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It’s almost a year to the day since the first lockdown, with many businesses closed for most of that year, and some still closed. And those businesses are now examining their business interruption insurance coverage to see to what extent they can recover their losses, if at all.

In this episode Joanelle O’Cleirigh, a partner in the Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Investigations team, is joined by Richard Willis and Mick Twomey, also partners in the Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Investigations team, and Jennifer McCarthy, Head of our Insurance and Reinsurance team, to examine business interruption insurance and the widely reported High Court decision in the FBD case.

Disclaimer: The contents of this podcast are to assist access to information and do not constitute legal or other advice. Specific advice should be sought in relation to specific cases. If you would like more information on this topic, please contact a member of our team or your usual Arthur Cox contact.

The second episode of our series will focus on the construction sector and Niav O'Higgins, Partner, Brian Gillespie, Associate, and Katrina Donnelly, Professional Support Lawyer, from our Construction Group, will discuss how the industry had adapted to COVID-19 and how to manage the associated risks, together with a timely reminder of the risks associated with working at height, one of the more significant hazards for those working in construction.

Disclaimer: The contents of this podcast are to assist access to information and do not constitute legal or other advice. Specific advice should be sought in relation to specific cases. If you would like more information on this topic, please contact a member of our team or your usual Arthur Cox contact.

The financial regulatory scene has been an extraordinarily active one in the past number of years, with a wide range of supervisory and enforcement themes on the Central Bank's agenda. But what's in play this coming year?

In this first episode of our new podcast series "The Arthur Cox Regulatory Investigations Review", Sinead Reilly, a Professional Support Lawyer at Arthur Cox, is joined by Jennifer McCarthy, Head of our Insurance and Reinsurance Group; Rob Cain, the Head of our Financial Regulation Group; and Richard Willis from our Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Investigations group.

The team discuss what sectors are on the CBI's radar for 2021, what's happening with business interruption insurance, where we're at with the differential pricing review and when we are likely to see legislation on SEAR.

Disclaimer: The contents of this podcast are to assist access to information and do not constitute legal or other advice. Specific advice should be sought in relation to specific cases. If you would like more information on this topic, please contact a member of our team or your usual Arthur Cox contact.

Catherine Wolfe and Niall Guinan, associates in the Arthur Cox Insurance and Reinsurance team, discuss recent developments in relation to the impact of Brexit on the insurance sector in Ireland. As listeners will be aware, after leaving the EU on 31 January 2020 the UK entered into the transition period, which from a regulatory perspective maintained the status quo until 31 December 2020. At 11pm on 31 December the UK exited the post-Brexit transition period and entered into a new trade agreement with the EU.

Disclaimer: The contents of this podcast are to assist access to information and do not constitute legal or other advice. Specific advice should be sought in relation to specific cases. If you would like more information on this topic, please contact a member of our team or your usual Arthur Cox contact.

In this Winter Audio Briefing Series by the firm's Health and Safety Group, we address key topics which have been brought into sharper focus by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and which are likely to continue to dominate over the coming months.

In the first episode, Deirdre O’Mahony, Partner, Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Investigations and Alan Coyne, Associate, Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Investigations discuss HSA inspections including the powers of the HSA and what you can do to ensure that you are prepared for an inspection by the HSA, be it a Covid-19 inspection, a routine inspection or a non-routine inspection.

Disclaimer: The contents of this podcast are to assist access to information and do not constitute legal or other advice. Specific advice should be sought in relation to specific cases. If you would like more information on this topic, please contact a member of our team or your usual Arthur Cox contact.

What does it mean to act corruptly? What are the risks and what practical steps can businesses and other organisations take to address corruption risk? In this audio briefing, Deirdre O’Mahony (Partner) and Sinéad Reilly (Professional Support Lawyer) discuss the heightened risk of corrupt activity in times of crisis and disruption and the steps that companies and other organisations can take to mitigate those risks.

Disclaimer: The contents of this podcast are to assist access to information and do not constitute legal or other advice. Specific advice should be sought in relation to specific cases. If you would like more information on this topic, please contact a member of our team or your usual Arthur Cox contact.

The Residential Tenancies and Valuation Act 2020, enacted on 1 August 2020, replaces the measures put in place to protect residential tenants set out in the Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020.

In this audio briefing, Dearbhla Considine, Professional Support Lawyer in the Real Estate team, is joined by Real Estate Partner Órlaith Molloy to discuss some of the key changes to residential landlord and tenant law that our clients need to be aware of.

Disclaimer: The contents of this podcast are to assist access to information and do not constitute legal or other advice. Specific advice should be sought in relation to specific cases. If you would like more information on this topic, please contact a member of our team or your usual Arthur Cox contact.

Few would have thought business interruption insurance would be one of the hot legal topics of 2020, but few would have also predicted we would be living through a global pandemic.

To discuss the business interruption insurance test case recently heard by the English High Court, Sinéad Reilly, the Professional Support Lawyer in our Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Investigations group, is joined today by Niall Guinan, an Associate in our Insurance and Reinsurance group.

Disclaimer: The contents of this podcast are to assist access to information and do not constitute legal or other advice. Specific advice should be sought in relation to specific cases. If you would like more information on this topic, please contact a member of our team or your usual Arthur Cox contact.

In this audio briefing, Catherine Wolfe, an associate in the Insurance and Reinsurance team will discuss some of the key legislative changes that will shortly come into effect under the Consumer Insurance Contract Act 2019.

Disclaimer: The contents of this podcast are to assist access to information and do not constitute legal or other advice. Specific advice should be sought in relation to specific cases. If you would like more information on this topic, please contact a member of our team or your usual Arthur Cox contact.

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the face of litigation in Ireland, quite dramatically in fact, and has really accelerated technological change and forced the courts and lawyers to change the way they operate.

And while this change was a necessary response to the pandemic, it has in fact set the stage for how things might play out on a more permanent basis, and how our courts might operate into the future. To discuss the impact this has had, Sinéad Reilly, the Professional Support Lawyer in the Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Investigations team is joined by Richard Willis (Partner), Jillian Conefrey (Senior Associate) and Eileen Burns (Head of Legal Tech and Innovation Services)who really have been at the front and centre of this change in the last number of months.

Disclaimer: The contents of this podcast are to assist access to information and do not constitute legal or other advice. Specific advice should be sought in relation to specific cases. If you would like more information on this topic, please contact a member of our team or your usual Arthur Cox contact.