RDJ Legal Insights
January 2025
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To AI Literacy and Beyond: The Final Frontier opens on 2 February 2025 (3 mins)
The EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024 (“AI Act”) will be phased in across all EU Member States between 2 February 2025 and 31 December 2030, marking a pivotal step in regulating the use of AI.
In this insight, Ricky Kelly and Sarah Lucey from RDJ’s Artificial Intelligence team consider the various stages of implementation before focusing on the first step, the requirement that organisations take measures to ensure AI Literacy within their personnel, which comes into effect on 2 February 2025. Read here.
Who pays what? Understanding Party and Party Costs vs. Solicitor and Client Costs (4 mins)
The recent costs ruling against Conor McGregor in the High Court civil action brought against him by Nikita Hand has led to much discourse and comment in the media regarding the confusing distinction between party and party costs and solicitor and client costs.
RDJ Senior Associate, Hilda Mannix sheds light on the topic and explains the subtle difference between these two categories of costs in contentious matters. Read here.
AI journey toward compliance: First draft of the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice published (3 mins)
The second draft of the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice is set to be published shortly.
In this instalment of our EU AI Act series, Ricky Kelly and Sarah Lucey from RDJ’s Artificial Intelligence team delve into the draft code, its objectives and consider what organisations should anticipate next. Read here.
Tax: Recent Tax Appeals Commission determinations and Court judgments (4 of 2024) (3 mins)
The Courts and the Tax Appeals Commission have considered the following issues in recent months:
RDJ Senior Associate Mark Ludlow examines these decisions in the latest edition of the Irish Tax Review. Read here.
High Court awards €140,000 damages for defamatory Facebook post (2 mins)
A recent High Court judgement awarded €140,000 in damages for a defamatory Facebook post.
In this insight, Darryl Broderick from RDJ’s Media team examines the judgement, the reasoning behind the substantial award and the impact of such an award on defamation proceedings in respect of social media posts. Read here.
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