GC Collective By Ben Daniels The GC Collective collection offers insight and comment for General Counsels (GCs) and in-house legal teams.
Governance Organisations face ever-increasing expectations from Government, regulators, customers or service users, and other stakeholders, so scrutiny and demands for transparency drive accountability. In that context, and while organisations face economic…
Information Law and Data Protection By Jade Kowalski Our market-leading Information Law team regularly publish articles and updates addressing the ever-evolving Information Law landscape.
CRO Update: Implementation of the PPSN project By Sharon McCaffrey What is the PPSN project? The Companies Registration Office (CRO) is currently working on implementing new legislation that, once in force, will require company directors who hold a personal public service number (PPSN) to include such PPSN in:
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Bill Introduced to Parliament By Neil Warwick Whilst the EU Digital Services Act Package slowly unfurls across Europe, promising to leave in its wake greater consumer protection, early insights into the content of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Bill suggest that the UK may be in…
DAC Beachcroft’s Construction Team acts in Supreme Court Appeal By Nick Hillyard On 21 December 2022, the Supreme Court granted permission to appeal the judgment in Abbey vs Simply (July 2022), in which the Court of Appeal had decided (by 2:1 majority) that a collateral warranty was a construction contract. When the Court of…
Dublin Corporate and Commercial 2022 Wrap Up By Sharon McCaffrey Welcome to the DAC Beachcroft Dublin Corporate and Commercial Wrap Up. 2022 was a busy year for corporate governance developments, with updates emerging from the High Court, the European Court of Justice and the European Parliament. We have…
The Arm of Justice Lifts the Corporate Veil – Part II: A Warning for Shadow Directors By Sharon McCaffrey In part two of our update on the exceptional case of Powers -v- Greymountain Management Ltd (in liquidation) [2022] IEHC 599, we discuss the High Court’s decision to lift the corporate veil in finding two shadow directors personally liable in a…
Access to RBO suspended By Sharon McCaffrey In a recent landmark judgement in Joined Cases C-37/20 (Luxembourg Business Registers) and C-601/20 (Sovim), the European Court of Justice (the “ ECJ ”) has ruled that certain provisions in the anti-money-laundering directive (Directive (EU)…
The SIAC after 30 years: Arbitrating in the Switzerland of Asia By Clarissa Coleman In 2021, the Singapore International Arbitration Centre was ranked as the most preferred arbitral institution in the Asia-Pacific and second worldwide. This is no mean feat given that there has been stiff competition among the major arbitration…
Commercial Hub Practice Direction At the start of this year a new Practice Direction (PD) was issued in the Queen’s Bench Division Commercial Hub. This came into effect on 1 st February 2022 and applies to all commercial actions. Failure to comply fully with the Practice Direction…
Consumer Rights Bill 2022: Enhanced Consumer Protection – Advanced Trader Compliance By Sharon McCaffrey The Consumer Rights Bill 2022 (the “ Bill ”) was initiated in Dáil Éireann on the 22 April 2022, and is well on its way to entering the business-to-consumer fray. The Bill proposes an upheaval in the Irish consumer protection legal landscape, and…
“Single-minded loyalty”: High Court examines Bitcoin developers’ duties to restore lost private keys By Tim Ryan Background In Tulip Trading Ltd v Bitcoin Association for Bitcoin SV (BSV) and others [2022] EWHC 667 (Ch) the High Court revisited the scope of common law and other duties in the context of digital asset networks. The case concerned a claim…
