Recent Irish Employment Law

Recently the Irish High Court has delivered two judgments which should be of interest to all company directors. (Each case concerned Phoenix Shannon plc. ) The first case concerned a claim for reinstatement by the operations director and a Vice President of a Company, who had been dismissed. The second concerned a claim that by reason of the failure to convene an annual general meeting in accordance with the time scales prescribed by the Companies Acts that directors who had been co-opted onto the board should be deemed to have vacated office on the date that the AGM should have been held. This ruling also has implications for directors who are required to resign by rotation.

John Coman and Sheena Doggett, Partners in A & L Goodbody's Company and Commercial Department, take a look at these judgments.