Legal Updates & Insights

Dec 2016

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We are delighted with readers' response to our new Question of the month in the Front Page. Thank you. We invite readers to send topical questions which would be of...

Nov 2016

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ESMA Q&A on application of AIFMD

Nov 2016

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The Front Page, Asset Management & Investment Funds: Upcoming approaching deadlines

Nov 2016

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The Supreme Court has given leave to Permanent TSB to appeal the decision of the Court of Appeal in Permanent TSB plc v Langan [2016] IECA 229, which held that the Circuit...

Nov 2016

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This case concerned the termination of two demand guarantees by the Plaintiff who was acting as personal representative of an individual who had died in 2012 (the Deceased). The Plaintiff argued...

Nov 2016

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Some good news, on 25 November, the Central Bank announced an important change to their requirements for loan originating Qualifying Investor AIFs (LQIAIFs) which is to take effect from 3 January 2017 when...

Nov 2016

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The Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and the Protocol to the Convention on Matters Specific to Aircraft Equipment (Cape Town Convention) has taken effect in Australia, Ivory Coast,...

Nov 2016

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Last month, two Uber drivers in London won their test cases before the UK Employment Tribunal (the ET). The ET held that they were "workers" and not self-employed individuals. The...

Nov 2016

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This recent High Court decision highlights the importance for defendants to conduct a forensic analysis of the strengths and weakness of their defences as early as possible. Those with defences...

Nov 2016

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The Protected Disclosures Act 2014 continues to show its teeth with another successful application for interim relief granted in Cork Circuit Court.