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While Covid and housing may currently dominate the news headlines, one topic that is sure to come to the forefront again soon is the issue of the pension age gap.

David Phelan, Head of Commercial and Business, contributed to this piece by Lorraine Courtney for The Business Post Intellectual Property Report, 8 August 2021.

In June 2021, the Victorian Supreme Court of Appeal upheld an important decision of the Supreme Court of Victoria concerning the law of defamation.

The Court of Appeal recently delivered a helpful decision in which it confirmed that the rules for appointment of an equitable receiver over EU agricultural payments are those set out by the Court of Appeal and confirmed by the Supreme Court in  ACC Loan Management Limited v Rickard [2017] IESC 29.

The High Court (Mr Justice Sanfey) recently ordered that Mr Peter Conlon of Pembroke Dynamic Internet Services Limited (in liquidation) be disqualified for the longest period of disqualification ever ordered in the history of the State, following an application by the liquidator Myles Kirby.