http://hdl.handle.net/10379/894 2017-10-29T22:04:37Z http://hdl.handle.net/10379/6798 Financial provision on relationship breakdown in Ireland: A constitutional lacuna? Buckley, Lucy-Ann In recent decades, legislation has had an extraordinary impact on personal property rights in the context of marital and relationship breakdown. Initially under the Judicial Separation and Family Law Reform Act 1989, and subsequently under the Family Law Act 1995 and the Family Law (Divorce) Act 1996, courts are empowered to make a wide range of ancillary property orders on judicial separation and divorce. These include orders for the sale or transfer of property, periodical payment orders, lump sum orders, pension adjustment orders and financial compensation orders. 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10379/6769 Climate change law and policy after Copenhagen Kennedy, Rónán This article deals with recent developments in climate change law and policy. It examines the likely future developments in international negotiations for a successor to the Kyoto Protocol; briefly summarises climate change legislation before the US Congress; mentions recent European legislation on the topic; and summarises proposals for climate change legislation in Ireland, including the recent Framework for the Climate Change Bill. It concludes that future development in this area will be slow, difficult and uncertain, with international efforts likely to splinter in the coming months but that Europe will remain a dominant force in climate change policy globally and that comprehensive legislation in Ireland is likely in the near future, along with related changes in other areas of law. 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10379/6768 The Irish national climate change strategy: new laws, future policies? Kennedy, Rónán This paper is an overview of climate change law and policy in Ireland. It sketches the background to the international agreements covering climate change emissions. It also gives a brief summary of relevant European legislation. It then looks at the two Irish National Climate Change Strategy documents and summarises the relevant Irish legislation. Finally, it points to some possible developments in national policy in the future, looking particularly at initiatives in Scotland and New Zealand. While climate change policy is wide-ranging, diverse and employs many forms of market and social intervention, the focus here is on legal instruments that relate directly to climate change. The paper concludes that law is only part of an overall mix of policy instruments and tools that must be applied in order to deal with the complex challenge of climate change. 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10379/6767 New ideas or false hopes? : International, European, and Irish climate change law and policy after the Paris Agreement Kennedy, Rónán This article is an overview and summary of recent developments in international, European and Irish climate change law and policy. It places the recently-concluded Paris Agreement in the context of the US-China Deal on climate, announced in late 2014, which indicate that while bilateral and small-scale agreements are still important, the large multilateral United Nations treaty track is by no means as moribund as some commentators have thought. It also considers present and future European Union measures on climate, particularly the so-called ‘20/20/20’ target, the ‘2030 Framework’, and the action plan for 2050. It discusses the first dedicated Irish legislation on climate change, the Climate Action and Low-Carbon Development Act 2015, outlining its main provisions and highlighting its weaknesses. Finally, it surveys climate change litigation globally, focusing on the Dutch Urgenda case and the Pakistani Leghari case, concluding by assessing the likelihood and desirability of similar litigation in Ireland. 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z