Terry The Auctioneers and House Agents Act, 1947 and District Court rules (Order 63) makes provision for the granting of an auctioneer’s licence. (However since May, 2012 there has been a significant change in this area with the new body, the Property Services Regulatory Authority coming into effect. Visit their website here for details of how … Read more
The Status of Children Act, 1987 makes provision for declarations of parentage. This will involve an application to the Circuit Court that a person is his/her mother or father, even where the parent is dead. The Status of Children Act, 1987 also provides for blood tests including DNA testing, where parentage is in dispute, to … Read more
Deciding to start your own business is easy. However, ensuring that your start up does not become an insignificant statistic in the “graveyard of broken dreams” along with the 85% of startups that fail within 3 years is more problematic. Despite the massive changes in technology in the last few years the fundamentals of starting … Read more
An employer’s obligations in redundancy situations will depend on whether a collective redundancy is proposed or it is a “normal” redundancy in a small business in Ireland. This piece will look at non-collective redundancies; in collective redundancies there will be additional requirements on the employer imposed by the Protection of Employment Acts 1977 to 2007 … Read more
TUPE. The Transfer of Undertakings Directive of 1977, which became part of Irish law by the European Communities (Safeguarding of Employees’ Rights on Transfer of Undertakings) Regulations, 1980, protects the rights of employees where the business in which they are employed is transferred to a new owner. It is a significant piece of legislation if … Read more