Year: 2011

The MUD Act – A long overdue piece of legislation introducing new obligations on Developers and providing greater assistance to homeowners.   The Multi – Unit Development Act (the Act) was signed into…

Pre nuptial Agreements may become more common in the future.   In Ireland, there is no particular legislation dealing with Pre-nuptial Agreements.  Their position in Irish Law remains unclear.  In…

Changes in the law regulating registration of Rights of Way.   The Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009 introduced onerous provisions concerning registration of certain types of easements including rights of way.  Following…

Adverse Possession. Do you have vacant property? Do you regularly check it’s boundaries? When Lawyers talk about applications to the Land Registry for first registration based on adverse possession, it…

A dispute which started over an electricity bill in the PRTB in 2005, finishes in the Supreme Court in 2011. Residential Tenancies legislation introduced in 2004 with the aim of providing an…

Companies Bill  marks the beginning of landmark change to Irish company law. The Company Law Review Group (CLRG) has now published the first volume (or Pillar A) of the draft…

Cohabiting couples expecting changes to the tax regime must be disappointed.   The Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 (“The Act”) was signed into law…

The Injuries Board is a body set up by the Government in 2004 as a response to Ireland’s “claims culture” and was intended to reduce the cost of insurance. It’s…

“Breaking up is hard to do!”    So said “The Carpenters”, not knowing the constraints imposed by the Irish legal system on couples who get into difficulty. Separation for any couple…

Making a Will – Why Bother? It is surprising the high proportion of people who die every year without having made a will, or intestate, to use the legal term.…