The Art of Staying Anonymous Confirmed: European Court Decides
On 4 September 2025, the CJEU clarified what constitutes personal data when transferring pseudony...
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The CJEU has been asked to rule for the first time on whether generative AI training and outputs ...
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The CJEU has affirmed the "country of origin" principle, emphasising that primary responsibility ...
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DSARs: motive is not a relevant factor to Europe's highest court and regulators will conduct a Co...
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Welcome to the June 2023 edition of Legal News. Here is a selection of our recent publications on...
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The Court of Justice of the European Union has found that mere infringement of the GDPR is not su...
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Important new Regulations provide greater clarity to employees on their terms and conditions of e...
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New CJEU guidance on rebranding parallel imported medicines.
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Ahead of the Council of Europe's annual Data Protection Day on 28 January 2021, we unpack the key...
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We explore whether Ireland's working time legislation is fit for purpose against the backdrop of ...
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The Supreme Court has referred a number of questions to the CJEU in Merck Sharp & Dohme's appeal ...
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European Court upholds validity of Standard Contractual Clauses but not Privacy Shield as interna...
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The CJEU has ruled against Kerry Group in a long-running legal dispute with Ornua over registerin...
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The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) is expected to publish its long-awaited decisio...
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The Irish High Court has delivered a ruling that the DPC can resume an investigation that may res...
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Following a recent decision from the CJEU, commercial agents that negotiate the sale of software ...
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The Court of Appeal has upheld a finding by the High Court that Merck Sharp & Dohme's Inegy SPC w...
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The Madrid Commercial Court has made a preliminary reference to the CJEU to consider whether comp...
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On 22 June, the Court of Justice of the European Union issued its judgment on the liability of in...
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In an opinion delivered on 19 December 2019, Advocate General Henrik Saugmandsgaard Øe finds that...
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This week saw the publication of draft guidance by the European Data Protection Board and draft s...
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We analyse two recent landmark decisions delivered by the Court of Justice of the European Union ...
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New ruling by CJEU provides clarity on who will be considered an "operating air carrier"
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An analysis for Irish fund management companies of the impact of the decision in the Blackrock VA...
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William Fry submit feedback to the European Commission in respect of consultation feedback on the...
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The Data Protection Commission has been ordered to pay the majority of the costs in the litigatio...
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Welcome to the January 2020 edition of Legal News. We at William Fry aim to keep you up to date o...
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In our Spring Pensions Briefing, our team consider the likely implications of the McCloud and Bau...
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This article considers the recent decision of the European Commission to commence infringement pr...
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A dispute regarding a €6 million Irish pension scheme in a personal bankruptcy was referred to th...
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This article discusses a recent decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union confirming...
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Supreme Court dismisses Facebook's appeal on the transfer of personal data.
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The CJEU has ruled that a product name which evokes a connection to a protected geographical indi...
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