The Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017 contains a number of proposed legislative changes, that have received diametrically opposed responses from employers and trade unions.
The recent High Court case of O’Reilly & anor v Neville & ors [2018] has highlighted the need for Plaintiffs to consider reasonable offers and attempts by the Defendants to settle matters or risk not recovering their party-party costs even when successful in the action.
Marital breakdown can result in one spouse making a claim over the other spouses inherited assets or his/her shareholding in a family businesses which has been in existence for generations prior to the marriage.