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Author:   Mark Coen (University College Dublin, Ireland) ,  Noel McGrath (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Hart Publishing
ISBN:  

9781509978908

ISBN 10:   1509978909
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   05 February 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Mark Coen and Noel McGrath (University College Dublin, Ireland) Part One: The Court of Appeal in Context 2. The Political and Constitutional Background to the Establishment of the Court of Appeal, Jamie Mcloughlin (University College Dublin, Ireland) 3. The Early Days of a New Court, Mark Coen (University College Dublin, Ireland) Part Two: The Court of Appeal: Institutional Features and Challenges 4. The Judges of the Court of Appeal, Laura Cahillan (University of Limerick, Ireland) 5. The Culture and Practice of Dissent in the Court of Appeal, Brian Barry (Technological University of Dublin, Ireland) 6. Fools Rush In? Litigants in Person in the Irish Court of Appeal - Towards a Best Practice Guide, Patricia Brazil (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Part Three: The Contribution of the Court of Appeal to Substantive Law 7. Guiding Judicial Discretion in Private Family Law: The Role of the Court of Appeal, Deirdre McGowan (Technological University of Dublin, Ireland) 8. The Role of the Court of Appeal in Developing Sentencing Guidelines, Tom O’Malley (University of Galway, Ireland) 9. A Decade of Distinctive Doctrinal Developments in Tort Law in Ireland: Analysing the Case Law of the Court of Appeal in Comparative Perspective, Des Ryan (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) 10. Summary Thresholds, Statutory Ambiguity and Procedural Impediments: The Role of the Court of Appeal in Post-Crisis Debt Recovery, Karen Lynch Shally (Maynooth University, Ireland) 11. “Tending the Gardens of Equity”: Vulnerable Sureties and the Court of Appeal, Oonagh Breen (University College Dublin, Ireland) 12. Contractual Good Faith in the Court of Appeal, Clíona Kelly (University College Dublin, Ireland) 13. The Court of Appeal as a Court of Union Law, Stephen Coutts, (University College Dublin, Ireland) Part Four: The Court of Appeal in Comparative Perspective 14. The Court of Appeal of Northern Ireland, Brice Dickson and Conor McCormick (Queen’s University Belfast, UK) 15. Courts of Appeal in Ireland and the Netherlands: Comparing a Decade of Reform Experiences, Elaine Mak (Utrecht University, Netherlands) 16. “Scotland, Uniquely Among the Major Jurisdictions of the British Isles, as no Proper Hierarchy of Courts”: Evaluating the Impact of the Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014, Andrew Tickell, (Glasgow Caledonian University, UK) Part Five: The Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court 17. Dancing the Two-Step: Appellate Practices in Ireland following the Establishment of the Court of Appeal, Noel McGrath, University College Dublin, Ireland) 18. The Supreme Court after the establishment of the Court of Appeal, Conor Casey (University of Liverpool, UK)

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Mark Coen and Noel McGrath are Lecturers in Law at University College Dublin, Ireland.

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