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GAZETTE
SEPTEMBER 1981
Law Reporting and
Statute Law
edition to cover the volumes from 1922 to 1973.
The Association ipust have been gratified by the large
attendance of non-members of the Association and it is to
be hoped that this will encourage the Association in
further ventures not wholly directed at its own
membership. •
The first venture of the Irish Association of Law Teachers
outside its own ranks was a very successful Summer
meeting on Law Reporting and the Publication of Statute
Law held at University College, Dublin.
The paper on Law Reporting prepared by Professor
Kevin Boyle of University College, Galway included a
brief history of Law Reporting in Ireland and went on to
review the present unsatisfactory position
—
unsatisfactory not because of any lack of effort on the
part of the official body charged with Law Reporting,
whose Editor has made great strides in what is a most
difficult task, namely to catch up arrears in a periodical
publication, but for other reasons. The increase in the
number (and, dare it be said, of some Judges, the length)
of written judgments in the High and Supreme Court is
one reason; the disappearance of the old Irish Jurist
Reports and the decline in the Irish Law Times Reports is
another, while the small number of subscribers (the
solicitors' profession in Ireland is notably at fault here)
to the Irish Reports is yet a further reason.
During the discussion on the paper, the need to
improve Circuit Court reporting following the
introduction of the new jurisdiction under the Courts Act,
1981, was noted and the Association was asked to set up
a Sub-Committee to suggest ways of improving law
reporting. Mr. Bart Daly of Irish Academic Press drew
the attention of the meeting to his company's projected
Irish Law Monthly Reports which were scheduled to
commence publication in October 1981.
Professor Desmond Greer of Queens University
presented a paper on Statute Law and began by
reminding his audience of the difficulty, for historical
reasons, of ascertaining precisely what Statutes still apply
in Ireland; he then commented on the delay in publishing
the bound annual volumes of the Acts of the Oireachtas
due, it was understood, largely to delays in translating the
English version into Irish. The production of an annual
volume of English language only texts from 1980
onwards was to be welcomed.
Unfortunately, the Republic has never had an
equivalent of the Northern Ireland "Statutes Revised" —
the complete text of all Statutes affecting Northern
Ireland, from whatever legislature. This was first
published in 1956 and a new edition is in course of
preparation but, for reasons of cost, will exclude United
Kingdom Acts. It appeared that tables of Statutes were
printed triennially in Northern Ireland (and are only 15
months in arrears!).
The particular difficulties attaching to the problem of
Statutory Instruments was also noted in Professor
Greer's paper.
During the discussion, considerable attention was paid
to the problem of the piece-meal coming into force of
certain parts of recent legislation and some suggested
guidelines were mentioned. The Law Society
representative indicated that the Society proposed to
reprint the Acts of the Oireachtas in a monolingual
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