In Ireland, decisions of the United Kingdom and other common law courts, are highly persuasive. Decisions of the Courts of appeal in Northern Ireland and England and Wales and decisions of the House of Lords, now the UK Supreme Court would be of very high persuasive authority in relation to many important areas of law, such as contract and tort law.\u00a0 They would not, however, be binding and the influence of the Irish Constitution may tilt the balance away from following the UK approach to some legal issues.<\/p>\n
Despite a similar legal heritage, U.S. decisions are very rarely cited and applied in Irish courts. Decisions of judgments in the U.S. are occasionally cited in Constitutional matters. US textbooks have not traditionally circulated in Ireland. US law Libraries are not commonly maintained in Ireland. The US consists of 50 jurisdictions, in addition to the federal jurisdiction.<\/p>\n\n
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Hierarchy of Courts and Precedent Precedent works in the context of the hierarchy of courts.\u00a0 In Ireland, the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal stand in the hierarchy above the High Courts and deal principally with points of law.\u00a0 A decision of the Supreme Court is binding on the High Court and is generally binding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19013,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6321\/revisions\/19013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}