Ireland: Product Liability & Safety

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The New EU Product Liability Directive: Key Changes And Implications For The Life Sciences Sector

The new Product Liability Directive marks the most significant overhaul of product liability law in nearly four decades.

Ireland Healthcare

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McCann Fitzgerald

LIfe Sciences Outlook 2025 - Litigation, Dispute Resolution And Products

It is fair to say that the last number of years have seen a shift in terms of the shape of the liability regime for the life sciences industry, as well as industry more broadly.

Ireland Healthcare

AC

Arthur Cox

Update: Transposition Of Revised Product Liability Regime By 2026

The landscape for product liability litigation in Ireland is changing. We have previously written about these developments, including Directive (EU) 2024/2853...

Ireland Consumer

WF

William Fry

Withdrawal Of The AI Liability Directive

Contained within Annexes to the European Commission's Work Program for 2025, was the withdrawal of the proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on adapting non-contractual...

Ireland Technology

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Byrne Wallace

What's Another Year 2025 - Litigation, Dispute Resolution And Investigations

Ireland Litigation

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Arthur Cox

Life Sciences - Product Liability

Ireland Healthcare

AC

Arthur Cox

The EU AI Act (Podcast)

European Union Technology

AC

Arthur Cox

Product Liability Directive

European Union Consumer

M

Matheson

The EU Rings In New Changes For Product Liability And Product Safety

European Union Consumer

AC

Arthur Cox

The Future Of Product Liability Under Revised EU Directive

Ireland Consumer

WF

William Fry

Product Liability Comparative Guide

Ireland Consumer

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Mason Hayes & Curran

The Regulatory Landscape For Medical Devices At The Close Of 2023

European Union Technology

WF

William Fry

To Refer Or Not To Refer? High Court Provides Further Guidance On Solicitor Referrals To Medical Specialists

Ireland Commercial

WF

William Fry

Further Changes Ahead For Food And Alcohol Labelling

Ireland Consumer

WF

William Fry

EDPB CEF 2024 & 2025: Data Subject Rights (& Wrongs)

Ireland Privacy

MF

McCann Fitzgerald

EU Pay Transparency Directive: What's Clear, What's Not (Video)

Ireland Employment

IL

Ius Laboris

More Employment Rights Bill Amendments Published

Ireland Employment

LS

Lewis Silkin

Ireland Update: AI Policy And Legislation Global Developments

Worldwide Technology

MG

Maples Group

Governing AI, Powering Innovation Video Series

Ireland Technology

AC

Arthur Cox

Updated HPRA Guidance On Appeals Under Cosmetic Product Legislation In Ireland

The Health Products Regulatory Authority (the "HPRA") has recently published updated guidanceOpens in new window (the "HPRA Guidance") on the procedure for appealing compliance notices or measures...

Ireland Consumer

M

Matheson

Product Liability In The Era Of New And Emerging Technology: Changes On The Horizon

Liability for defective products is governed in Ireland by the Liability for Defective Products Act 1991 (1991 Act), which transposed the EU legal framework laid down...

European Union Technology

WF

William Fry

Marketing Of CBD Consumer Products In The EU Addressed By ECJ

The European Court of Justice recently ruled that an EU Member State cannot prohibit the marketing of CBD that has been lawfully produced in another Member State...

European Union Cannabis

AC

Arthur Cox

The Medical Device Regulations – Practical Steps All Economic Operators Should Take Now!

The Medical Device Regulations (‘MDR') represent the most significant overhaul of the existing medical device regulatory framework in 25 years.

Ireland Healthcare

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BHSM

European Cosmetics Regulations – Changes To Prohibited/Restricted Products

European Union Consumer

AC

Arthur Cox

Global Legal Insights: AI, Machine Learning & Big Data, 2019 - First Edition

Ireland Technology

MG

Maples Group

Representative Actions In Consumer Litigation: Dawn Of A New Era?

Ireland Litigation

M

Matheson

The CCPC Recommends Grocery Regulator

Ireland International

M

Matheson

New And Emerging Technologies: Challenging Existing Product Liability Rules

Ireland Consumer

AC

Arthur Cox

Product Liability 2018

Ireland Consumer

M

Matheson

Guide To Product Liability 2017

Ireland Consumer

M

Matheson

Post Market Surveillance Will Now Require Periodic Updates

Ireland Healthcare

AC

Arthur Cox

Product Liability Litigation: Adequacy Of Particulars & Continued Use Of Defective Product

Ireland Consumer

AC

Arthur Cox

Invoking The ‘State Of The Art Defence'? Be Prepared To Back It Up Pre-Trial

Ireland Consumer

AC

Arthur Cox

Guide To Product Liability 2017

What systems of product liability are available (i.e. liability in respect of damage to persons or property resulting from the supply of products found to be defective or faulty)?

Ireland Consumer

M

Matheson

Post Market Surveillance Will Now Require Periodic Updates

The new EU Medical Device Regulations, which are due to be voted on by the European Parliament, will result in increased post market surveillance and vigilance requirements for medical device manufacturers.

Ireland Healthcare

AC

Arthur Cox

Product Liability Litigation: Adequacy Of Particulars & Continued Use Of Defective Product

Manufacturers of products will be interested in two recent court decisions, one from the Irish High Court and one from the English Court of Appeal.

Ireland Consumer

AC

Arthur Cox

Invoking The ‘State Of The Art Defence'? Be Prepared To Back It Up Pre-Trial

Defendants to product liability claims seeking to rely on the 'state of the art' defence must be prepared to provide full particulars (or details) of the facts which they say support the defence prior to trial.

Ireland Consumer

AC

Arthur Cox

European Court Of Justice Considers Scope Of Liability For Notified Bodies

European Union Healthcare

M

Matheson

Public Notification of Food Safety Risks, June 2013

The EU's "General Food Law" introduced a number of definitions of food and feed risk in order to bring greater cohesion to food regulation and risk management across the EU Member States.

Ireland Consumer

AC

Arthur Cox

The International Comparative Legal Guide To: Product Liability In Ireland 2013

The principal product liability statute in Ireland is the Liability for Defective Products Act 1991, which was enacted to implement EC Directive 85/374.

Ireland Consumer

M

Matheson

Commission Proposes Changes To Bovine ID And Beef Labelling, April 2013

European rules on the tagging of bovine animals and on voluntary labelling of beef products are set to change in the near future.

Ireland Healthcare

AC

Arthur Cox

European Product Safety Regime: Long Awaited Reform Now Within Touching Distance

On 13 February 2013 the European Commission ("the Commission") proposed new rules to improve the safety of products circulating in the European Union ("the Union") and to improve market surveillance.

Ireland Consumer

AC

Arthur Cox

Reform Of Feed Ban To Allow PAPs To Be Used In Aqua Feed

European Union Consumer

AC

Arthur Cox

The International Comparative Legal Guide To Product Liability 2012

Ireland Consumer

M

Matheson

Product Liability - Latest Developments In Ongoing Pyrite Saga

Ireland Consumer

M

Matheson

Irish Court Has No Jurisdiction over German Retailer

European Union International

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Duncan Grehan & Partners, Solicitors

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