Crypto-assets will remain a highly volatile investment and means of exchange until regulation becomes a legal certainty. When that happens, it will reduce the use of crypto-assets in fraud and will ...

The Supreme Court has delivered judgment in the case of Sweeney v Minister for Justice, Ireland and the Attorney General. The case relates to a man who was questioned, but not charged, in relation to ...

The Law Society’s Conditions of Sale 2019 for conveyancers came into effect on 1 January 2019. They provide that title is now investigated before the contract is entered into. The conditions radically ...

It is estimated that as many as 25,000 people currently live in some kind of residential care. It is hoped that their cases will be reviewed by the newly created Decision Support Service, once the ...

A recent judgment represents one of the most substantial developments in the law of interlocutory injunctions in Ireland since Campus Oil over 35 years ago. The July 2019 judgment of O’Donnell J in ...

The ruling in Case C-149/17 Bastei Lübbe v Michael Strotzer is the most recent addition to a series of CJEU judgments that address the balancing of fundamental rights in the context of the enforcement ...

A famous Indian yoga teacher was once asked by a student how he might give up smoking. The reply came as something of a shock: “Don’t stop smoking – very bad for your health – the effort to stop ...

The new Family Law Act changes more than just the minimum living-apart period. The Family Law Act 2019 was enacted on 25 October 2019 and is expected to be commenced very shortly. The act follows on ...