Feb 2022

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Anticipated regulations to establish a central database of information on safe-deposit boxes and payment accounts have been published.

Feb 2022

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The Commercial Court has recently delivered judgment in Irish Airline Pilots Pension DAC v Mercer [2022] IEHC 22  which considered the approach that a court will take in interpreting an agreed category of discovery in circumstances where there is a dispute regarding the extent of the relevant category.

Feb 2022

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The Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill (the Bill) continues its progress through the Irish legislature and has now reached the Committee stage (the third stage, before the Dáil).

Feb 2022

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As employers will be aware, with effect from 24 January 2022 the government changed its advice in relation to the requirement for home working to allow a phased return to physical workplaces.

Jan 2022

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On Sunday, 30 January 2022, Ireland's Enterprise Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, Leo Varadkar TD, announced the unveiling of the Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022.

Jan 2022

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On 10 September 2021, the UK government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport ('DCMS') published their proposed reforms to the UK’s data protection regime in a document entitled, Data: A new direction.

Jan 2022

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PRIIPs KID deadlines, CSA on valuation of UCITS and open-ended AIFs, UCITS investment restrictions, UCITS hedged share classes, marketing of new share classes cross-border, AIFM investment in crypto-assets, reverse solicitation, EU AML list of high risk third countries

Jan 2022

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Deadlines, fees for non-discretionary investment advisors providing services to a QIAIF, performance fees in multi-manager UCITS and RIAIFs, outsourcing, board meetings and tax residence, company law flexibility measures, CBI Markets Update, IF FAQs on EU Taxonomy

Jan 2022

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Following on from the sudden lifting of many public health restrictions and amongst a flurry of media attention arising from reports of employees being overwhelmingly in favour of continuing to work from home, the draft scheme of the Right to Request Remote Working Bill 2022 was published this week.

Jan 2022

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The General Scheme of the Gambling Regulation Bill which was unveiled on 21 October 2021 has been included in the list of 'priority legislation' scheduled for drafting and publication during the first half of this year.