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Occupiers' Liability by Dr. Elaine Fahey, BL

The Occupiers Liability Act 1995 was introduced to radically restrict the rights of hill walkers and other members of the public as entrants to lands and premises. However its practical operation in the recent decade has been far from radical and the dearth of caselaw has created a level of uncertainty for advisers and practitioners alike. This Paper discusses the impact on occupiers liability resulting from important new judgments ranging from the Circuit to Supreme Courts.

Speaker Bio

Dr. Elaine Fahey LL.B (Dub.)., LL.M. (Cantab.), Ph.D (Dub.) Attorney-at-Law (New York) Barrister-at-law (King's Inns), is a graduate and Scholar of Trinity College Dublin and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and an Assistant Lecturer in law at the Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland. She has lectured and taught at Trinity College Dublin and the Law Society of Ireland. She formerly worked as a Judicial Research Assistant in the Judges' Library Four Courts, Dublin. Her doctoral thesis is in the area of Article 234 EC preliminary references and she is the author of numerous publications in the area including the forthcoming title Practice and Procedure in Preliminary References to Europe: 30 years of Article 234 EC caselaw from the Irish Courts (Firstlaw, Dublin, forthcoming), Irish Tort Legislation (Firstlaw, 2007) and is the editor of the new monthly publication European Law Update: European Regulatory and ECJ Developments (Firstlaw, 2007).

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