News & Insights

• High Court Decision in Promontoria (Oyster) DAC v Fox [2022] poses questions for lenders and the extent that registered liens affect Land Registry Property

  • PostedMarch 31, 2022
  

  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...

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• Report of the Review of the Defamation Act 2009

  • PostedMarch 15, 2022
  

  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...

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• Continuing increases in residential house prices in 2022

  • PostedMarch 14, 2022
  

  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...

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• Healthcare law updates in 2021

  • PostedFebruary 14, 2022
  

  Over the last year, we have seen many changes in the world of healthcare law, not least the many updates related to the Covid-19 pandemic. But aside from pandemic-related changes,...

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• HSE Report on long waiting lists at CAMHS across the country

  • PostedFebruary 4, 2022
  

  According to figures released by the HSE, in the first 11 months of 2021, 21,317 referrals were made to the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), of which only...

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• High Court rules that FBD Insurance must cover costs to publicans of early closures and closed off areas

  • PostedFebruary 4, 2022
  

  A recent High Court decision by Justice Denis McDonald, ordered FBD Insurance plc (“FBD”) to indemnify publicans for losses suffered as a result of business interruptions caused by early closure...

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