The Irish Government's "White Collar Crime Package" proposes a range of reforms for the financial services industry.

The Covid-19 pandemic has changed, or dramatically accelerated the rate of change, in working practices for people in all sectors of the economy.

Regulatory authorities in Ireland and the UK have begun to adopt a more aggressive stance on legal professional privilege in the context of regulatory investigations.

We analyse the comments made at a Future of Financial Intelligence Sharing Event in Dublin.

There are, typically, no issues with Irish Courts finding companies liable for strict, absolute and vicarious liability offences where appropriate as it does not have to be proved....

The Central Bank of Ireland (the "Central Bank") recently published its response to the Law Reform Commission's Issues Paper on "Regulatory Enforcement and Corporate Offences".

The Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Act 2018 has been enacted. The Act is one aspect of the intended reform of the law relating to corruption and corporate crime in Ireland.

When can a manager be prosecuted for offences committed by a body corporate?

This article explains Ireland's experience with requests for judicial cooperation from the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO). In a letter to the European Commission dated 23 November 2022...

The Irish white collar crime landscape has seen some significant developments in the past 24 months, including the introduction of a swathe of regulations and legislation intended...

The Minister for Justice and Equality, Charlie Flanagan, announced Monday, 30 July 2018, that the Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Act 2018 has come into force.

The Irish Government, through the Departments of Business, Finance and Justice, has identified four distinct themes in order to strengthen the existing regulatory and legislative framework ...

The single defence available to corporates for this offence is demonstrating that the company took "all reasonable steps and exercised all due diligence" to avoid the offence being committed.

The government's recently published Spring Legislation Programme features the Criminal Justice Bill 2020, which is currently at Committee Stage before the Dail.

Obligation on third party service providers to draw up and maintain their own insider lists.

In a landmark judgment delivered on 31 July 2018, the Supreme Court has ruled in the case of SPV OSUS Limited v HSBC Institutional Trust Services (Ireland) Limited & Ors [1] that the assignment...

The government has published the Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Bill 2021 Opens in new window("the Bill"). This provides for the establishment of the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement as...

Marie Fleming's challenge under Irish law to the ban on assisted suicide came to an end on April 29 2013.

Last month, Ms Justice Iseult O'Malley, delivering judgment on behalf of a three-judge Supreme Court, overruled a landmark Court of Appeal judgment...

The Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Act 2021 ("the Act") was signed into law on 22 December 2021 and is currently awaiting commencement by Ministerial Order.