Law Matters

Majority shareholders ordered to purchase petitioner’s shares without discount In re Donegal Investment Group Plc [2015] IEHC 439 (High Court, McGover(...)

There were developments in September in relation to the European Law obligation on airlines to pay compensation where a flight is delayed or (...)

The victim impact statement has become a familiar part of criminal trials. After the sombre formalities of the trial process, the injured party is fin(...)

An examiner is not required to provide commercially sensitive information to bona fide potential investor. In re Ladbrokes (Irl) Ltd IEHC 381 (High C(...)

Billionaire businessman Denis O’Brien, journalist Ian Bailey, solicitor Brian O’Donnell and the family of businessman Seán Quinn – a new law term b(...)

The Irish Society for European Law, together with the UK Association of European Law, is hosting an event on the legal implications of a potential Bre(...)

The recent judgment of the Supreme Court in the case of Irish Life and Permanent PLC and Dunne and Irish Life and Permanent PLC and Dunphy puts the fi(...)

Legal professional privilege was a pressing social need necessitating prior restraint of publication  O’Brien vs Raidió Teilifís Éireann [20(...)

The Irish State regularly subjects people it knows to be innocent to a criminal trial in the hope that they will be acquitted. Welcome to the baffling(...)

The recently published Civil Liability Amendment Bill 2015 relating to Periodic Payment Orders has been eagerly awaited by many practitioners since th(...)