The introduction of the new Personal Injury Guidelines has seen the awards for personal injury claims fall significantly since their introduction last year. The guidelines have been a welcome development...

In April 2021, a report published by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, ‘Death Investigation, Coroners’ Inquests and the Rights of the Bereaved’ accused the coroner’s court system of creating...

Earlier this year, the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment announced the extension of the temporary provisions of the Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Covid-19) Act 2020 (the “Act”) until 31 December...

It was previously common practice to create an equitable mortgage over a property by deposit of the land certificate with the lender. This was a common informal method of creating...

The Department of Justice, under Minister for Justice Helen McEntee, recently completed its Report of the Review of the Defamation Act 2009 and brought a lengthy review of the defamation...

Residential house prices rose 14.4% nationally in the year to December 2021, with house prices outside Dublin increasing by 15.4% and in the capital by 13.1%. This marked an acceleration...