Mar 2020

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The Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (FSPO) last week published 25 Legally Binding Decisions, which were issued between January 2019 and January 2020 regarding tracker mortgage interest rates. In short, of the 25 complaints in respect of which Legally Binding Decisions were published, 17 complaints were not upheld, 6 complaints were substantially or partially upheld, and 2 complaints...

Mar 2020

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On 28 February 2020, Ireland's Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) announced that it had closed its investigation into alleged anti-competitive practices in the "bagged cement sector".

Feb 2020

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ESMA on Sustainable Finance, ESMA TRV report, SFTR reporting obligations for non-EU AIFs,consultation on third country firms, AIFMD MoUs, ESRB issues with the AIFMD framework, ESMA's product intervention powers, Brexit, AML/CTF

Feb 2020

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Liquidity, CBI review of PRISM, Property Funds, CBI Review of Stakeholder Engagement and Key frameworks, Diversity, Market Conduct and Market Abuse and CBI Markets Update.

Feb 2020

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What's relevant in 2020 in ESG legislation and policy for UCITS managers and AIFMs?

Feb 2020

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The Irish Revenue Commissioners have published the Betting Duty and Betting Intermediary Duty (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (the Regulations), offering relief to small independent bookmakers from the 2% betting duty levied on every bet entered into with persons in the State. The relief applies to bookmakers that hold an Irish bookmaker, remote bookmaker or remote betting intermediary's licence.

Feb 2020

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The 'Rule in Battle' (the Rule) states that corporate entities may be represented only by lawyers who have a formal right of audience in court proceedings and not by non-lawyer directors or shareholders.

Feb 2020

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In Malone v Fenlon & Ors [2019] IEHC 934, the High Court found that a plea of absolute privilege as a defence to a claim in defamation was insufficiently clearly made out to justify striking out the claim.

Feb 2020

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On 21 February 2020, the European Commission imposed a fine of €6,678,000 on the Spanish hotel group Meliá for its contracts with four tour operators which discriminated between customers within the EU's internal market by reference to the customer's country of residence. Dr Vincent J G Power examines the case.

Feb 2020

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In this three part series we review wider considerations for employers which, whilst falling outside the ambit of routine employment law issues, are worth noting. This article addresses inventions created by employees.