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Irish cases online?

  • 19-04-2010 2:28pm
    #1
    Butch Cassidy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,409 ✭✭✭


    Are all Irish court cases archived online somewhere? I'm looking on courts.ie and I can only find appeal cases. How does one find the transcriptions of a court case or can you?


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  • #2
    Tom Young
    Legal Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 4,338 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tom Young


    Transcripts - No. Unless you know the parties and they feel that giving them to you might be of some benefit.


  • #3
    eagle_&_bear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 328 ✭✭eagle_&_bear


    You'll find some cases on:

    http://www.courts.ie/
    http://www.supremecourt.ie/

    If you have access to paid/subscription sites, you'll find the rest on Justis.com and LexisNexis.com and other such legal search cites.

    Is there any particular case you are looking for?


  • #4
    Butch Cassidy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,409 ✭✭✭Butch Cassidy


    Oh right, I thought these things were held as public record and freely available to the public. There was a case I was wanting to read up on. I found two judgements from the court of appeal. Just curiosity I suppose, concerned party.


  • #5
    eagle_&_bear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 328 ✭✭eagle_&_bear


    not transcripts-no.

    But as long as its not an 'in-camera' trial, you can go and sit in on the proceedings and listen etc.

    Best you can do then, is wait to have it reported etc

    If there's a case name, PM and I'll pdf it for you


  • #6
    FreudianSlippers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,397 ✭✭✭✭FreudianSlippers


    Butch Cassidy wrote: »
    Oh right, I thought these things were held as public record and freely available to the public. There was a case I was wanting to read up on. I found two judgements from the court of appeal. Just curiosity I suppose, concerned party.
    Try irlii.org as well. There won't be transcripts, but you can find enough information on cases there.

    I have access to justis as well, so if you want to put the case name here I can check and see if it is on there in pdf.

    Edit: eagle_&_bear beat me to it! lol


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  • #7
    eagle_&_bear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 328 ✭✭eagle_&_bear


    OisinT wrote: »
    Edit: eagle_&_bear beat me to it! lol

    yes my padowan :D:eek:


  • #8
    maidhc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,722 ✭✭✭maidhc


    Butch Cassidy wrote: »
    Oh right, I thought these things were held as public record and freely available to the public. There was a case I was wanting to read up on. I found two judgements from the court of appeal. Just curiosity I suppose, concerned party.

    Pretty much all the High Court cases since about 1997 are on BAILII (www.bailii.org) and IRLII (www.irlii.org). Some are transcripts, more are written judgments.

    The purpose of BAILII was to make primary legal materials available FOC as the law should be freely available to the public.


  • #9
    howiye89
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭howiye89


    FreudianSlippers wrote: »
    Try irlii.org as well. There won't be transcripts, but you can find enough information on cases there.

    I have access to justis as well, so if you want to put the case name here I can check and see if it is on there in pdf.

    Edit: eagle_&_bear beat me to it! lol


    Hi there Ive to do a report on a court case I've been to for college and as a typical Irish student I left it too late to go and Ive no idea how a trial goes. Would you be able to PM me something off that justis website ? Anything will do, but preferably something interesting like a murder or drugs case. Would be really helpful !!!


  • #10
    Procrastastudy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,224 ✭✭✭Procrastastudy


    I have to admit the Americans do this very well. I wish Ireland had soemthing similar - you can literally listen to cases from start to finish. Made studying Roe v Wade a bit easier.


  • #11
    ldxo15wus6fpgm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,359 ✭✭✭ldxo15wus6fpgm


    howiye89 wrote: »
    Hi there Ive to do a report on a court case I've been to for college and as a typical Irish student I left it too late to go and Ive no idea how a trial goes. Would you be able to PM me something off that justis website ? Anything will do, but preferably something interesting like a murder or drugs case. Would be really helpful !!!

    If you're stuck for time I wouldn't try reading your first case report - the wording used is confusing at best. Try researching DPP v Nally (commonly known as the Padraig Nally case) using newspaper reports etc.


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  • #12
    howiye89
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭howiye89


    Daniel Thundering Transmitter wrote: »
    howiye89 wrote: »
    Hi there Ive to do a report on a court case I've been to for college and as a typical Irish student I left it too late to go and Ive no idea how a trial goes. Would you be able to PM me something off that justis website ? Anything will do, but preferably something interesting like a murder or drugs case. Would be really helpful !!!

    If you're stuck for time I wouldn't try reading your first case report - the wording used is confusing at best. Try researching DPP v Nally (commonly known as the Padraig Nally case) using newspaper reports etc.

    It's cool I researched the Olas vs Carr road accident case. It's a recent case which is what we were told to do. Thanks for the advice anyway though ! Cheers


  • #13
    Strawberry_Kiss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9 ✭Strawberry_Kiss


    Would anyone be able to look up a case for me, im not sure if its over yet though??


  • #14
    Tom Young
    Legal Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 4,338 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tom Young


    The posters about this are probably referring to concluded cases, where the court has handed down judgment = case concluded/finished.

    You can check 'live' cases in the High and Supreme Courts by using the High Court website www.courts.ie -> High Court Search -> enter parties, etc.

    No such functionality currently exists in District or Circuit court cases.


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