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The proceedings which Justin Timberlake and his wife Jessica Biel settled recently in the High Court is one of many recent high profile defamation cases.

Two recent judgments highlight the difficulties facing defendants when they apply for an order which safeguards their exposure to costs.

The number of applications to the Information Commissioner for review continues to rise also.

The Irish Data Protection Commissioner ("DPC") recently announced a plan to assess employers' compliance with the newly-commenced rules on "enforced subject access requests".

In the on-going saga that is Microsoft Corporation v. United States of America, the Irish Government ("Ireland") has made the decision to enter the fray.

The Article 29 Working Party ("WP") – a collection of 28 EU national data protection authorities – has recently published its opinion on the ‘Internet of Things’.

Looking back on the Irish real estate sector over the last 12 months, the main focus, without doubt, was housing.

Getting paid for construction work is often not straightforward. Getting paid promptly is even more challenging.

In Devils Glen Equestrian Centre Limited v Wicklow County Council [2010] IEHC 356 the High Court repeated what has been settled law for almost 25 years, namely that (a) judicial review can only be used in very limited circumstances to challenge a planning decision and (b) the courts have set a very challenging threshold for success even if judicial review is a possible remedy.

One of the most active sectors in the Irish economy both publically and privately continues to be real estate.

It is estimated that there are currently 10,442 student beds in operation in Dublin, catering for just 13.2% of the student population.

It is noteworthy that the court made a number of references to the harmful nature of the internet through its judgement.

On 13 December 2012, following a complaint by the mobile network operator Bouygues Telecom, the French competition authority, Autorité de la concurrence, fined the two leading French MNOs, Orange and SFR, a total of €183.1 million for abusing the dominant position.

A recent decision in the Irish High Court on litigation funding has wider implications beyond issues of access to justice.

On 27 July 2015, the Irish Commercial Court refused to grant an interlocutory injunction in favour of The Irish Times restraining the UK based newspaper The Times from launching a new digital Irish edition.

The Rules of the Superior Courts (Judicial Review) 2011, SI 2011/691, replace the previous Rules 18 to 28 of Order 84 of the Rules of the Superior Courts 1986.

In recent months, the UK High Court examined the circumstances in which an individual can make an access request for their personal data (a subject access request, or "SAR") under the UK Data Protection Act 1998 ("DPA").