Legal Briefs: Your Startup Glossary
Máire Cunningham, partner in the corporate & commercial team, looked at the key technical terms used by investors and advisors that start up companies need to know, on the Start Up Commissioner’s ...
Interlocutory injunctions and the risk of injustice
Introduction Since the well-know decision in Campus Oil Ltd v Minister for Industry and Energy (No.2), the superior courts have analysed and refined the appropriate test to be applied when determinin...
Briefing note: Companies Act 2014 - all you need to know
The new Companies Act 2014 (Act) commenced on 1 June 2015. While company law will remain substantially the same, there are some significant changes which will affect every Irish company including the ...
New merger regime for private limited companies under the Companies Act 2014
The Companies Act 2014 (the Act) will have significant implications for corporate restructurings and reorganisations. This includes the provision of a new statutory regime for the merger of two Irish ...
Companies Act 2014: Audit exemption and directors' reports
The Companies Act 2014 (the Act) introduces some important changes to Irish company law, including in relation to availing of an audit exemption and, separately, to directors' reports. Audit exempti...
The Companies Act 2014 – first steps
From commencement of the Companies Act 2014 (the Act) on 1 June 2015, most existing private limited companies are obliged to change their legal form. Unless they are credit institutions, insurance c...
Beauchamps announced as Official Legal Partner of Leinster Rugby
DUBLIN: Leinster Rugby & Beauchamps announced today (18 December 2014) that Beauchamps has been named Official Legal Partner of Leinster Rugby, as part of a three year agreement to further strengt...
A Tort of reckless lending?
It has been argued recently in the High Court that a loan is not repayable if the financial institution which advanced the money did so recklessly. This article examines the response by the High Cour...
Time Limits and the Appointment of Receivers - An Analysis of Recent Authorities
Introduction Time limits arise in many contexts in legal practice. A statute may allow a specific period for something to be done. A contract may require a particular act by a given time. Practitione...
Lis Pendens—An Analysis
Introduction As practitioners will be aware, it is relatively simple for a plaintiff to register a lis pendens on the register maintained in the High Court. Upon lodging a short form, which must be a...
Commercial Law Practitioner - Commercial Relationships and the Criminal Law—an Analysis of Private Criminal Prosecutions
Introduction On July 28, 2013, the Sunday Independent featured an article under the headline “Court clears way for people to sue individual bankers”. It began by stating that: “A High Court judge ha...
Non Est Factum - when the contract I signed "is not my deed"
In general, someone who signs a document assents to its contents and will be bound by his or her signature. This article looks at a plea which is made with increasing regularity by those seeking to av...
Update on the law relating to set-off
When considering the obligations within the banker/client relationship, the rules relating to set-off are more extensive that is generally understood. They derive from various sources, the least trans...
Health and safety for retail stores
The Health and Safety Authority (“HSA”) estimates that approximately 33,000 people each year are injured at work. While traditionally the retail industry has not been viewed as high risk in this regar...
False advertising: Beware of leading consumers up the garden path
Before you put up a sign advertising “50% off” in your shop window, pause for thought. Advertising about goods or services that is deceptive or misleading is prohibited under the Consumer Protection A...