News & Insights

• CervicalCheck Tribunal will be in place by March 2020

  • PostedFebruary 11, 2020
  

  On 29th January 2020, the Department of Health circulated an update on progress to date in respect of the arrangements for the CervicalCheck Tribunal. The CervicalCheck Tribunal is being established...

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• Employers need to tailor restrictive covenants to ensure their enforceability

  • PostedJanuary 22, 2020
  

  In employment terms, a restrictive covenant inhibits a departing employee from working for a competitor for an agreed period after leaving his or her job. They’re nothing new and fairly...

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• WRC ruling in case against RTE signals end for compulsory retirement age

  • PostedJanuary 12, 2020
  

  The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has ordered RTÉ to pay former television producer €100,000 in compensation after she was forced to retire at age 65. The producer, Anne Roper, filed...

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• Why you should make a Will

  • PostedJanuary 9, 2020
  

  There is a common misconception that there is little or no merit in making a Will and it is easier to leave it to the laws of intestacy to decide...

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• Removal of juries from defamation cases would ease the ‘chilling effect’

  • PostedDecember 2, 2019
  

  Self-help guru Tony Robbins is suing Buzzfeed for defamation. And he’s doing it in the Irish courts. This may seem a little out of the ordinary, but Robbins is not...

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• Allergan BIOCELL Breast Implants and BIA-ALCL

  • PostedNovember 20, 2019
  

  In a statement released by the HSE on October 9th, 2019, 8000 women in Ireland who received Allergan BIOCELL breast implants have been or will be written to regarding the...

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