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The latest edition of RegBrief covers key developments in financial regulation over the last two months, in particular in relation to money laundering...

The Regulation of Lobbying Act 2015 was signed into law by President Michael D Higgins on 11 March 2015.

On 13 October 2023, the President of Ireland referred the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill to the Supreme Court under Article 26 of the Constitution, the first time the current President has exercised...

Does your contract say what you think? When and how can you enforce under a performance bond? How do you manage the Brexit minefield? These are some of the hot topics crossing the desks of the construction team at Arthur Cox.

The Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis (the "Banking Inquiry") was established in November 2014 as the first inquiry of its kind under new parliamentary inquiry legislation.

Ireland's Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration has unveiled a comprehensive National Cyber Security Strategy 2030, establishing a framework of 29 measures across three strategic pillars to protect the nation's critical infrastructure and citizens from evolving cyber threats.

Funds Quarterly Legal and Regulatory Update, October - December 2019.

As the end of the Brexit transition period on 31 December 2020 (the "Transition End Date") draws closer and political uncertainty continues around the outcome of negotiations between the...

One of the notable features of recent financial services legislation has been to give the Central Bank of Ireland power to make regulations concerning a broad range of financial services activities.

The majority of the reforms introduced by the Regulation of Lobbying and Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) (Amendment) Act 2023...

On 6 April 2021, a seven-judge panel of the Supreme Court gave judgment in Zalewski v An Adjudication Officer, The Workplace Relations Commission and Others .

The GDPR Procedural Regulation introduces uniform procedural rules for handling cross-border data protection complaints across the EU, establishing binding deadlines and new rights for parties under investigation. Will these standardised procedures finally resolve the systematic delays and inconsistencies that have plagued the GDPR's one-stop-shop enforcement mechanism since 2018?

The Irish Government's alleged failure to mitigate climate change is the subject of a legal challenge taken by Friends of the Irish Environment CLG (FIE) ...

As readers will be aware, both the EU and the Central Bank of Ireland took a series of measures in the lead up to 29 March this year to provide as much stability as possible in the event of a hard Brexit.

The 2010 Supreme Court decision in Meadows v The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform [2010] IESC 3 clarified the extent to which a decision of an administrative decision-maker might successfully be set aside by way of judicial review on the basis of a lack of proportionality, as opposed to the previous, higher-threshold, bases of utter unreasonableness or irrationality.

Judicial review is a narrow remedy, which enables you to challenge only the legality of a decision, not its merits.

The Banking Inquiry published its final report on 27 January 2016. One of its recommendations is that the freedom of information ("FOI") exemptions should be reviewed...