Jun 2015
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The Minister for Justice has published the General Scheme of the Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2015 to empower the courts to award Periodic Payment Orders (PPOs), instead of the current lump...
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On the International Front, we look at the AIFMD Q&A, UCITS and EMIR, Money Market Funds, ELTIFs, Capital Markets Union, Investment-based crowdfunding, the Fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive and Wire...
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On the Domestic Front, we look at the Companies Act 2014, the Central Bank Annual Report 2014 and Annual Performance Statement, EuSEFs, EuVECAs, Client Assets and Investor Money, Consultation on Corporate Governance...
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In 2005 the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) commenced an investigation into banking services in Northern Ireland in respect of Personal Current Accounts (PCA). Following this investigation the Competition Commission brought...
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In our January 2015 briefing ("Calculating Holiday Pay – Lock down what you should be paying"), we considered the potential impact for employers in Ireland of the European Court of Justice ("CJEU"...
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A recent High Court decision has confirmed that a communication by a financial institution to a credit reference body gives rise to an occasion of qualified privilege, thus defeating a...
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On 8 May 2015, in Greenclean Waste Management Ltd v Leahy p/a Maurice Leahy & Co. Solicitors [2015] IECA 97, the Court of Appeal considered whether the trial judge was correct to refuse to...
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Peter Walker, Partner and Jack Sheehy, Partner, in the Banking and Financial Services Department discuss the Irish legal guide to securitisation.
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The Companies Act 2014 (the "2014 Act") comes into force on 1 June 2015, consolidating and reforming Irish company law. In particular, directors' duties, having long been the product of ad hoc decisions by...
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Today the County Court of Northern Ireland made its decision that Ashers Baking Company Limited directly discriminated against a customer on the grounds of sexual orientation contrary to the Equality...
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