Rate of Interest on Judgment Debts Reduced
The rate of interest on judgment debts has been reduced from 8% to 2%, with effect from 1 January 2017, pursuant to the Courts Act 1981 (Interest on Judgment Debts) ...
Solicitor’s Citizens Information Service Work Recognised
We are delighted that Mairéad Doyle, Associate Solicitor, in our Litigation Department was recognised with a special presentation for her work for the Free Legal Advice Clinic (FLAC) provided by ...
Ambiguous Wills and Evidence
Recent case law re-iterates the requirements for the admissibility of extrinsic evidence to determine the intention of the deceased where there is ambiguity in a will. Background The making of ...
Separability of Arbitration Clauses in Insurance Contracts in Ireland
Do such clauses survive if the contract is rendered void ab initio? The issue of whether an arbitration clause in an insurance contract survives notwithstanding the fact that the contract ...
Assisted Decision Making
The much-debated Assisted Decision Making (Capacity) Act 2015 (the “Act”) was enacted on the 30th December 2015, but requires commencement orders to bring it fully into effect. Recently piecemeal sections ...
The Court of Appeal and Personal Injury Awards
One of the most significant developments in the area of personal injury litigation within the last number of years has been the establishment of the Court of Appeal. Apart from ...
Corporate Social Responsibility
The HOMS Solicitors team at the Shannon Airport’s Runway Run. In June our team pounded the runway at the Shannon Airport’s Runway Run, sponsored by Bank of Ireland, ...
Update on EU-US Data Transfer Channels: The Privacy Shield
In October 2015, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that the EU-U.S. Safe Harbour framework, the long-standing trans-Atlantic data transmission channel, was invalid. This case originated ...
High Court finds Receiver is Not Validly Appointed
In Harrington v Gulland Property Finance Limited, two Cork businessmen succeeded in obtaining an interlocutory injunction restraining a receiver from taking possession of certain registered properties at an industrial estate ...