Blogs
Gillian Keating: Healthcare transformation – the human factor
Ronan Daly Jermyn partner Gillian Keating interrogates the real drivers of change in healthcare and explores what should be key priorities for the HSE and the government.
Published 26 August 2020
Benjamin Bestgen: Moral companies?
Benjamin Bestgen this week considers the moral obligations of companies. See his last jurisprudential primer here.
Published 26 August 2020
Stuart Nevin: Restrictive covenants – a company may reasonably withhold consent on aesthetic grounds
Stuart Nevin writes about a recent Court of Appeal decision on restrictive covenants, and the validity of an objection to proposed land developments based on aesthetic grounds.
Published 25 August 2020
Explained: The New Zealand High Court's lockdown judgment
Scottish advocate Fergus Whyte, who formerly practised at the New Zealand bar, examines a recent High Court decision on the lawfulness of the country's COVID-19 lockdown measures, which saw the Bill of Rights Act 1688 invoked.
Published 25 August 2020
Blog: A new statutory exception to the rule against hearsay
Matheson partners Julie Murphy-O’Connor, Tony O’Grady, Brendan Colgan, Grainne Dever and Mairéad Ní Ghabháin explore recent changes to the law on hearsay evidence.
Published 24 August 2020
Les Allamby: Responding to COVID-19 in a post-conflict society
Les Allamby, chief commissioner for the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, considers how Northern Ireland is dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published 20 August 2020
Margaret Cordial: Key reforms of civil and regulatory law
Margaret Cordial, litigation solicitor at Smithwick Solicitors, examines recent significant reforms to the Irish legal system.
Published 19 August 2020
Benjamin Bestgen: Animal rights
Benjamin Bestgen discusses the rights of animals in his latest jurisprudential primer. See last week's here.
Published 19 August 2020
Gareth Planck: The future of the office – the same old routine or the beginning of innovation?
Gareth Planck, partner at Eversheds Sutherland, looks at how lockdown has changed offices and working routines.
Published 18 August 2020
Professor Steve Peers: The Dublin Regulation – an overview
Professor Steve Peers of the University of Essex discusses the 'Dublin system' for asylum applications between EU states and the legal issues of the Channel crossings.
Published 17 August 2020
John M. O'Connor
Retired Dublin solicitor John M. O'Connor, former managing partner of O'Connor Solicitors, has passed away.
Published 13 August 2020
Jacci Fox: What is required for a debtor to succeed in dismissal of bankruptcy summons
Jacci Fox, head of the debt and asset recovery unit at HOMS Solicitors, examines what is required for a debtor to succeed in dismissal of bankruptcy summons.
Published 13 August 2020
Dr Thomas Muinzer: Climate case brings good news and bad
Dr Thomas Muinzer of Aberdeen Law School in Scotland comments on the Supreme Court's recent squashing of the government's climate change plan.
Published 13 August 2020
Blog: Virtual AGMs and company constitutions
Deborah Kelly and Jack Lehane from the corporate team at Eugene F Collins look at virtual AGMs and the impact of COVID-19 on company constitutions.
Published 12 August 2020
Benjamin Bestgen: Statistics and law
Benjamin Bestgen considers the pitfalls of statistics in his latest jurisprudential primer. See last week's here.
Published 12 August 2020
