Philip Lee is delighted to announce for the second year that the firm is the exclusive legal partner and main gold sponsor of the Construction Industry Federation Annual Conference. The event will take place at Croke Park, Dublin on October 2nd. The theme of the event is “Constructing Ireland 2040: How the industry will shape […]

Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v Lancashire County Council [2018] EWHC 1589 (TCC) 22 June 2018 “a procurement in which the contracting authority cannot explain why it awarded the scores which it did fails the most basic standard of transparency”. The above submission accepted by Mr Justice Stuart-Smith in […]

We are delighted to announce Partner Andrew Tzialli will be hosting a workshop on Raising Finance as a Cryptocurrency or Blockchain Business in Talent Garden on September 18th at 9.30am. Andrew Tzialli will explore some of the unique challenges faced by cryptocurrency and blockchain business when raising finance via an ICO or Tokenised Security Offering, […]

A recent Irish High Court decision of 21 June 2018 (Newbridge Tyre and Battery Co Ltd v Commissioner of An Garda Síochána ([2018] IEHC 365) sheds new light on the point at which the 30 day time limit begins for aggrieved tenderers to lodge a challenge to a tender process under the European Communities (Public […]

As published in The Sunday Business Post 2018. The rise of the gig economy has seen many people who work for one employer classed incorrectly as independent contractors. Happily, this is changing. Employment relationships can be neatly divided into two categories – the employee and the independent contractor. The legal distinction between the two is […]

As published in the Sunday Business Post, August 2018. Employment disputes are a fact of life – people being people, tensions inevitably arise in the workplace and these can cause significant difficulties for employers and employees alike. In any business, there will always be a (hopefully limited) cohort of individuals whom the employer will not […]

Partner Simon O’Neill has been working closely with Community Finance Ireland to introduce Ireland’s first Shariah compliant financing product Developed for Community Finance Ireland (CFI), An Irish charity dedicated to providing loans to community groups which has extended an excess of EUR90 million (US$105.41 million) to over 500 organizations, has added a Shariah compliant financing […]

As published in the Sunday Business Post, 5th August 2018. Ireland, like many of our EU neighbours, includes among its myriad of immigration schemes a residence-by-investment programme for high net worth individuals. The Immigrant Investor Programme (IIP) was only introduced in 2012 and is still in its infancy. As it grows and expands, it learns. […]

The European Union (Planning and Development)(Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2018 will come into operation on 1 September 2018. They seek to transpose EIA Directive 2014/52/EU and to give further effect to the 2011 Directive.  They do so by way of extensive amendments to existing planning legislation and a timely consolidation of the legislation would be […]

As published in the Times, July 2018. We keep hearing it: Brexit means Brexit. A hard Brexit. A soft Brexit. A cherry-picked, fantastical Brexit. Perhaps increasingly likely, a no-deal Brexit. This mess may be of the UK’s making, but borders are not impervious to spilt milk. Souring as it flows, that mess will meander its […]