The General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") comes into force on 25 May 2018, and many businesses are beginning to prepare for its introduction.

Finance Act 2011 and related social insurance changes in Ireland made significant changes to the taxation of share incentives.

Pension providers and employers will, no doubt, be watching reports on the payment of the Local Property Tax with interest.

The Irish Aviation Authority (Nationality and Registration of Aircraft) Order, 2015 (S.I. 107/2015) will come into operation on 1st June 2015.

In positive news for financiers and lenders, the Irish Government has signed an order which gives immediate effect to the "Alternative A" insolvency provisions of the Cape Town Convention.

We reported on the Irish Supreme Court’s ruling in DPP v Hegarty that an individual employee can be tried for a breach of Irish competition law even if his employer has not been convicted of an offence.

The attention of FOI Officers is drawn to the European Communities (Access to Information on the Environment)(Amendment) Regulations 2011, which were published just before Christmas, so you may have missed them in the Christmas rush!

On 15 May 2013, the regulator of the funds industry in Ireland, the Central Bank of Ireland, announced that it is now accepting applications under the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive.

The Minister for Justice recently announced the Government’s intention to hold a referendum in September on the proposal to create a Court of Appeal in Ireland

Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohoe signed the European Union (Payment Services) Regulations 2018 into law today. The 2018 Regulations transpose the revised Payment Services Directive ...

Following on from a previous update on the European Union (Anti-Money Laundering: Beneficial Ownership of Corporate Entities) Regulations 2016, the Department of Finance has confirmed...

On 8 March 2016, the Workplace Relations Commission ("WRC") awarded €9,229 to a Spanish au pair on the grounds that her employer had breached aspects of the National Minimum Wage Act 2000...

The Protected Disclosures Act 2014 introduces significant measures to ensure that workers are not penalised for making a "protected disclosure", often referred to as "whistleblowing".

The Labour Court has issued its first recommendation under new legislation to provide an improved framework for workers seeking to enhance their terms and conditions of employment...

ESMA has now issued a Questions and Answers paper aimed at competent authorities, to ensure the consistent application of EMIR, and to investors in a bid to provide clarity on the requirements under EMIR.

The introduction of UCITS III paved the way for UCITS to pursue alternative type investment strategies such as long/short, market neutral, CTA and managed futures funds and relative value strategies to name but a few.

Irish law obliges drivers to have motor insurance to cover accidents occurring in a public place.

Justice Minister Alan Shatter recently implemented changes to the monetary jurisdiction of the Courts.

The Gathering is the largest ever tourism campaign to be run by the State.

Shortly after the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force in May 2018, California passed its own sweeping privacy legislation, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA).