To read our Legal News October 2012, please click on the title above.

The Revenue Commissioners are following up on their guidance on the taxation of directors’ fees.

Former manager of a gas supply company awarded €120,000 compensation for unfair dismissal because his employer failed to conduct proper investigations or adopt a disciplinary procedure.

Limited Intervention by the Court in the Conduct of an Examiner The Eircom examinership, the State’s biggest ever examinership, afforded the Irish High Court an opportunity to comment on when it is appropriate for it to intervene in relation to the conduct of an examiner.

Mobile phone operators, eMobile and Meteor, have been ordered to pay €15,000 each to charity after the personal data of a number of their customers was compromised following the theft of two password protected but unencrypted laptops from Eircom’s Dublin offices.

A US jury recently awarded Apple Inc. $1.049 billion in damages, the fourth largest award in a US patent case, after it found that Samsung Electronics Co. had infringed a number of Apple’s patents.

New draft legislation has been published which, if passed, will consolidate and reform the existing law on corruption in the State.

The proper test for implied terms in a contract was recently considered by the English High Court. An implied term is a term that has not been expressly agreed by the parties to a contract, but is implied by the courts in certain circumstances to clarify what the contract actually means.

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