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The High Court has dismissed all seven headings of a land conveyance counterclaim, deeming it to be “clearly an abuse of process”. The plaintiffs, solicitor Andrea McIlroy-Rose and her late father John McIlroy, issued proceedings in 2016 seeking injunctive relief and damages for an alleg

Our regular round-up of deals involving Irish law firms. Submit your deals to newsdesk@irishlegal.com. Ronan Daly Jermyn has acted as Irish legal advisor to GTT Communications, Inc. on the sale of its infrastructure business to I Squared Capital.

The Court of Appeal has ruled that the Health Service Executive (HSE) was required to carry out assessments of children with suspected disabilities on a chronological and nationwide basis. In so ruling, the Court rejected a submission that the HSE could carry out such assessments of need on a region

The English Court of Appeal has refused permission to appeal by a 41-year-old man against a decision not to grant two orders in his favour to secure financial support from his still-married parents. Faiz Siddiqui, who was aged 41 at the time of the original hearing, argued that orders under the 

During the decades that Keith Walsh has been practising family law, the world in which he operates has undergone a period of seismic change. When he joined the Legal Aid Board in Dublin as a clerk in 1998, divorce was virtually unheard of in the country – and it tended to come with a sense of

A judge in the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia has ruled that jurors who were not fully vaccinated against Covid-19 ought to be excused from jury service after the issue was raised during pre-trial proceedings. The trial took place at the Digby Pines Resort in Nova Scotia, Canada, as the local courthou

The Court of Appeal has overturned a High Court decision which determined that the minister for justice and equality failed to consider the “emotional and social dependency” in a non-EU national’s application for an EU residency card. The High Court held that the minister’s d

Ronan Hynes, partner at Sellors LLP, offers a sneak peek into the law firm of the future. As we start to emerge from Covid-19 and take stock in a post-pandemic world, is there an opportunity to rethink the future law firm operating model? What does the future hold for law firms and the legal industr

Jude Murray BL thoroughly delves into Ireland's landmark new capacity legislation ahead of its commencement and summarises the key sections. The Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 is due to fully commence in 2022. It is a very significant new piece of capacity legislation that addresses a

Northern Ireland's High Court has rejected all grounds of appeal against an extradition warrant to Poland. Although Poland’s courts had a "general systemic deficiency", the court held that this did not create a presumption that the applicant would be denied a fair trial. The applicant, Kamil C

Uncertainty remains as to the correct interpretation of Article 82 of GDPR for the right of data subjects to obtain compensation for breaches of data. Rose Caroline McGrath BL and Mark Finan BL consider some of the approaches which are emerging from the references to the CJEU and the UK case law tog

One year after the Pegasus Project revelations, the lack of a global moratorium on the sale of spyware is allowing the surveillance industry to continue unchecked, Amnesty International warned today. The Pegasus Project uncovered how governments worldwide were using NSO Group’s invasive Pegasu

Matheson partners Kate McKenna and Davinia Brennan explain coming changes to Ireland's data retention regime. New Irish data retention laws governing the retention and access of electronic communications data are in the pipeline following two fresh data retention judgments from the Court of Justice

Sinead Morgan, senior associate at RDJ LLP, considers the challenges for employers in handling remote working during an energy crisis. The hybrid working revolution triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic has been credited for accelerating innovative working practices such as remote working by years, if

The Supreme Court has allowed an appeal brought by an accused who claimed that the Court of Appeal failed to consider the totality principle in his case. The man had successfully argued in the Court of Appeal that the trial judge had erred in sentencing him for several indecent assault offences, but