About Ireland - Dispute Resolution
Trying to get to grips with the law underlying your dispute? Looking at trying to settle? Puzzled by costs and funding reforms? Out of your depth on jurisdiction issues? Lexis+ Ireland - Dispute Resolution provides all the practical guidance, insights
and knowledge tools to get the job done.
Our coverage encompasses Irish court procedures, ADR, cross-border matters, appeals, judicial review, enforcement, and civil proceeding costs, along with practice notes on various claims and Companies
Acts applications.
Civil Procedure—Pre-Trial
Guidance on the key procedural issues and practical considerations involved in initiating and managing a claim in the Irish courts prior to a substantive hearing.
Types of action
Guidance on areas like personal injury, contractual breach, corporate disputes, negligence and defamation to ensure you’re familiar with the substantive law and procedural provisions.
Civil appeals and judicial review
We outline the key principles and procedural requirements of civil appeals and judicial review proceedings in the Irish courts.
Alternative dispute resolution and settlement
In addition to clear overviews of alternative dispute resolution processes such as mediation and arbitration, we provide guidance on the process of settlement and how to document it.
Topics We Cover
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Latest Ireland - Dispute Resolution News
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Latest Ireland - Dispute Resolution Practice Notes
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Ireland—Civil litigation horizon scanner 2024 [Archived]ARCHIVED: This archived Practice Note provides a summary of the key legal developments that...
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Ireland—The Motor Insurers’ Bureau of IrelandThis Practice Note provides an overview of the role of the Motor Insurers Bureau of Ireland (MIBI) in...
Ireland—Stages of mediationIntroductionMediation is a process of alternative dispute resolution that is well established in Ireland as an alternative...
Latest Ireland - Dispute Resolution Precedents
Ireland—Letter to Gardaí—requesting Garda abstract reportSuperintendantRoad Traffic Accident: [place of accident]On: [date of accident]Our Client:...
Ireland—Arbitration clauseThis is a precedent arbitration clause for future disputes, which can be used for international and domestic arbitrations...
Ireland—Letter to client—enclosing copy of Garda abstract reportI have now received from the Gardaí a copy of the abstract report relating to the...
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Ireland—Appeals from the Circuit Court
Ireland—Appeals from the Circuit CourtThis Practice Note considers ordinary appeals from the Circuit Court to the High Court by outlining the...
Ireland—Civil litigation horizon scanner 2024 [Archived]
Ireland—Civil litigation horizon scanner 2024 [Archived]ARCHIVED: This archived Practice Note provides a summary of the key legal developments that...
Ireland—Judicial review—grounds of challenge
Ireland—Judicial review—grounds of challengeThis Practice Note considers the different types of grounds for judicial review, focusing primarily on the...
Ireland—The Motor Insurers’ Bureau of Ireland
Ireland—The Motor Insurers’ Bureau of IrelandThis Practice Note provides an overview of the role of the Motor Insurers Bureau of Ireland (MIBI) in...
Ireland—Letter to Gardaí—requesting Garda abstract report
Ireland—Letter to Gardaí—requesting Garda abstract reportSuperintendantRoad Traffic Accident: [place of accident]On: [date of accident]Our Client:...
Ireland—Stages of mediation
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Panoramic Next—ESG Engagement & Litigation
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Ireland—Protecting and enforcing intellectual property rights
Ireland—Protecting and enforcing intellectual property rightsIntroductionIrish law protects a range of intellectual property (IP) rights that will be...
Ireland—Arbitration clause
Ireland—Arbitration clauseThis is a precedent arbitration clause for future disputes, which can be used for international and domestic arbitrations...
Ireland—Fatal injuries actions
Ireland—Fatal injuries actionsThis Practice Note considers what is a fatal injury action, in what circumstances such an action may arise, who is...
Ireland—Arbitration—an introduction
Ireland—Arbitration—an introductionIreland as a seat of arbitrationIn recent years, the Republic of Ireland (Ireland) has made a concerted effort to...
Tracker—Hague Judgments Convention
Tracker—Hague Judgments ConventionThis Tracker is for use when determining whether a country is a signatory to the Hague Convention on Recognition and...
The EU Representative Actions Directive
The EU Representative Actions DirectiveThis Practice Note sets out a summary of Directive (EU) 2020/1828 (EU Representative Actions Directive or EU...
Mediation Directive
Mediation DirectiveThis Practice Note covers Directive 2008/52/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2008 on certain aspects of...
Ireland—Third-party litigation funding
Ireland—Third-party litigation fundingThis Practice Note considers the law on maintenance and champerty and how it affects third party litigation...
Ireland—Starting a professional negligence claim—a practical guide
Ireland—Starting a professional negligence claim—a practical guideThis Practice Note on professional negligence claims provides practical guidance and...
Ireland—Starting a breach of contract claim
Ireland—Starting a breach of contract claimThis Practice Note explores contract breach claims and provides practical guidance and tips to consider...
Associated legal terms
Disability related discrimination
The term used to describe a type of discrimination against disabled employees, namely if a person discriminates against a disabled person by treating him less favourably because of something arising as a consequence of the disabled person's disability.
Dominance
Where an undertaking enjoys a position of economic power that enables it to behave, to a large extent, independently of effective competition pressures.
Farm to Fork strategy
The Farm to Fork strategy is part of the Green Deal and aims to address the challenges of producing and consuming food in a sustainable way. The Farm to Fork strategy addresses four key areas of supply chain management in the food industry: production, practices, consumption, and waste. Within this, it presents ideas on how to achieve better management of the four key topics, such as how future diets will need to change, and how mandatory labelling could become the norm where front-of-pack nutritional information as well as origin indication are required.
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