McMahon and Binchy on the Law of Torts

(Hardback, 5th edition)

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"The virtual acceptance of this work ... is the surest testimony to the great worth of this textbook."
[2001] 01 The Irish Judicial Studies Journal, review of the third edition, Mr Justice Iarflaith O'Neill

First published in 1980, McMahon and Binchy on the Law of Torts has long been a cornerstone work in Irish law. The Fifth Edition remains an essential resource for both practitioners and students.

This peerless examination of Irish tort law has been extensively revised and analyses the significance of such decisions as:

Nolan v Wirenski [2016] IECA 56 (damages)
Cantrell v Allied Irish Banks plc [2020] IESC 71 (limitations)
Ruffley v Board of Management of St Anne's School [2017] IESC 33 (workplace bullying)
Cromane Seafoods Ltd v Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food [2016] IESC 6 (legitimate expectation)
Whelan v Allied Irish Banks Ltd [2014] IESC 3 (duty of care)
University College Cork v Electricity Supply Board [2020] IESC 38 (negligence)

Key legislation is also examined, such as:

Data Protection Act 2018
Protected Disclosures Act 2014
Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Act 2022
Personal Injuries Resolution Board Act 2022
Consumer Rights Act 2022
Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2023

This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Irish Civil Litigation online service.

Reviews

McMahon and Binchy remains the textbook of choice for litigators. The authors ... remain brilliant examples of the academics who emerged from a new generation of lawyers. -- Michael Kealey * Gazette, review of 4th edition *
... practitioners frequently forego opening the relevant authorities, being content to quote the relevant passages from McMahon and Binchy and judges have rarely if ever resisted. The virtual universal acceptance of this work ... is the surest testimony to the great worth of this text book. -- Mr Justice Iarflaith O'Neill * [2001] 01 The Irish Judicial Studies Journal, review of the third edition *

Author Bio

Bryan McMahon, former judge of the High Court, received his BCL and LLB degrees from University College Dublin before accepting a fellowship to Harvard Law School, where he was awarded the LLM in 1965. Mr Justice McMahon was subsequently Professor of Law and Head of the Department of Law in University College Cork for 20 years. In 1987, he went into private legal practice, while holding a part-time professorship at University College Galway. In 1999 he was appointed to the Bench as a Judge of the Circuit Court and in 2007 to the High Court, from which he retired in April 2011. Mr Justice McMahon has co-authored many legal texts, including Law of Torts; casebook in Irish Law of Torts; European Community law in Ireland, etc. Mr Justice McMahon has chaired, at the request of the government, The National Crime Forum, the National Archives Advisory Council, and Referendums for the Amendment of the Constitution. He has lectured extensively in Europe and USA on a variety of legal topics. He is currently Chair of the Governing Body of University College Cork, and a former Chairman of the Abbey Theatre, Ireland's national theatre. He was awarded an LL.D (honoris causa) by University College, Dublin in 2012.

William Binchy BA BCL LLM (NUI) MA (DUBL) FTCD (1995), Barrister-at-Law.
William Binchy is a practising barrister. He was Regius Professor of Laws at Trinity College, Dublin from 1992 to 2012 and continues to lecture on its Master of Laws Degree programme. He was formerly a special legal adviser on family law reform to the Irish Department of Justice and Research Counsellor to the Law Reform Commission. He was a Commissioner with the Irish Human Rights Commission for two terms, from 2000 to 2011.
He was Visiting Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Michaelmas Term 2002) and Visiting Fellow at the Institute of European and Comparative Law, Oxford (June 2011). He has authored, co-authored and co-edited books on private international law, torts and family law, and acts as expert witness in private international law in litigation throughout Europe.
He has represented Ireland at the Hague Conference on Private International Law on the themes of marriage and inter-country adoption and the Irish Human Rights Commission at the United Nations during the formulation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. He was a member of the Hederman Committee on the Offences Against the State Acts.
He has acted as consultant to the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs in relation to the Timor-Leste judicial system and is editor of a book on comparative aspects of the Timorese legal system. He has organised an annual workshop at Trinity College Dublin for African Chief Justices and senior judiciary and has co-edited books on comparative aspects of the legal systems of South Africa, Tanzania and Botswana.