Ireland By Lisa Broderick DAC Beachcroft Dublin provides legal advice in specialist insurance, injury risk, healthcare and life sciences, corporate and commercial, EU and competition, cyber and data, dispute resolution, employment, regulatory and professional discipline. …
New Personal Injuries Guidelines in Republic of Ireland By James Colville New Judicial Guidelines for personal injuries awards in the Republic of Ireland will apply from 24 th April. The Guidelines will dramatically reduce the value of General Damages with the upshot that only the most serious type of injury will…
Ireland’s Public Healthcare Body Suffers Major Ransomware Attack By Charlotte Burke On 13 May 2021, Ireland’s public healthcare service, the Health Service Executive (“HSE”) suffered a major ransomware attack, described by the State broadcaster RTÉ as “the most serious ever attack on the State’s critical infrastructure”. Two days…
COVID-19: Business Briefing - Ireland By Sharon McCaffrey This briefing note sets out some of our most frequently asked questions around COVID-19. The answers have been kept to a very brief overview, so please use the contact details provided at the end of this document, or approach any of your usual DAC…
Ireland’s first national research ethics committees established By Niamh McKeever The Minister for Health has appointed the membership of Ireland’s first National Research Ethics Committees (NRECs) in the areas of Clinical Trials of Investigational Medicinal Products (NREC-CT) and Clinical Investigations of Medical Devices…
Ireland: the Consumer Insurance Contracts Act 2019 The long awaited Consumer Insurance Contracts Act was signed into law on 26 December 2019. The Act has yet to be enacted, but that is expected to happen in the first six months of 2020.
Leave granted to Judicially Review the decision not to introduce an interim Personal Injury Discount Rate in Northern Ireland By Louise Butler On 16 th December 2020, Mr Justice McAlinden granted an applicant leave to Judicially Review the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) decision not to introduce an Interim Personal Injury Discount Rate (PIDR). On the 22 nd October, the DOJ announced that…
DOJ to scrap plans for -1.75% personal injury discount rate in Northern Ireland By Louise Butler The DOJ confirms it intends to scrap the planned move towards a -1.75% personal injury discount rate in Northern Ireland and press ahead with a Bill for reforming the framework for setting the rate instead.
COVID-19: The Lord Chief Justice Issues Updated Guidance for all Courts in Northern Ireland By Sean McGahan The Lord Chief Justice has now issued updated guidance for all courts in Northern Ireland. This article outlines the most important aspects of the guidance.
COVID-19 Response: Update on sick pay for employees and self-employed in Ireland By Barry Reynolds On Monday 9 March the government announced that the next phase of Ireland’s Covid-19 response includes enhanced illness benefit. This seeks to limit and slow the spread of Covid-19 and arises from a €2.4 billion package with supports for employees…
-1.75% Discount Rate Proposed by Department of Justice for Northern Ireland By Sean McGahan The Department of Justice, Civil Justice Policy Division, has today issued a letter to stakeholders confirming the Minister of Justice has asked officials to undertake a statutory consultation with GAD (the Government Actuary’s Department) and the…
Northern Ireland Personal Injury Discount Rate (PIDR) Consulation By Louise Butler DAC Beachcroft, in addition to working alongside the ABI, FOIL and LSNI on their various responses, is preparing its own response to the Department of Justice’s Consultation paper on the setting of the Personal Injury discount rate in Northern…
COVID-19: The Most Recent Court Directions in Northern Ireland By Sean McGahan The presiding members of the judiciary met with the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland on 18 th March 2020. Presently, a full package of directions to include the regional Courts, province wide, is being prepared. A link to these directions…
Workplace vaccinations and data protection in Ireland By Aidan Healy The Irish Government vaccination programme is now well under way. As a result of supply limits and in line with the government’s COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation Strategy, it will still be some time before the vaccine will be available to the majority of…
Northern Ireland Personal Injury Discount Rate Update By Louise Butler -1.75% Personal Injury Discount Rate has been proposed by the Department of Justice for Northern Ireland.