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Imprisonment of executive in Ireland for non-payment of antitrust fine highlights the growing risk of jail time for price fixing

  • Jones Day
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  • Ireland, USA
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  • December 4 2009

On 30 November, Ireland’s Central Criminal Court imposed its first custodial sentence on an individual for involvement in a cartel

New Circuit Court Rules encourage use of mediation to settle disputes

  • A&L Goodbody
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  • Ireland, USA
  • -
  • January 19 2010

New Circuit Court Rules (the Rules) have been introduced which provide that a Circuit Court Judge or County Registrar at a case progression hearing may, on the application of any of the parties on notice or of his own motion, adjourn the proceedings or any issue therein, for a period not exceeding 28 days, to allow the parties to use mediation, conciliation or arbitration or any other dispute resolution process to settle or determine the proceedings or issue in question

Ninth Circuit rejects private right of action to enforce Section 13(a) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
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  • Ireland, USA
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  • August 27 2010

In Northstar Financial Advisors, Inc v Schwab Investments, No 09-16347, 2010 WL 3169400 (9th Cir. Aug. 12, 2010), the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that nothing in Section 13(a) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (“ICA”), as originally enacted or as subsequently amended, either created a private right of action or implied that such a right exists with the clarity and specificity required under United States Supreme Court precedent

Supreme Court issues guidance on the remedy of rectification

  • A&L Goodbody
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  • Ireland, USA
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  • January 18 2011

The Supreme Court recently ruled that 80 former miners with a disability are to be excluded from substantial pension benefits available to existing employees

Ireland deemed a more convenient forum for further Madoff litigation

  • Mason Hayes & Curran
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  • Ireland, USA
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  • October 14 2011

In July 2011 U.S. District Judge Paul C. Huck ruled in a U.S. class action suit between foreign investors and Banco Santander S.A. and several other defendants, including PwC Ireland and HSBC Securities Services (Ireland) Limited, that Ireland is a more appropriate forum for the proceedings

Recent developments for the fourth quarter 2011

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • Canada, China, Denmark, European Union, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • March 15 2012

The end of the year and beginning of a new year is always a busy time for us, as it is for most of our clients

Environmentalists challenge GM potato trials in Ireland

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • Ireland, USA
  • -
  • August 31 2012

Following the Irish Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) decision to allow genetically modified (GM) potato trials in County Carlow, a group of environmentalists and organic producers reportedly mounted a legal challenge under the Aarhus Convention which allows environmental legal issues to be pursued under a “non-prohibitively expensive order.”

Summary relief denied in defamation action

  • Matheson
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  • Ireland, USA
  • -
  • August 9 2011

TD Michael Lowry failed to obtain summary judgement for defamation against journalist Sam Smyth. In one of the first applications pursuant to the Defamation Act 2009, Mr Lowry sought summary relief that Mr Smyth’s description of him as a liar, was defamatory

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