[2]: 234 Cóic Conara Fugill is a short and difficult text, but is the only early Irish law tract to deal with how a litigant could put his case before a judge.
[3]: 114 Only limited information about court procedure is available from other law tracts (for example, the short Airecht-text which tells us where people were sat in a court-room).
In the earlier, RE recension, these five paths are named fír ('truth'), dliged ('entitlement'), cert ('justice'), téchtae ('propriety') and coir n-athchomairc ('proper enquiry').
[7]: 100 Thurneysen's study concluded that the system described in Cóic Conara Fugill was a "dead text" by the 10th or 11th centuries on the basis of later jurists' treatment of it.
[4]: 247 Binchy suggested that there was a strong element influence on the writings of this school; this contention has come under criticism from Donnchadh Ó Corráin, Liam Breatnach and Aidan Breen.