The International Comparative Legal Guide to Corporate Investigations 2019 has now been published. Corporate Investigations covers common issues in corporate investigations laws and regulations

In connection with the 2020 planned assessment of the reporting and disclosure requirements under Solvency II, EIOPA is seeking input from stakeholders on areas that could be improved.

Lex Mundi has recently made available a new Global Attorney-Client Privilege (ACP) Guide.

The Irish courts have generally acknowledged the commercial sensitivity attaching to contractual documents entered into as part of a loan sale transaction.

A recent practice direction issued by the Chief Justice of Ireland and recent judgments of Mr Justice Hogan indicate a shift by the Irish Courts towards a more general right of public access to court documents.

The review of key documents is an integral step in the discovery and preparatory stages of litigation.

Historically, there has been some confusion on the exact interpretation of the disclosure rules.

The Supreme Court recently quashed certain findings of the Ansbacher Inspector’s Report, ruling that the findings in question were made in excess of the jurisdiction which had been granted to the inspectors appointed to investigate and report on illegal offshore accounts.

A recent Court of Appeal finding in the UK has provided both Corporate Counsel and external lawyers

Can you get discovery in judicial review proceedings? Yes you can, as the Public Accounts Committee found out when the High Court granted discovery against it...

The UK Supreme Court has found that a public body, HM Revenue & Customs ("HMRC"), breached its duty of confidentiality to a taxpayer after a senior official disclosed confidential information to journalists...

The recent High Court judgment in Harrington v Cork City Council and Cork County Council clarified a party's disclosure obligations where one party does not hold any expert reports.

Welcome to our November 2023 edition of Legal News where we continue to provide you with a selection of our recent publications, and present our Legal News Podcast...

The following three recent court rulings are of significant relevance to the conduct of competition law and other regulatory investigations under Ireland's criminal prosecution enforcement regime:

In Rhatigan v Eagle Star Life Assurance Company, the High Court found that Eagle Star was not required to provide discovery of documents prepared in anticipation of repudiation of a life insurance policy as these documents were protected by litigation privilege.

In reaching its decision on the State's request, the Court acknowledged that the disclosure of the Funding Agreement could provide the State with an unfair and disproportionate litigation advantage.

New Court Rules relating to the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court were introduced on 1 August 2018 which allow the media access to documents on court files where access...

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.

This case related to a claim by ACC Bank plc for a summary judgment against the first named Defendant on foot of a personal guarantee of €250,000 in respect of a loan facility to a company of €3.9m.

In this update, Kevin Harnett and Karole Cuddihy examine the recent decision of the Irish Court of Appeal in Promontoria (Aran) Ltd v Sheehy [2020] IECA 104.