The High Court (Court) recently refused a winding up petition brought against Lestown Property Limited (Company) for unpaid rent.

In a recent article we set out the key features of SCARP, the government's proposed rescue process for small and micro companies. The proposed legislation envisages that:

Dáil Éireann will resume on 18 September 2024. Key upcoming legislation to watch out for includes:

High Court considers the meaning of when a company is insolvent for the purposes of an examinership and exercises its discretion against the appointment of an examiner on the basis of a lack of engagement with landlords.

New standards for rented residential accommodation will come into effect on 1 July 2017 with the introduction of the Housing (Standards for Rented Houses) Regulations 2017.

The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage has published regulations dealing with rates abatement and rates waiver schemes under...

The Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (COVID-19) Bill 2020 was published on 25 March 2020. The Bill amends the Residential Tenancies Acts

This week the Government published Q&A on the rental market reforms announced on 10 June 2025 (for more on the announcement, please see our briefing and video podcast).

The case of "Leander Construction Ltd v Mulalley & Company Ltd [2011] EWHC 3449", heard before the Technology and Construction Court in the United Kingdom, recently considered the question as to whether a sub-contractor is under an implied obligation to a main contractor to proceed ‘regularly and diligently’ with the sub-contract works.

New standards for rented residential accommodation will come into effect on 1 July 2017 with the introduction of the Housing (Standards for Rented Houses) Regulations 2017.

Last week the Supreme Court published their judgment in the long running landlord and tenant dispute between RGRE Grafton Limited (the “Landlord”) and Bewley’s Café Grafton Street Limited (the “Tenant”) and Bewley’s Limited in relation to the ownership of six 1920s Harry Clarke stained glass works (the “Works”) in Bewley’s café, Grafton Street. The Supreme Court found that the Works were part and parcel of the premises and were therefore the property of the Landlord.

Recent decisions of the High Court, here1 and in England and Wales2, serve as an important reminder that landlord rights to consent to tenant proposals are robust and that tenant applications for consent...

The Residential Tenancies and Valuation Act 2020 (the "Act") came into effect on the 1 August 2020 to replace the Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (COVID-19)

The core issue in Oyster Shuckers Limited t/a Klaw v Architecture Manufacture Support (EU) Limited [2020] IEHC 527 centred around the validity of a lease of a premises operated as a restaurant by

This residential tenancy eviction moratorium automatically applied from 31 December 2020 until the recent 5km restrictions were lifted on 12 April 2021.

Disputes often arise between landlords and tenants during the term of a lease, the most common of which is where one party alleges there has been a breach of a covenant or a condition in the lease, such as a failure to pay rent.

A recent Circuit Court judgment has cast some light on the rules that apply when a commercial tenant claims statutory renewal rights, and then withdraws that claim.

The new Green Lease Toolkit which has been launched by the Better Buildings Partnership in the UK is sure to inform thinking, not just in the UK...

The Residential Tenancies Act 2020 (the "RTA 20") temporarily prevents the eviction of residential tenants (in all but exceptional cases)

The proposed Recast Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (the EPB Recast Directive) looks set to bring about significant changes to the way in which buildings are constructed and maintained.