The latest stage in efforts to modernise Irish law is to be unveiled by the Law Reform Commission today.
Attorney General Paul Gallagher will publish the commission's consultation paper on Statute Law Restatement and Better Regulation.
The reform process is aimed at making legislation more accessible and comes against the background of modernising the Statute Book in Ireland.
A top Australian judge said Ireland's colonial past had left it with a legal system in need of reform.
Mr Justice Michael Kirby of the Australian High Court yesterday told the Law Reform Commission's Annual Conference that both Ireland and Australia embraced English law in the past but now had to adapt it to suit their societies' needs.
The commission's Second Programme of Law Reform, which includes the examination of 30 specific areas, was agreed in 2000 and runs to the end of this year.
The commission has almost completed its seven-year second programme of law reform and is now inviting public submissions on the third.