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December 2012 Online Defamation – Social Networks. The internet has facilitated an inexpensive and instantaneous way to express feelings and voice opinions. View
July 2012 Service of summons via social media: The courts catch up with the facebook generation The High Court recently allowed service of a summons through Facebook. In this particular case a Solicitor who had been trying unsuccessfully to serve proceedings on a non-resident defendant brought an application to serve proceedings via the social network View
December 2011 Presidential Election Musings....Defamation, Traction and Law Was the person who devised this ballot paper flirting with defamation law? View
December 2010 JURY AWARDS IN DEFAMATION CASES The highest jury and defamation award in the history of the State was handed down on the evening of Wednesday 17 November 2010 ... View
February 2010 DEFAMATION ACT 2009 Probably the longest running saga concerning legislative reform finally came to an end during the summer when the President signed the Defamation Bill 2006 into law ... View
February 2010 MEDIA - WINNING ON THE PRINCIPLES The Supreme Court gave judgment on 31 July in the appeal brought by our clients Geraldine Kennedy and Colm Keena of The Irish Times against a High Court Order made in 2007. View
January 2010 Media & Irish Society post Defamation Act 2009 Seminar On Thursday 21st January Hayes solicitors will hold a major seminar on the relationship between the media and Irish society following the passage of the Defamation Act 2009. View
January 2010 Defamation Act will facilitate more sensible, efficient justice ARGUABLY THE longest running saga concerning legislative reform finally came to an end during the summer when the President signed the Defamation Bill 2006 into law (it came into force yesterday), writes ANDREW O'RORKE View
July 2009 Hayes Acts For Irish Times Editor Geraldine Kennedy And Public Affairs Correspondent Colm Keena In Landmark Supreme Court Case Hayes solicitors acted in proceedings taken by the Mahon Tribunal against Geraldine Kennedy and Colm Keena before a divisional High Court in July 2007... View
July 2009 Press Council Of Ireland The recently established Press Council of Ireland is the body charged with ensuring independent regulation of the print media in Ireland... View
July 2009 Chatroom Defamation? In March 2009, the Irish High Court ruled for the first time on the meaning of the E-Commerce Directive... View
23-Jul-2006Planned legislation not the answer to privacy concernsMichael McDowell's new defamation legislation raises serious concerns, and his privacy Bill is disproportionate and unnecessary, writes Andrew O'Rorke...... View
17-Dec-2003Defamation - Legal Advisory Group ReportIn June of this year the Minister for Justice Equality and Law Reform published a report prepared for him by the Legal Advisory Group on Defamation....... View
5-Jun-2003Employment references and the law of defamation Most people associate the law of defamation with legal actions taken by individuals to defend negative things said about their character in newspaper ...... View