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ECJ refers back key issues in Interflora v Marks & Spencer to English High Court

  • McCann FitzGerald
  • -
  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • November 24 2011

The European Court of Justice issued judgment in the long running Interflora v M&S AdWord case on 22 September last largely leaving it up to the referring UK High Court to determine whether M&S's use of Interflora's trade mark in the context of online advertising

New High Court judicial review procedure comes into effect

  • McCann FitzGerald
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  • Ireland
  • -
  • January 11 2012

The first significant changes made in a quarter of a century to the High Court’s judicial review procedure came into effect in January 2012

Financial claims - statute of limitations clarified

  • McCann FitzGerald
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  • Ireland
  • -
  • June 7 2012

The Supreme Court has clarified the rules governing the period of time within which a person who proposes to sue a bank for financial loss must act: broadly speaking, the claim must be brought within six years of the date on which the alleged loss occurred but the clock does not start to tick while there is only a “mere possibility” of loss in a case

Equality law - compulsory retirement age

  • McCann FitzGerald
  • -
  • European Union, Ireland
  • -
  • December 7 2012

In Ireland, there is no statutory mandatory retirement age, except in respect of certain public sector occupations

Sickness absence and the impact of the case of Delaney v Central Bank of Ireland

  • McCann FitzGerald
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  • Ireland
  • -
  • December 7 2012

Sickness absence in the workplace, particularly where it is recurrent or long term, has a significant impact on employers

Recent developments in copyright law

  • McCann FitzGerald
  • -
  • European Union, Ireland
  • -
  • July 20 2012

In this article, we take a look in brief at the latest copyright decisions which have been handed down by the Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU"

Reform of the employment law fora

  • McCann FitzGerald
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  • Ireland
  • -
  • July 25 2012

In July 2011, Richard Bruton, the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, first announced plans to overhaul the current employment law fora following his criticisms that the existing system was too complex and onerous, takes too long to navigate and costs too much

Recent developments on bonus entitlements in financial institutions

  • McCann FitzGerald
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 25 2012

The area of bonus entitlements in financial institutions is still a source of controversy both in the UK and Ireland at a time when austerity programmes are being adopted by many companies

Important redundancy update employers may now have to consider “bumping”

  • McCann FitzGerald
  • -
  • Ireland, United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 1 2013

Bumping is a relatively well-established concept in the UK and, although not obligatory, a number of UK cases have considered the concept and

Litigation an important judgment for group companies

  • McCann FitzGerald
  • -
  • Ireland
  • -
  • February 13 2013

Up to recently, companies involved in Irish litigation faced doubt about whether they had to seek out and give discovery of relevant documents held by

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