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febrero 2022

The Irish Planning System: Spotlight on The Office of the Planning Regulator

The Irish Planning System: Spotlight on The Office of the Planning Regulator

What is it? Arising from recommendations made by the Mahon Tribunal (formally the Tribunal of Inquiry into Certain Planning Matters and Payments), the ...

Inordinate delay by Plaintiff results in dismissal of proceedings

Inordinate delay by Plaintiff results in dismissal of proceedings

In the recent High Court decision in Cabot Financial (Ireland) Limited v Heffernan & Ors , the Second Named Defendant, Mr Heffernan Snr, successfu ...

Court of Appeal upholds Order for Security of Two-Thirds of Costs

Court of Appeal upholds Order for Security of Two-Thirds of Costs

Demeray Limited v. O'Grady [2022] IECA 12 The Court of Appeal recently dismissed an appeal against a High Court order directing that the Plaintiff (an ...

Timing is everything – when is the appropriate time to bring a motion to strike out?

Timing is everything – when is the appropriate time to bring a motion to strike out?

The recent High Court decision in Somers –v- Kennedy & Ors sheds some light on how the Courts may approach applications by Defendants to dismiss p ...

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The Austrian Data Protection Authority (DSB) has recently rendered a ruling that is remarkable not only because of its likely practical implications, ...

High Court Not The Appropriate Forum for Low-Value Data Protection Claims

High Court Not The Appropriate Forum for Low-Value Data Protection Claims

In the recent decision of William Stadler v Currys Group Ltd [2022] EWHC 160 (QB), the High Court has confirmed that it is not the appropriate forum f ...

Munich Regional Court on non-material GDPR damage (case no 31 O 16606/20)

Munich Regional Court on non-material GDPR damage (case no 31 O 16606/20)

Introduction In Germany, the GDPR has so far been associated primarily with the risk that data protection authorities impose fines for GDPR violations ...

P4x Retaliatory Hack of North Korea’s Internet

P4x Retaliatory Hack of North Korea’s Internet

Earlier this month, it was reported that a hacker based in the United States claimed to have disrupted North Korea’s internet, after deliberately taki ...

State-led Offensive Cyber Operations Return to the Fore

State-led Offensive Cyber Operations Return to the Fore

The shocking events taking place in Ukraine, and increased speculation regarding offensive cyber operations emanating from Russia, have driven state-l ...

Marine Cyber Risk - A Primer for Landlubbing Lawyers

Marine Cyber Risk - A Primer for Landlubbing Lawyers

After a flurry of regulatory and governance activity in 2017, market attention towards marine cyber risks had gone comparatively quiet until 2021 when ...