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Employment Brief - December 2011

16 December 2011

Welcome to December’s edition of Employment Brief.

Insurance Brief - October 2011

28 October 2011

Welcome to this month’s edition of Insurance Brief. In this issue, we report on a recent decision concerning an insurance company’s liability under a performance bond that had been varied without its knowledge and another which reviewed the effect of a “follow the leader” clause. We also include a feature article by Rachel Lee from our Dublin office, which focuses on a recent case highlighting the Irish courts’ increasingly tough stance on claimant delays.

The Key - Autumn 2011

October 2011

Articles

Taxing costs: why wait?

3 May 2012

A recent interim application to the Master of the Irish High Court in Walsh v Kearney & Ors [2007] has shown how defendants in Irish litigation can bring pressure to bear on plaintiffs and have costs quantified immediately where a costs order is secured.

Employment law in Ireland - a different kettle of fish

29 November 2011

Kennedys Dublin has many UK clients with business activities in Ireland and these clients are often astounded at the employee-friendly nature of employment law in Ireland when compared to the UK. While it might be expected that pan-European legislation such as TUPE would apply equally in all EU jurisdictions, employment law in Ireland and the panoply of state agencies established to administer the applicable legislation presents a bewildering picture to UK clients.

Irish High Court gets tough on claimant delays

27 October 2011

Increasingly, the Irish courts are becoming less tolerant of delays by claimants. The recent judgment in the case of Atlantic Distributors Ltd v Sean Brennan (as yet unreported), highlights how delays in issuing third party proceedings can lead to the end of the road, not only for the third party proceedings but for subsequent contribution proceedings. Accordingly, defendants who are minded to raise issues of delay, can reap rewards by applying to strike out a claim on this ground, as happened in this case successfully handled by Kennedys Dublin.