Conducting Corporate Investigations – Recent Developments

Overview

Corporate investigations are an increasingly common feature of corporate activity, as illustrated by recent media headlines here and across the water.

Three recent decisions provide important guidance in this area, as follows.

• Firstly, on Tuesday 4 September 2018, the Irish High Court agreed to appoint inspectors to one of Ireland's largest media groups, providing detailed analysis of its powers of appointment under section 748 of the Companies Act 2014¹.
• On the following day, the UK Court of Appeal delivered a seminal judgment on the scope of legal privilege which, while not binding, may in time have implications for disclosure in internal investigations in Ireland².