities, and potential contractors and bidders in the private sector.

Key features:

• Extensive evaluation of public procurement law in this jurisdiction
• Consolidates relevant Irish procedures on notification of tenders and the procurement process
• Analyses the relevant procedures for reviewing the procurement process and seeking redress
• Analyses public procurement from a legal and practical perspective
• Deals with EU Directives and transposing national legislation and case law

The third edition of Walsh on Criminal Procedure offers a comprehensive, expert, and accessible analysis of all aspects of Irish criminal procedure.

As well as engaging with an immense and complex body of domestic legislation, regulations, rules, case law and practice directions, it incorporates full analysis of extensive EU legislation and case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union and of the European Court of Human Rights. There is an emphasis throughout on comprehensive detail, clarity of analysis, coherence, and accessibility. It is targeted primarily at the diverse and particular needs of judges, prosecutors, defence, victims, gardaí, other law enforcement personnel, students, policymakers, and non-governmental organisations in the areas of human rights, civil liberties, crime victims' support and criminal justice.

New to This Edition

• Extensive revision and restructuring of all chapters to incorporate all relevant developments, improve clarity and depth of analysis, strengthen methodical coherence, and enhance accessibility and use.
• The addition of 14 wholly new chapters on: the Garda and Crime Victims; Retention and Disclosure of Communications Data; Overt Garda Surveillance through Cameras and Technology; Mutual Recognition and Enforcement of Bail Conditions; Disclosure and Privilege; Preliminary Trial Hearings; Evidence through Video Link and Remote Hearings; Restrictions on Public Hearings and Press Reporting; Parole; Mutual Recognition and Enforcement of Probation Decisions and Sentences; Criminal Records; Garda Vetting; and Coercive Powers and Enforcement Procedures Relating to Infectious Diseases and Covid-19.
• Substantive new materials have been added in 56 other chapters throughout the book to include areas not addressed in previous editions and to accommodate significant new developments in Garda powers and criminal procedure.
• Coverage of 36 substantive statutes dealing with policing and/or criminal justice matters
• Important statutory measures in the pipeline are also covered.
• Coverage of an immense number of decisions of the Superior Courts,
• Coverage of a number of major decisions of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights

About the Author

Professor Dermot P.J. Walsh LLB, PhD, MRIA, Barrister at Law lectured in the Universities of Cork, Ulster, Limerick, and Kent and has published widely in the areas of criminal procedure, policing, EU criminal law and procedure and human rights, including major texts on Criminal Procedure, the Irish Police, Juvenile Justice and Bloody Sunday. He was elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2011.

The new edition of the Family Law Nutshell presents a detailed yet concise examination of the core aspects of Irish family law, with a view to assisting students beginning their study of the subject and those revising for exams. The clear and thorough manner in which the information is presented will make this an invaluable revision tool for all students of the discipline. The book provides a comprehensive insight into reported and unreported decisions of the courts, legislation, and other relevant developments in the context of an ever-evolving society.

Since the first edition, there have been a number of both legislative and constitutional changes, in particular in relation to: guardianship, custody and access, the rights of the child, same-sex couples, civil partnership and cohabitation, adoption, domestic violence, and marital breakdown. All chapters have been revised and rewritten to incorporate such developments, and the content has been updated generally on the law relating to both the marital and non-marital families, and children.

Round Hall Nutshells is a series of books presenting the essentials of the law in clear, straightforward language. Designed with the busy student in mind, the Nutshell is perfect for exam preparation, with brief, clear explanations of key exam topics throughout.

About the Author

Marianne Joyce is a recent graduate of the LLM in Children's Rights and Family Law at University College Cork. She has previously published on children and young people's participation in research, having worked as a youth researcher for a number of years. In 2023, she co-authored Family Law, 2nd edition (Round Hall) with Professor Louise Crowley. She is currently working as a Policy Officer in the Ombudsman for Children's Office.

The Personal Insolvency Act 2012 introduced a new and much-needed change to Irish insolvency law. The Law of Personal Insolvency provides, for the first time, a definitive consideration of both the Personal Insolvency Acts 2012 to 2021 and the significant body of case law in this area. It offers an in-depth understanding of this developing field of law.

This book examines how this complex and detailed legislation has been interpreted by the courts over the past decade. It is the first comprehensive examination of this new frontier in Irish Law, and provides practical, procedural knowledge alongside detailed commentary and consideration of the growing body of jurisprudence.

Invaluable for legal practitioners, personal insolvency practitioners, and anyone dealing with personal debt matters, this new text covers the entirety of the Personal Insolvency Acts and their integration into the Irish legal landscape.

Product Features

• A comprehensive analysis of the Debt Settlement Arrangements, Debt Relief Notices and the Personal Insolvency Arrangement.
• A vital guide for creditors, debtors, practitioners, and lawyers when engaging with the Acts.
• Detailed outlines of practice and procedure in the Circuit and High Court.
• Distils the rapidly developing case law into the principles which underscore the operation of the Acts.
• An invaluable asset to practitioners in meeting the variety of court applications under the Acts.

This is the second edition of the textbook by Dr Brian Farrell, former Dublin City and District Coroner.

The first edition since its publication in 2000 has constituted the leading text and reference book on Coroners practice and procedure in Ireland. Coroners law, practice and procedure has evolved considerably during the past 25 years inspired by a number of executive reviews and decisions of the superior courts relating to inquests. Additional impetus emanating from the European Convention on Human Rights Act 2003, decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, the Coroners Acts 1962 to 2024 and associated legislation has been pivotal.

About the Author

Dr Brian Farrell is a former Dublin City and District Coroner.