The Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation ("the Department") has proposed an amendment to the Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000 ("the Copyright Act"). This comes in the wake of Mr. Justice Charleton’s call in EMI–v- UPC to address the issue of copyright infringement via the internet.

A whistleblower is a person who raises a concern about wrongdoing in an organisation. The misconduct can be a violation of the law or internal rules/ regulations or in some cases, for example where there is an occurrence of fraud or corruption, a direct threat to public interest.

All teachers, and indeed principals, deputy principals and school boards want to deliver a professional service to all of their students.

Legal measures are now in place for corporate investment funds to re-domicile to Ireland. This paper considers some of the more practical questions facing asset managers considering re-domiciling funds to Ireland under the new regime and provides a guide as to how the process shall work in practice.

On 17 December 2010, the Irish Stock Exchange (‘ISE’) published new listing rules requiring all companies with a primary listing on the Main Securities Market of the ISE to comply with a new annex to the rules focussed on corporate governance matters (the ‘ISE Annex’).

The Central Bank of Ireland is set to remove the requirement that certain administration services for Irish funds must be carried out in Ireland, but proposes to use this as an opportunity to introduce a new and extensive range of rules relating to the use of external providers to carry out fund administration activities.

Pension schemes have been more exposed to political scrutiny in the past couple of years than perhaps the preceding couple of decades.

The European Union has finally succeeded in introducing a directive to establish a harmonised pan-EU framework for the regulation and supervision of the activities of alternative investment fund managers ("AIFM").

The purpose of this article is to explain the principles surrounding takeover offers conducted under the jurisdiction of the Irish Takeover Panel.

The purpose of this article is to explain the obligations imposed on directors and other persons to disclose certain interests or rights in shares and debentures of companies incorporated in Ireland, whether to the company itself, the Takeover Panel or the Irish Stock Exchange.

Media mergers in Ireland are subject to the normal clearance provisions under the Irish Competition Acts 2002 to 2010 save that all media mergers must be formally notified to the Competition Authority, regardless of turnover thresholds.

The Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (the "AIFMD" or the "Directive") was finally approved by the European Commission and the European Parliament on 11

In these difficult economic times, the duties and liabilities of the promoters of financial products are coming under much tighter scrutiny.

What legislation governs M&A activity in Ireland