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Scottish Legal Heritage: A scandalous divorce recalled
Our sister publication, Scottish Legal News, recalls a scandalous divorce case from just across the water.
Published 3 May 2019
Dorit McCann: Competition watchdog taking harder stance on gun-jumping in Ireland
Dorit McCann, partner and head of EU, competition and procurement at Beauchamps, examines the Irish authorities' approach to gun-jumping.
Published 1 May 2019
David Maugham and Eoghan O'Tuama: The Prospectus Regulation – what's coming
William Fry lawyers David Maughan, partner and head of debt capital markets, and Eoghan O'Tuama, head of listings, consider the forthcoming overhaul of the EU prospectus regime.
Published 1 May 2019
Seán Barton: Last year remained busy for the Commercial Court
Partner Seán Barton and trainee solicitor Kevin Ryan at McCann FitzGerald reflect on a busy year for Ireland's Commercial Court.
Published 30 April 2019
Julie Sadlier: Mortgages ruling offers hope for those at risk of repossession
Julie Sadlier, solicitor at Kieran Mulcahy Solicitors in Limerick, writes on a recent ruling with potential significance for mortgage cases.
Published 29 April 2019
Irish Legal Heritage: Norris v Ireland
On 22 April 1983, Senator David Norris lost an appeal to the Supreme Court. He sought a declaration that that sections 61 and 62 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861, and section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885, were inconsistent with the Constitution.
Published 26 April 2019
Roisin Harper: Revised personal injury damages of keen interest to insurers
Roisin Harper, associate at McKinty and Wright Solicitors, current NI regional representative for the Forum of Insurance Lawyers (FOIL) and past NI representative to Tomorrow’s FOIL, writes on the latest update to personal injury damages guidelines.
Published 18 April 2019
Richard Grogan: Illegal contracts – can unpaid wages be recovered?
Employment law solicitor Richard Grogan of Richard Grogan & Associates writes on a case brought by an employee with an illegal contract.
Published 16 April 2019
Irish Legal Heritage: Alice Milligan – 'she loved no other place but Ireland'
Alice Milligan was born in a village just outside Omagh in September 1866, one of thirteen children. Her parents were Methodists of modest means, and whose success in the Irish linen trade brought the family to Belfast in 1879. In Belfast, Alice was educated at Methodist College along with her surviving brothers and sisters, where she “demonstrated an amazing and versatile range of abilities by winning scholarships in mathematics, science, scripture, natural philosophy and music”, and where she “first began to publish poetry in the school magazine” (Catherine Morris, Alice Milligan and the Irish Cultural Revival (Four Courts Press 2012), 25).
Published 12 April 2019
Irish Legal Heritage: Major William Redmond
On 7 June 1917, William Hoey Kearney Redmond was killed in the attack on the Messines Ridge during the First World War, serving as a major in the Royal Irish Regiment of the British Army.
Published 5 April 2019
Darryl Broderick: Your eggs or mine – the law on passing off
Partner Darryl Broderick and trainee solicitor James Leahy at Ronan Daly Jermyn (RDJ) examine a new Court of Appeal ruling restating the law on passing off.
Published 4 April 2019
Colum Kenny: We need to reboot contract law for the web
Colum Kenny, professor emeritus of communications at Dublin City University (DCU) and a qualified barrister, writes on the legal challenges posed by online privacy.
Published 3 April 2019
Matthew Howse: The winds of change for commercial litigation in Northern Ireland
Matthew Howse, partner in dispute resolution and litigation at Eversheds Sutherland in Belfast, writes on the latest commercial litigation developments in Northern Ireland.
Published 2 April 2019
Irish Legal Heritage: Ireland’s Alcatraz
After several decades as a military fort, and a much earlier history of being a monastic settlement, Spike Island was converted into a prison in 1847.
Published 29 March 2019
Richard Grogan: Adjudication Officer right to admit award is beyond their competence
Employment law solicitor Richard Grogan of Richard Grogan & Associates writes on the competence of the Adjudication Officer to determine certain sums.
Published 27 March 2019
