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 Rhiannon Webster Our market-leading Information Law team regularly publish articles and updates addressing the ever-evolving Information Law landscape.
Japan Desk / ジャパン デスクとは By Andrew Clare ジャパン デスク ジャパン デスクでは、グローバルに事業や商取引を展開する日系企業の皆様に特化してご相談を承っています。ご相談は日本語の堪能なイギリス人弁護士が承ります。御社のイギリスでの事業を取り巻く法規について実務的なアドバイスを提供いたします。世界に広がる当事務所のネットワークを通じて、各国のトップ クラスの弁護士だけでなく、経済とビジネスの中心地で活躍する現地の法務環境に詳しい専門家からのサポートも提供いたします。 …
Vedanta v Lungowe – issues in cross-border compliance By Julian Bubb Humfryes A recent Supreme Court judgment has dramatically raised the potential exposure of London-listed corporates to issues in their overseas subsidiaries and joint ventures.
Chain reaction By Tim Ryan We’ve all heard of Blockchain. But what is it, how does it work, and why does it matter? Tim Ryan, partner and head of technology at DAC Beachcroft, provides a beginner’s guide.
Government approves establishment of new Gambling Regulator By Gary Rice Sports betting in Ireland is currently regulated by the Betting Act 1931. While this Act was amended in 2015 to provide for a limited licensing regime for bookmakers and betting exchanges, there is no regulation of the industry in any real sense.…
How Artificial Intelligence will change your working life By Tim Ryan On Tuesday 12 March, we brought together Rob McCargow, Director of AI at PwC, A-B, Sophia, Director of Legal & Regulatory at The Law Society, and DACB's Head of Technology Law Tim Ryan and Head of Information Law Rhiannon Webster for a…
Becoming a NED: Webinar Giles Peel the Head of our Governance Advisory Practice talks us through whats involved in becoming a NED.
Are GDPR Class Actions on the Horizon? An Irish Perspective By Lisa Broderick Currently, Irish law makes no provision for "class" or collective actions. Generally speaking, where class actions are available (for example the United States) a class action lawsuit involves a scenario whereby a group of plaintiffs are…
Conditional Appearance – The clue is not in the name By Lisa Broderick Every practitioner is aware of the importance of entering an Appearance within the appropriate time frame, in order to ensure judgment in default of appearance is not entered against your client. What has been less clear are the circumstances in…
Law Reform Commission seeks views on changes to defamation laws for online reporting of court proceedings By Lisa Broderick The Law Reform Commission's recently published Issues Paper, Privilege for Reports of Court Proceedings under the Defamation Act 2009, is intended to invite debate around the extent to which online reporting and social media commentary on court…
Supreme Court upholds decision to awards costs of proceedings against non-party By Lisa Broderick In a landmark ruling on litigation costs, the Supreme Court confirmed in Moorview Developments Limited and Others v First Active plc and Others that Irish courts enjoy a discretionary jurisdiction to impose liability for costs on individuals who are…
Commercial Litigation Update - October 2018 By Lisa Broderick Welcome to the October issue of the DAC Beachcroft Dublin Commercial Litigation e-zine. We have prepared guidance on recent developments and gathered some helpful updates which we hope will be of interest to practitioners.
