Ireland: Disclosure & Electronic Discovery & Privilege

The High Court examined whether an order giving effect to Letters Rogatory should be set aside due to alleged material non-disclosure and claims of oppression. The case arose from a dispute over the sale of the World Marathon Challenge event, involving intellectual property rights and parallel proceedings in multiple jurisdictions.

The High Court has granted a Norwich Pharmacal order, directing RTÉ (Ireland’s national public broadcaster) to disclose unedited footage captured as part of an undercover investigation into alleged failures of care at two Irish nursing homes.

The Irish High Court has ruled that shareholders no longer have an automatic right to access a company's privileged legal advice, abolishing the shareholder rule that previously allowed such disclosure. This landmark decision aligns Irish law with recent developments in England, Wales, and Bermuda, fundamentally reshaping the relationship between corporate privilege and shareholder information rights.

They dismissed his appeal against the 2022 determination of the High Court that Mr Delaney had failed to establish privilege in any of 1,123 documents seized by the Corporate...

In a recent judgment, the High Court held that a party waived their right to privilege over legal advices received by it (Elsharkawy v The Minister for Transport [2023] IEHC 672).

Welcome to our November 2023 edition of Legal News where we continue to provide you with a selection of our recent publications, and present our Legal News Podcast...

Clients with experience of litigating in Ireland will be familiar with the discovery process and the onerous obligation to disclose all relevant documents which are in their power

In this briefing, we consider a recent decision of the Office of the Information Commissioner (the "OIC") which usefully restates the principles that should be applied in deciding ...

The High Court has recently handed down a number of key decisions on legal privilege.