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Equality Law in Ireland Update 2012 Full Day Equality Law is ever-changing, from the development of case law in the newer jurisdictions, such as age discrimination, to major cases that impact right across Europe and affect every employer. Ireland is falling behind the rest of Europe but we a... [Read All]

1. Declares that, by requiring that migrant workers and dependent family members comply with a residence requirement – namely, the ‘three out of six years’ rule – in order to be eligible to receive funding for higher educational studies pursued outside the Netherlands, the Ki... [Read All]

Directive 2008/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008 to approximate the laws of the Member States relating to trade marks must be interpreted as meaning that it requires the goods and services for which the protection of the trade mark is sought to be identified by t... [Read All]

Article 7(1) of Directive 2003/88/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 November 2003 concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time must be interpreted as precluding national provisions under which a worker who becomes unfit for work during a period of paid annual le... [Read All]

JUDGMENT OF THE GENERAL COURT (First Chamber) 6 July 2012 (Community trade mark – Invalidity proceedings – Community word mark ROYAL SHAKESPEARE – Earlier Community word mark RSC-ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY – Relative grounds for invalidity – Mark with a reputation &nda... [Read All]

1. Articles 49 TFEU and 54 TFEU are to be interpreted as precluding national legislation which enables companies established under national law to convert, but does not allow, in a general manner, companies governed by the law of another Member State to convert to companies governed by national law ... [Read All]

1. Article 22(1) of Directive 2008/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2008 on credit agreements for consumers and repealing Council Directive 87/102/EEC must be interpreted as not precluding a national measure designed to transpose that directive into domestic law from i... [Read All]

1. Article 13 of Directive 2002/20/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 March 2002 on the authorisation of electronic communications networks and services (Authorisation Directive) must be interpreted as precluding the imposition of a fee for the right to install facilities on, over... [Read All]

Article 56 TFEU must be interpreted as not precluding legislation of a Member State which permits the advertising in that State of casinos located in another Member State only where the legal provisions for the protection of gamblers adopted in that other Member State provide guarantees that are in ... [Read All]

Objective   This annual conference will analyse the current state of EU consumer protection law and the most important recent EU initiatives in this field.   Key topics The conference will debate the state of play of the following topics: Consumer redress ... [Read All]