Legal News (Commercial & Business)

The Scheme of the Consumer Rights Bill 2021 seeks to substantially reform, modernize and consolidate existing consumer protection legislation spread over different pieces of primary and secondary legislation.

Currently, in this jurisdiction there is no legislative framework to facilitate class action cases. Instead, the Courts can deal with multi-party actions in several ways under the Rules of the Superior Courts and through various statutory provisions.

High Court rules against disappointed investors seeking information on investment from liquidator of fund – Second Irish Forestry Fund PLC (in liquidation) & Ors -v- Companies Act [2021] IEHC 488 – judgment delivered 16 July 2021

The Government has approved the publication of the Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Bill 2021. 

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.