The Court of Appeal has delivered its verdict on the question of costs in the Gemma O’Doherty & John Waters and The Minister for Health and Ireland and the Attorney General case concerning the constitutionality of measures introduced by the State to deal with the Covid 19 pandemic. O’Doherty and Waters lost their appeal to … Read more
The High Court, in May 2020, refused the application of Gemma O’Doherty and John Waters to challenge the constitutionality of measures taken by Ireland to contain the spread of the coronavirus in Ireland. Why did they fail at the first hurdle? What did they need to show? Was there bias? Let’s take a look and … Read more
I was contacted last week by a couple of clients whose business has gone through the floor or evaporated entirely as a consequence of COVID-19. One of the first concerns they had was the difficulty they were inevitably going to encounter in trying to continue to pay the rent on their commercial premises. Here are … Read more