Legal News (Litigation & Dispute Resolution)

A recent report by the European Commission has expressed concern about Ireland's defamation laws.  The comments appear in the Commission Staff Working Document relating to Ireland, as part of its 2020 Rule of Law Report.

The Civil Law and Criminal Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2020 was signed into law on 6 August 2020 to respond to the challenges that the Irish legal profession faces due to Covid-19.

In a District Court prosecution this week, CORU succeeded in obtaining convictions in respect of two individuals who were found to be using the titles of ‘Occupational Therapist’ and ‘Speech and Language Therapist’ without the requisite CORU registration,

In Dowman Imports Ltd v 2 Toobz Ltd [2020] EWHC 291 (Comm), the English High Court recently held that the respondent was unjustly enriched and awarded restitution to a claimant who provided services where a contract was anticipated, but not concluded.

Hayes recently successfully defended a Liquidator in an action by a shareholder of a company to remove him in a long running complex liquidation of a company with foreign subsidiaries and assets.