The Circuit Court has awarded €7,500 in a personal-data-breach claim against a Government agency, the highest such award, write Rachel Hayes, Adele Hall and Aoife Keenan of William Fry. The case ...

Lawyers at Philip Lee say that a recent Court of Appeal decision has provided more clarity on how contracting authorities should approach the issue of tenders that appear to be abnormally low. The ...

Lawyers at A&L Goodbody (ALG) have described as “significant” a recent High Court judgment that centred on the treatment of insurance contracts in a winding-up. The decision concerned CBL Insurance ...

The Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022 is set to introduce important amendments to the 2015 act. Eimear Burke, Hannah Unger and Ciara Dowd BL spotlight some of the more ...

Practice Direction HC 97 is beautiful in its simplicity and will save considerable amounts of court time, reduce costs for litigants – and is ecologically friendly. The best ideas are the simplest.

The Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) has opened a month-long consultation on the draft regulatory framework for the introduction of new legal partnerships. The LSRA is inviting written ...

COVID-19 has prompted lawyers to rapidly familiarise themselves with the legal framework governing virtual closings and remote signings in a remote work environment. There is no doubt that COVID-19 ...

There were 33 bankruptcy adjudications in Q4 last year, up from eight in Q3 and 29 in Q2, according to a statistical report from the Insolvency Service of Ireland (ISI). There were 301 new ...

The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) increased the number of hearings it held last year by 75% to more than 3,300, according to its annual report. The body said that this enabled it to deal with a ...

In DPP v Hutch and Others, the permitting of evidence to be admitted into the trial – found by the court to have been unlawfully obtained ab initio – is a matter of great concern to practising ...

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