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The Government has been busy addressing three topical matters involving the sale of alcohol in Ireland.

Many consumers are pursuing healthier lifestyles by buying food that claims to have reduced fat, fewer calories, lower salt or increased nutrients.

The High Court has expressed concern that distressed borrowers are being duped into paying money to the anonymous promoters of schemes, which purport to protect them from enforcement by lenders but are actually 'utterly misguided and spurious'.

In December 2012, the Supreme Court overturned a High Court decision whereby decision-makers have a duty to provide reasons for their decisions.

In the substantive proceedings, the High Court dismissed the applicants’ claim and refused to quash decisions made by the National Asset Management Agency, on 8 December, 2011 and 25 January, 2012.

Since 1968, the Brussels Convention, later the 2001 Brussels I Regulation, has played an important role in determining jurisdiction and how judgments are recognised and enforced...

A US appeals court recently handed down a ground-breaking privacy decision, bringing the three-year Microsoft warrant saga to an apparent end.

As business and society become ever more data-rich, data minimisation techniques equally become increasingly important.

On 28 February 2019, Ireland's data protection supervisory authority, the Data Protection Commission (DPC), published its first annual report under GDPR (Report).

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has published a statement regarding its investigation into certain aspects of the Public Services Card (PSC) scheme run by the Department of Employment Affairs and Social...

From 11 December 2017, the Children First Act 2015 introduces new statutory obligations for professionals and organisations who provide a service to children and families.

In October 2015 the EU's highest court (the CJEU) found the longstanding EU-US data transfer framework – Safe Harbor – to be invalid.

We believe that FinTech is an exciting industry sector with a wealth of opportunity.

The Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis (the "Banking Inquiry") was established in November 2014 as the first inquiry of its kind under new parliamentary inquiry legislation.

The Data Protection Commissioner ("DPC") recently published guidance on the use of data anonymisation and pseudonymisation techniques

Our last post looked at 10 personal data protection and privacy challenges arising from the growing ‘Internet of Things’ ("IoT") that the Article 29 Working Party ("WP") identified in its recent Opinion.

The Alternative Investment Management Association ("AIMA") continues to be proactive in responding to proposed European regulatory initiatives.