Feb 2018
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Ireland, unlike England and Wales, does not have sentencing guidance relative to health and safety offences. Having said that, there are quite a number of Court decisions that provide useful...
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The issue of unfair contract terms in loan contracts, and the extent of the obligation on a Court to examine this issue without it being raised by the parties, is...
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The Court of Appeal recently delivered judgment in a long running disability discrimination case which is noteworthy from an employer's perspective. The judgment brings clarity to the law on the...
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The Intoxicating Liquor (Amendment) Act 2018 was signed into law by President Higgins on 31 January 2018.
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From a domestic perspective, the European Union (Payment Services) Regulations 2018 were implemented, transposing PSD2 into Irish law. The Central Bank updated the application forms for firms seeking authorisation and also...
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At a domestic level, the Central Bank published the 4th edition of its investment firms questions and answers in line with the implementation of MiFID II and MiFIR. From a...
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From a domestic perspective, the Central Bank issued new quarterly statistics; the Cost of Insurance Working Group published report on employer and public liability insurance. On the European front, EIOPA...
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This month the Central Bank published the twenty-eighth Edition of AIFMD Q&A and the twenty-second edition of UCITS Q&A. On the European front, the European Commission published a...
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On a domestic front, the main update this month is that the Central Bank has issued Irish its responses to the January 2018 Bank Lending Survey. From a European perspective, the...
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The Central Bank of Ireland (Central Bank) announced its intention to broaden the scope of what a Loan Originating Qualifying Investor AIF (LO-QIAIF) may invest in to include "investment in...
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