Book review: 'consolidated circuit court rules: practice and procedure' by Margaret Cordial (Roundhall Sweet and Maxwell)
Author | Esmond Smyth |
Position | President of the Circuit Court |
Pages | 248-254 |
BOOK REVIEW:
“CONSOLIDATED CIRCUIT COURT RULES:
PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE”
BY MARGARET CORDIAL
(ROUNDHALL SWEET AND MAXWELL)
THE HON. MR. JUSTICE ESMOND SMYTH*
The consolidated rules of the Circuit Court were
launched by the Minister for Justice in November 2001 and
Margaret Cordial’s excellent commentary followed shortly
afterwards. It is an understatement to say that both were long
over due. The previous rules were published nearly fifty
years earlier and continued in force during a period when
more than sixty new statutory instruments were made which
affected the practice and procedure of the Circuit Court.
Indeed, unless you were a diligent practitioner who regularly
perused Iris Oifigiúil, you might have been completely
unaware of the existence of new rules, still less be able to
locate them easily. How much more difficult it must have
been for a member of the public searching for a route map to
the Circuit Court to enable them pursue a legal right of their
choice – particularly if they did not have the benefit of a
barrister or solicitor to assist them. Clearly something needed
to be done to rectify this undesirable situation, so the Circuit
Court Rules Committee embarked some years ago on the task
of consolidating the rules. Their overdue arrival has
significantly improved access to the Rules and Procedures of
the Circuit Court.
To make matters even better, Margaret Cordial has
written a learned and authoritative commentary on the
consolidated rules, wherein she carefully cites and analyses
the latest decisions and outlines the various proofs which are
required to ground applications to the Circuit Court. What
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* President of the Circuit Court.
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