The Annual Review of Irish Law is a comprehensive treatise on judicial and statutory developments in Irish law. Each volume in this widely acclaimed series provides practitioners, academics and students with an analytic and perceptive account of legal developments during the year in question. Raymond Byrne is a barrister and lecturer in law at Dublin City Univeristy. He is also Director of Research at the Law Reform Commission. William Binchy is a Senior Counsel and Regius Professor of Law at Trinity College Dublin.