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intended for students of law, business, accountancy,
banking etc., and wQl be found useful by these, and
others, who wish to acquire a broad picture of modern
Irish Law. It should be emphasised however, especially to
those who may not intend to pursue legal studies beyond
a superficial level, that it is not possible to state even the
so-called "principles" of law with quite the degree of
accuracy, simplicity and clarity suggested by this work.
The laudable aim of explaining the more important
principles in easy terms has been achieved here at the
expense of a considerable distortion of the reality of "Irish
Law". This distortion arises not only from the misleading
positive statement of the principles but also from the
author's equally laudable aim to concentrate almost
exclusively on cases decided in Ireland.
It is obviously right that a book on Irish Law should
not pay too much consideration to cases decided outside
this country at the expense of Irish cases. But in some
areas it is not possible to give an
adequate
statement of
"Irish" law by excluding English cases entirely. For
example, in the section on Contract, important for the
main intended readers studying law in the business
context, the total exclusion of reference to English cases is
very questionable. Irish and English Courts and
practitioners do not deprive themselves of the benefits to
be gained from reference to Contract cases decided
elsewhere in the common law world. The House of Lords,
e.g., in
Scuttons Ltd. v. Midland Silicones Ltd.,
quite
happily relied on decisions in the U.S. Supreme Court and
the High Court of Australia. If readers consult the cases
cited in the section on Contract, they will discover that, in
many cases, the Irish judges refer simply to an English
case in which the relevant principle is fully discussed.
Mr. Doolan could not reasonably have been expected
In this book to provide the full synthesis of Irish and
English cases which would be required for a
comprehensive statement of the Anglo-Irish law of
contract, but, while still emphasising Irish cases, he might
in this, and other sections, have alerted his readers to the
continuing importance of English cases in contemporary
Irish law.
J. F. O'Connor
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