away from the influence of the common law system and “perhaps even rupture” centuries-long ties between the Irish and English legal systems, a leading Irish judge has said.
“It is like one of these Apollo missions: the mother ship is finally untethered and the big mother ship is moving away and we are almost in the lunar lander somewhere between the Earth and the moon,” he told the EU Bar Association’s annual conference near the Four Courts in Dublin.
Highly unlikely that Ireland will be 'torn' away from common law all at once, what would it be replaced with? More likely is that we will see a gradual divergence in laws between the UK and Ireland and Irish law will continue to be influenced by he EU. CLICKBAIT
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