Oonagh Breen and Phil Smith are the authors of ‘Law of Charities in Ireland’, a timely handbook which details how all charities in Ireland can ensure that they are legally compliant with all aspects of charities law. This complex area is clearly and concisely explained by the two leading experts in the charity law field. Grainne McMahon, Content Editor with Bloomsbury Professional caught up with Oonagh and Phil to discuss the book and the law surrounding the regulation of charities ..read more

While the year was full of many unexpected changes, we at Bloomsbury Professional Ireland were pleased to be able to continue to publish an excellent range of tax and law titles during 2020. With this in mind we are delighted to provide a round up of this year's releases ..read more

Coming into the final months of 2020, we are delighted to share our list of upcoming titles. In the next months we will be publishing a range of fantastic titles, in a variety of areas including well-established key titles such as Wylie on Irish Land Law and Charleton and McDermott’s Criminal Law and Evidence ..read more

With the fight against the novel coronavirus known as SARS-Cov-2 fast approaching the six-month mark, perhaps it’s time to dissect some of the more high-profile pieces of legislation that have been passed since our last update back in April ..read more

The main transformative effect of the coronavirus pandemic has been to accelerate the move towards many businesses and firms embracing and implementing flexible working practices – chief among these being more staff working from home than ever before. Previously seen as somewhat of a luxury, working from home has now become the only way to conduct business for many firms and indeed, three out of five businesses are now considering making remote working a permanent fixture. It was for this reason that we at Bloomsbury Professional Ireland decided to survey our customers who had previously pu ..read more

The latest edition of our Intellectual Property and IT Law Update is now live for online subscribers, covering issues such as contact tracing apps, e-commerce in the age of Covid-19. Subscribers may access the articles by clicking on any of the links below: Covid-19 and an overview of contact tracing apps across Europe Covid-19 and e-commerce: top ten legal issues for online retailers Protecting your business from cybercriminals   ..read more

The latest issue of Irish Employment Law Update is now live for subscribers to Irish Employment Law. Authored by Tara Murphy BL, this issue contains articles on the following topics ..read more

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As with many controversies, discussions of the implications of the coronavirus pandemic and privacy involves a number of myths. It will be interesting to see which survive this unprecedented period. Perhaps the most fundamental is the capacity of science and engineering to manage, control, and subdue the natural world. It had seemed to many that the developed world is largely safe from virulent disease. This false sense of security has been punctured; it is clear that this pandemic is far from over, and there may be others to come, for which we must also prepare. Nonetheless, myths are not di ..read more

The case of Smith v Irish Rail [1] appeared before the Irish High Court in October 2002. The case raised the question of whether an agreement, deemed in writing, to be a licence can be declared to be a lease in substance. This is a question with which Irish Courts have long grappled, and a series of case law has resulted in the emergence of conflicting approaches being applied to very similar cases. The decision in Smith appears to reassert the courts’ ability to look beyond the paper upon which an agreement is written, considering instead the conduct of the relevant parties. However, I belie ..read more