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The Courts Service Annual Report 2017 was published by the Courts Service on 17 July 2018 and shows a significant increase in the number of defamation claims in the Courts.

The High Court recently deemed that the question of determining which governing law applies to a dispute should not be dealt with as a separate and distinct matter in isolation from a ruling on the relevant facts.

This article addresses the legal methods and means of valuation of personal injury claims with a view to informing you about the legal processes involved and the processes involved.

In AIB PLC v Dorey [2022] IEHC 317 the plaintiff issued a summary summons on foot of three loans made to the defendant in 2008. It came before the High Court on foot of an application for judgment in default of appearance.

Borrowers in arrears are resorting to increasingly creative arguments as to why they do not have to repay their loans and why lenders have no right to enforce.

In May 2016, a six-year legal tussle between Google and Oracle entered its final phase when the US District Court for Northern California ruled that Google's use of 37 Oracle Java APIs...

This article will consider two significant recent judgments of the Irish Courts on the topic of concurrent liability - Defender Limited v HSBC France [2020] IESC 37 ("Defender") ...

A recent judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in the joined cases of YouTube (C-628/18) and Cyando (C-683/19) will be welcomed by internet service providers (ISPs) and...

On 24 February last, the Supreme Court dismissed the appeal brought by Mary Stokes against CBS High School Clonmel ("the School").

On 28 March 2018, the Irish Court of Appeal gave judgment on an appeal against the High Court's refusal to order discovery of parts of a successful tender in a public procurement process ...

This is the third in our series of Good Decision-Making Guides for Public Bodies. These Guides highlight what is best practice in decision-making and offer simple and practical tips to reduce the risk of challenge to your decisions.

Following the acquisition of a loan portfolio from Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Limited, Mars Capital Ireland Limited sought an order substituting it as plaintiff in lieu of IBRC, in the proceedings against the defendants.

Taking into account recommendations made in the statutory Report of the Review of the Defamation Act 2009 (Statutory Review), the General Scheme proposes significant amendments...

We have previously written about the Norwich Pharmacal Order (NPO), which compels a party to disclose information to a plaintiff that would...

The newspaper sought to have the latter claims (relating to the statements made to Mr. O'Brien) struck out as an abuse of process based on their similarity to the claims relating to the newspaper articles.

In Pamela Brennan v BOM Scoil Mhuire agus Iosaf Junior School, the WRC awarded Ms Brennan €93,498 as compensation for gender discrimination

The recent decision of the Court of Appeal in Promontoria (GEM) DAC v Ciaran Redmond, Michael O'Neill, Clody Norton and Peter Crean T/A "The NORC Partnership"