OSCOLA Ireland Quick Reference Guide

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Do  not  use  full  stops  in  abbreviations.  Separate  citations  with   Do  not  use  superscript  for  dates  and  editions  (2nd,  not  2nd).  
a  semi-­‐colon.  Close  footnotes  with  a  full  stop.  
Books
Constitution Give  the  author’s  name  in  the  same  form  as  in  the  publication,  
Article  40.3.3°.   except  in  bibliographies,  where  you  should  give  only  the  
surname  followed  by  the  initials(s).    Give  relevant  
Cases information  about  editions,  translators  and  such  before  the  
Give  the  party  names,  followed  by  the  neutral  citation,   publisher.    Put  a  comma  after  this  information,  but  not  
followed  by  the  Irish  Reports  citation.  If  there  is  no  neutral   between  publisher  and  year.  When  pinpointing,  give  page  
citation,  give  the  Irish  Reports  citation  followed  by  the  court   numbers  at  the  end  of  the  citation,  after  the  brackets.  
in  brackets.  If  the  case  is  not  reported  in  the  Irish  Reports,  cite   Bryan  McMahon  and  William  Binchy,  The  Law  of  Torts  (3rd  
the  Irish  Law  Reports  Monthly  if  possible,  or  other  reports   edn,  Butterworths  2000).  
otherwise:   James  Casey,  Constitutional  Law  in  Ireland  (3rd  edn,  Round  
Riordan  v  Ireland  [2009]  IESC  44,  [2009]  3  IR  745.   Hall  Sweet  and  Maxwell  2000)  126.  
Doran  v  Delaney    [1998]  2  IR  61  (SC).  
Contributions to edited books
Friends  of  the  Curragh  Environment  Ltd  v  An  Bord  Pleanála  
(No  2)  [2006]  IEHC  390,  [2007]  1  ILRM  386.   Liz  Heffernan,  ‘Evidentiary  Rights  under  Article  38.1:  The  
When  pinpointing,  give  paragraph  numbers  in  square   Right  to  Fair  Trial  and  Informer  Privilege’  in  Oran  Doyle  
brackets  with  the  name  of  the  judge  at  the  end  of  the  citation.   and  Eoin  Carolan  (eds),  The  Irish  Constitution:  Governance  
If  the  judgment  has  no  paragraph  numbers,  but  does  have   and  Values  (Thomson  Round  Hall  2008).  
page  numbers,  give  the  page  number  after  the  court.  If  there   Journal articles
are  no  paragraph  numbers  or  page  numbers,  do  not  include  a  
pinpoint  reference.   For  continuously  paginated  volumes:  
TD  v  Minister  for  Education  [2001]  4  IR  259  (SC)  270.   Terence  Coghlan,  ‘The  Copyright  and  Related  Rights  Act  
2000’  (2001)  6  Bar  Review  294.  
AP  v  DPP  [2011]  IESC  2  [27]  (Fennelly  J).  
Siobhán  Mullally,  ‘Searching  for  Foundations  for  Irish  
Where  the  case  is  unreported  and  has  no  neutral  citation,  it  
Constitutional  Law’  (1998)  33  IJ  (ns)  333.  
should  be  cited:  
VTH  Delany,  ‘Injuries  to  Schoolchildren:  The  Principles  of  
First  Plaintiff  v  First  Defendant  (HC,  22  February  1999).  
Liability’  (1962-­‐63)  IJ  15.  
Statutes and statutory instruments If  page  numbering  re-­‐starts  with  each  issue:  
Interpretation  Act  2005.   Albert  Keating,  ‘Conditional  Wills  and  Gifts’  (2014)  2(3)  
European  Convention  on  Human  Rights  Act  2003,  s  3(5)(a).   Irish  Probate  Law  Journal  6.    
European  Communities  (Electronic  Communications   Pinpoint  cites:  
Networks  and  Services)  (Data  Protection  and  Privacy)   Emma  Storan,  ‘Section  117  of  the  Succession  Act  1965:  
Regulations  2003,  SI  2003/535.   Another  Means  for  the  Courts  to  Rewrite  a  Will?’  (2006)  
Electricity  Regulation  Act  1999  (Electricity)  Levy  Order   11(4)  Conveyancing  and  Property  Law  Journal  82,  85.  
2005,  SI  2005/819.   Online journals
EU legislation and cases Graham  Greenleaf,  ‘The  Global  Development  of  Free  Access  
Consolidated  Version  of  the  Treaty  on  European  Union   to  Legal  Information’  (2010)  1(1)  EJLT  
[2008]  OJ  C115/13.   <http://ejlt.org//article/view/17>    accessed  1  February  
Council  Regulation  (EC)  139/2004  on  the  control  of   2011.  
concentrations  between  undertakings  (EC  Merger   Encyclopedias
Regulation)  [2004]  OJ  L24/1,  art  5.  
Halsbury’s  Laws  (5th  edn,  2010)  vol  57,  para  53.  
Pre-1989 cases
Case  272/86  Commission  v  Greece  [1988]  ECR  4875.  
Official publications
Post-1989 cases Constitution  Review  Group,  Report  of  the  Consitution  
Review  Group  (Pn  2632,  Stationery  Office  1996)  45.  
Case  C-­‐156/87  Gestetner  v  Council  [1990]  ECR  I-­‐781.  
European Court of Human Rights Law Reform Commission Reports
Simpson  v  UK  (1989)  53  DR  188.   Reports
Tyrer  v  UK  (1978)  2  EHRR  1.   Law  Reform  Commission,  Legal  Aspects  of  Family  
A,  B  and  C  v  Ireland  App  No  25579/05  (ECHR,  16  December   Relationships  (LRC  101—2010).  
2010).   Consultation Papers and pinpointing
Law  Reform  Commission,  Consultation  Paper  on  Legal  
UK Case Law
Aspects  of  Family  Relationships  (LRC  CP  55—2009)  67.  
Corr  v  IBC  Vehicles  Ltd  [2008]  UKHL  13,  [2008]  1  AC  884.  
Bunt  v  Tilley  [2006]  EWHC  407  (QB),  [2006]  3  All  ER  336  
Websites and blogs
[35].   Fiona  de  Londras,  ‘Adjudication,  Constitutionalism  and  
Trying  to  “Save”  the  ECHR’  (Human  Rights  in  Ireland,  26  
US Case Law January  2011)  
Roe  v  Wade  410  US  113  (1973)  127.   <www.humanrights.ie/index.php/2011/01/26/adjudicati
Arcoren  v  Peters  811  F  2d  392  (8th  Cir  1987).   on-­‐constitutionalism-­‐and-­‐trying-­‐to-­‐save-­‐the-­‐ecthr>  
accessed  30  January  2011.  
Newspaper articles
Carl  O’Brien,  ‘Woman  with  Cancer  Tells  of  her  Abortion  
Ordeal’  The  Irish  Times  (Dublin,  21  December  2010).