Legal News (Regulatory & Administrative Law)

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,

CORU, the Health and Social Care Professionals Council, is the regulator for a number of health and social care professions, including Social Workers; Radiologists, Speech and Language Therapists and Occupational Therapists, amongst others.

2019 has seen significant change in the area of pharmacy regulation, with even greater change anticipated in 2020.

Most Irish companies are required to maintain an internal register of its beneficial owners. There is also now an important new obligation to file information about the beneficial owners to a new Central Register, maintained by the CRO.

The Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019 (“the Bill”) has recently completed Committee stage in Dáil Éireann and is expected to be signed into law by the end of 2019.

Head of Corporate, Ken Casey and his team at Hayes solicitors, have authored the Irish Chapter of the latest Chambers and Partners Corporate M&A Guide.