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The Long Road to non-ratification of the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)
The EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (“CETA”) was...
Truly independent guidance from expert witnesses
[This article was originally published in Law Ireland in March 2019] It may normally be assumed that a professional will aim to comply with the...
False and misleading evidence in personal injuries claims
[This article was originally published in Law Ireland in February 2019] Recent news stories suggest that there has been an increase in fraudulent...
Developments in the law relating to ‘subject to contract’ correspondence
[This article was originally published in Law Ireland in January 2019] In property negotiations, it is usual practice for the solicitors on either...
Anonymisation of personal data in written judgments
[This article was originally published in Law Ireland in December 2018] It is common in written judgments concerning assessment of damages in...
Citation of ‘free access’ case law – an Australian perspective
[This article, by Jenny Paglia, was originally published in Law Ireland in December 2018] In Australian courts there is a longstanding convention...
Popular Judgments
Credit union is debarred from challenging exclusion of a debt from a personal insolvency arrangement
Court of Appeal allows appeal of High Court ruling that a debt be excluded...
Mortgagors restrained from interfering with entitlement to possession of property
High Court grants an injunction restraining two defendant mortgagors from...
Secured creditor entitled to full interest accrued under well charging order
High Court, in a case where a well-charging order was granted in November 1999...
Application to challenge detentions under search warrants issued by peace commissioners refused due to lack of specific detainees
The High Court refused an application brought by a member of the public seeking an inquiry into the lawfulness of any and all detentions arising from evidence obtained under search warrants issued by peace commissioners. The applicant, acting on behalf of an unspecified group of detainees, argued that such warrants were unconstitutional and that...
Damages awarded for child sexual abuse with exemplary damages granted for prolonged psychological harm
The High Court awarded the plaintiff €115,000 in damages, comprising general, future, and exemplary damages, following an uncontested claim arising from sexual abuse suffered by the plaintiff as a child at the hands of the defendant between March and September 1998. The court found that the abuse, which occurred on approximately 10 to 15...
Popular Articles
Women and the Law: Historic discrimination in Ireland
Gender equality in the workplace, in the family and in society more generally remains a much discussed and debated topic in Ireland, especially...
Law Students Lament: A Slow Decline of Easily Memorised Rules of Thumb?
Depending on who you ask, a “rule of thumb” is either a useful way of remembering an otherwise wearisome idea, or a phrase which harks back to an...
You can’t handle the truth: The Perjury Act of 2021
On the 28th of July 2021, the Criminal Justice (Perjury and Related Offences) Act 2021 came into effect, creating a statutory offence of perjury....
Gendered language and the law – Farewell sirs!
(First published in Decisis Law Ireland in October 2020) In their most recent effort to make the profession more inclusive, the Law Society have...