Principles of Irish Contract Law

Principles of Irish Contract Law is the ideal source for undergraduate law students and all those interested in the study of contract law. Although this book is student-focused, outlining and explaining the main tenets of Irish Contract law, many legal practitioners will undoubtedly find this text as a great source to re-acquaint themselves with the subject. Principles of Irish Contract Law emphasises the theory behind contract law, demystifying difficult concepts and providing a policy-driven introduction to this challenging subject. The key cases are fully discussed in a manner which encourages students to approach the subject from a critical standpoint. Cases from other jurisdictions, especially the United States, are also discussed. The book is highly accessible and combines an informal analytical style with useful learning features such as diagrams and tables. The final two chapters focus on study and exam skills and include worked problem answers

Girl, Interrupted: Citizenship and the Irish Hijab Debate

This article discusses the case of Shekinah Egan, an Irish Muslim girl who asked to be allowed to wear the hijab to school. It traces the media and government response to her demand, and frames that demand as a citizenship claim. It focuses in particular on a peculiarity of the Irish response; that the government was disinclined to legislate for the headscarf in the classroom. It argues that – perhaps counter-intuitively – the refusal to make law around the hijab operated to silence the citizenship claims at the heart of the Egan case. To this extent, it was a very particular instance of a broader and ongoing pattern of exclusion of the children of migrants from the Irish public sphere

Justice, Convention and Anecdote: Evans and the Right to Become a Mother

The Evans decisions are important as the first major European contributions to the growing global legal debate on frozen pre-embryo disputes. They are more important still for what they say about the structure of the Western law of reproduction. In this article, I want to explore this small body of case law, not to present a comprehensive analysis of any country's law on this issue, but to use judicial holdings to divine what I think is the basic structure of Western legal thought on these issues. First, I want to show that the “conflict of rights” model is the basic foundation for the decided pre-embryo cases. There are two variations on that model. In the UK, the Evans decisions suggest an “equality” theory: male and female rights as regards the dispute are absolutely equivalent and, therefore, decisions regarding the pre-embryo must be made on an equal basis — a mutual consent requirement must be adhered to. On the other hand, in America and Israel, the courts have adopted a clear hierarchy of rights as between male and female. Next, I want to suggest that neither of these theories of pre-embryo disputes really “fit” the pre-embryo problem, or indeed really explain decision-making around it. Finally, I will set out my theory of how pre-embryo disputes are best understood. I want to argue that pre-embryo cases show a pattern in the law of reproduction: an attempt to mimic the “natural” order of the reproductive process

Survivors of symphysiotomy deserve improved redress

Opinion: Minister for Justice should amend the scheme to give the women what they are du

Attempts to silence Survivors of Symphysiotomy Must be Fought

Reliance on ex gratia redress schemes should be read against a backdrop of Government reluctance to allow these victims – and others like them – to speak on their own terms about the recent past, writes Máiréad Enrigh