Ireland

CEPEJ Member: Liam X. COEN

Strategic Policy,
Planning and Research
Policy - Civil Justice & Equality
Department of Justice and Equality

Ireland - European Cyberjustice Network members (ECN)

Rob ROGERS
Courts Service, ICT
Helen THORNTON
Courts Service, ICT

National Correspondent

Lisa O. HANLY
Administrative Officer
Access to Justice, Regulation & Reform - Civil Policy
Department of Justice

Pilot Court

Commercial Court within the High Court in Dublin
Natasha WHYTE
Assistant Principal Officer

Evaluation Exercise

Events

European Day of Civil Justice - 25 October 2013

Links to relevant Institutions

Resources

Legal texts (Codes, laws, regulations etc.)
Irishstatutebook
Case-law of the higher court/s
Courts
Other documents (e.g. forms)
Courts

Recent developments in the judicial field

A new Criminal Courts Complex for Dublin

A new complex designed to concentrate all criminal business for the Dublin city area in one serviced location - known as the Criminal Courts of Justice - commenced operation in November 2009. The complex, extending to 25,000 sq. meters, will accommodate the District Court and Circuit Court criminal sittings and the Central Criminal Court, Special Criminal Court and Court of Criminal Appeal. It will also house the first Combined Court Office - a new single multi-jurisdictional court office model, providing support for the courts aforementioned (Recent developments in the judicial field (complete information)).

Extension of case progression regime in Circuit Court

Amendments to the procedural rules of the Circuit Court – the intermediate level first instance jurisdiction in Ireland – were approved in late 2009 to deploy a case management regime (known as “case progression”) to various categories of civil litigation in that court. A similar regime had been deployed successfully for family law litigation during 2008 (Recent developments in the judicial field (complete information)).