April McClements

The Insurability of GDPR Fines

OECD, European Union, Ireland - July 24 2019 The introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016679 (“GDPR”) has raised data protection to a board level issue, as companies are...

Chris Bollard, Finín O'Brien, Aisling Kavanagh.

Class action procedure in Ireland

Ireland - May 28 2019 An overview of class and collective action procedure in Ireland, including commencement of proceedings, procedural rules, damages and costs, and settlement....

Aoife McCluskey.

Recent class actions law developments in Ireland

Ireland - May 28 2019 This article summarises the major trends and developments in class and collective actions in Ireland over the past year....

Aoife McCluskey.

Are Our Words Interpreted Differently by Social Media Users? UK Supreme Court Issues Judgment

United Kingdom - May 15 2019 On 3 April 2019, the UK Supreme Court held that comments made by a wife in a Facebook post that her former husband had “tried to strangle” her were...

Tom Turner, Michael Byrne.

Clarity for Insurers Seeking to Join Proceedings

United Kingdom - April 17 2019 The April 2018 decision of Bin Sun v Jason Price(1) provides a useful summary of the circumstances in which a party can be joined as co-defendant...