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The prospect of a hard Brexit casts a long shadow for our closest neighbour. However, there is a compelling business case for investment in Ireland.

It is undeniable that discovery applications take up a considerable amount of the court’s time and the discovery process is often a source of extensive delays and significant additional costs to the parties to proceedings.

On 1 August 2018, new Superior Court, District Court and Circuit Court Rules came into operation allowing “bona fide” members of the media to request disclosure of information contained in a court record.

The Law Reform Commission has published an Issues Paper on reporting of Court proceedings.

The partners at Hayes solicitors were delighted to host a Corporate Governance breakfast at our offices on Thursday 6 September 2018.

As most recently demonstrated in O’Reilly & Anor v Neville & Ors, we are seeing a trend towards a more nuanced approach to the awarding of legal costs in litigation.