Legal News ()

The Court of Appeal recently delivered a significant judgment on the interpretation of the Statute of Limitations 1957 (as amended) in the context of investment disputes in a case where Hayes acted for one of the defendants.

A number of our partners have again been listed in the latest edition of Chambers Global.

Section 416 of the Companies Act 2014 requires that evidence of satisfaction of a registered charge in the Companies Registration Office (“CRO”) must be submitted in order for the Registrar to mark a charge as satisfied on the register.

In the recent decision of Ryanair DAC v Peter Bellew [2019] IEHC 907, the Irish High Court refused Ryanair’s application for an injunction to restrain its former COO, Peter Bellew, from taking up employment with rival budget airline easyJet.

The Finance Act 2019 (enacted on 22 December 2019) has provided welcome clarification to transferees of fixed charges.

The Information Commissioner’s Office (“the ICO”) in the UK has recently issued fines to two separate businesses for breaches of data protection obligations.