Legal News (Commercial & Business)

Recently, Tusla has begun for the first time to maintain a publicly available register of organisations and businesses which are not in compliance with the obligation under the 2015 Act to maintain a Child Safeguarding Statement.

With the aim of making European copyright laws “fit for the digital age”, the European Parliament recently passed Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market.

Welcome to our Summer Newsletter, which we hope you find helpful and interesting. It has been a busy few months here at Hayes. We recently announced the promotion of two new partners – Áine Coghill in our Property department and Katy Meade in our Healthcare department.

In many countries, parties to a contract have an implied duty of good faith to one another. This can have wide-ranging consequences - it may require a duty of candour / disclosure and moral and ethical standards in the parties' behaviour.

The Court of Appeal earlier this year re-examined the tort of “passing off” in the case of Galway Free Range Eggs Limited (“Appellant”) v O’Brien & Ors (“Respondents”) [2019] IECA 8.

Hayes solicitors has again been recognised in the latest edition of leading international legal directory The Legal 500.