This unit details the European and Irish law regulating freedom of information and examines the application of the current 2014 Act in the Irish Courts to date up to the pending decision in the appeal of the High Court decision in UCC v RTE. The unit also considers the use of FOIA requests as [...]
The question of whom belongs to the nation is perhaps the most significant aspect of any constitution. Irish citizenship, since 2005, can be acquired at birth (jus soli), if one of the parents has Irish citizenship, or by descent (jus sanguinis), if anyone with an Irish citizen grandparent born on the island of Ireland [...]
This unit offers an overview of the relevant European and Irish law regulating business to consumer transactions online. The unit also looks coming developments in the form of Directive 2019/770 on contracts for the supply of digital content and digital services.
This unit examines Ireland's civil and criminal laws regulating speech on social media. In particular, the unit examines proposed changes to legislation governing criminal sanctions for certain harmful speech and how the court's of Ireland and England and Wales have dealt with defamation on social media. The unit concludes with an examination of social media's [...]
Complaint Procedures and Professional Misconduct under the LSRA Act 2015 This presentation focuses on complaints procedures surrounding professional misconduct under the Legal Services Regulation Act 2015, by way of brief update for practicing solicitors. What constitutes a complaint, how complaints are brought under the Act, to which body, and the new definition of “professional [...]
Irish company legislation consists of Companies Acts 1963-2013. The Companies Act 2014 replaced the Companies Acts 1963-2013 on 1st June 2015. Over fifty years’ worth of legislation in the form of primary acts, statutory instruments and EU directives have been re-cast into the 2014 Act. The EU has had a major influence on Irish [...]
Data protection is the process of safeguarding information from corruption, compromise or loss. The importance of data protection increases as the amount of data created and stored continues to grow at unprecedented rates. In April 2016, the European Union (EU) adopted a regulation, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which sets guidelines [...]
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