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GAZETTE
] Northern Ireland
I The Northern Ireland
Judgments
Bulletin,
containing unreported
Northern Ireland judgments and the
Northern Ireland Law Reports
are
also available.
The Bulletin of N.I.
Law
provides an index to recent
developments in the areas of statute
and case law.
Legislation - Ireland
The library receives many queries on
| legislation e.g. "Has the Solicitors
| (Amendment) Bill, 1991 passed its
Second Stage?" "When did the
Statute of Limitations (Amendment)
Act, 1991 become law?" Members
need to know what stage a Bill is at,
when an Act came into force, if any
statutory instruments have been
j made under a specific section of an
Act, and these are questions which
can usually be answered over the
í telephone. A subscription is taken
out annually to all Bills, Dail
Í Debates, and the library receives
j
copies of all Statutory Instruments
| under the S.I. Act, 1947. A chart of
the progress of Bills through the
j
Houses of the Oireachtas is
maintained and is updated monthly.
The loose-leaf "
I r i sh Current
Law
Statutes Annotated"
is also
subscribed to. The official indexing
of Irish legislation is unfortunately
not up to date, the most recent
Index to the Statutes only goes up to
1985, so queries which involve
checking if Acts have been amended
can only be pursued accurately up to
1985. Statutory Instruments are
indexed up to 1986, both in the
official series produced by the
' Stationery Office, and in
Butterworths'
Index to Irish
Statutory
Instruments
compiled by
R. Humphreys. The library staff
maintain an index to post 1986
Statutory Instruments, numerically
by S.I. number, and alphabetically
by enabling Act.
Older Irish Acts
The library has a set of
The
Statutes
at large passed in the
Parliaments
held in Ireland 1310-1800
and
Oulton's Index to the Statutes in
Force 1310-1835.
If a member needs
the Statute of Frauds, 1695, or the
Dublin Theatres Act, 1786, these can
readily be photocopied. Another
source of early Irish Legislation,
"The Green Book",
contains an
account of the principal reported
decisions on the Irish Statutes, Rules
and Orders of Court from 1224-1860.
The library does not hold pre 1922
Local and Personal Acts, but can
order such documents through its
inter-library arrangements.
Legislation - UK
The current series of
UK Law
Reports Statutes
is purchased. The
library can supply any public English
Statute back to 1800. Pre 1800
English Statutes can be ordered and
are usually made available within 24
hours. UK Statutory Instruments are
not subscribed to, but again should
a member require one an order can
be left with the library staff and the
item is usually ready for collection
or faxing by the following day.
General Materials
(1) Textbooks and
Periodicals
The library purchases multiple
JUNE 1992
copies of all Irish legal textbooks,
at least one copy of the principal
UK textbooks and loose-leaf
encyclopedias and subscribes to
approximately 120 law reports
and journals. Textbooks can be
borrowed for periods of three
weeks at a time. Periodicals are
not lent, but there is a self service
photocopying machine in the
library. Irish periodicals are
indexed in O'Higgins
"Bibliography
of
Periodical
Literature Relating to Irish
Law"
which covers the period
1966-1983. If a member wishes to
do subject research in English
periodicals he/she can scan
through the
Legal Journals
Index,
which is published monthly and
indexes all legal journals
published in the United Kingdom.
(2) Forms and
Precedents
The library has a wide range of
forms and precedents available
for consultation. We can supply
objects clauses for companies,
shareholders agreements,
computer contracts, etc.
Recently, a member contacted the
library with what he considered a far-
fetched request - "had we got a
precedent joint venture agreement for
growing crops?" In the event the 5th
edition of Butterworths Encyclopaedia
of Forms and Precedents provided a
form which with a little re-drafting
would fit the bill! As well as the 4th
and 5th editions of Butterworths, the
library staff can search for precedent
forms in a number of other source
books which include:
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