News & Insights

• Parents’ Leave and Benefit Act – additional entitlements from November 2019

  • PostedNovember 14, 2019
  

  On November 1st, new legislation was introduced under the Parent’s Leave and Benefit Act 2019. According to the act, new working parents can now claim two weeks of paid leave...

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• Intelligent investing

  • PostedNovember 4, 2019
  

  In October 2009, a Finnish software engineer and one of Bitcoin’s earliest developers sold 5,050 of bitcoin to New Liberty Standard for just $5. Ten years later those same bitcoins...

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• The proposed auto-enrolment pension scheme – what can we learn from the UK?

  • PostedNovember 1, 2019
  

  Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Regina Doherty, announced at the end of October that the Government has approved the creation of a pension scheme which will see all...

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• Mandatory disclosure of patient information and the proposed Patient Safety Bill

  • PostedOctober 25, 2019
  

  On Tuesday 22nd October, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar apologised “for the humiliation, the disrespect and deceit” suffered by the women and families affected by the failures of the CervicalCheck scheme. He...

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• Avril Scally, Head of Clinical Negligence, talks pitfalls for plaintiffs at King’s Inn

  • PostedOctober 23, 2019
  

  Avril Scally, Partner and Head of Clinical Negligence, addressed practitioners and professionals taking part in the Advanced Diploma in Medical Law course at the Honourable Society of King’s Inns on...

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• Giving it all away… employee share schemes: what companies need to consider.

  • PostedOctober 16, 2019
  

  Many companies use employee incentive share schemes to attract and add value to employees’ remuneration packages. The end result of such schemes is that employees become shareholders in the employer...

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