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Commercial and Employment Law
From Chief State Solicitor’s Office
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From Chief State Solicitor’s Office
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The Commercial Law section offers comprehensive legal advice and support across various commercial law areas. It specialises in contractual law, competition, and regulatory matters, with a focus on State aid compliance for grant aid measures.
Additionally, it provides expert guidance on:
Furthermore, it provides advice on planning and environmental law, particularly concerning access to environmental information requests.
The Employment Law Section represents Government departments and offices before the Superior Courts and Circuit and District Courts on employment matters, including constitutional challenges, interlocutory injunctions, cases brought before the European Courts and also employment hearings before the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) and on appeal to the Labour Court and higher courts.
The Section deals with a wide range of employment-related litigation and advices, including on issues such as:
The Public Procurement Law Section provides specialist advice to Government Departments and Offices on public procurement issues and contractual negotiations and drafting arising from same. It handles contractual and procurement related work in a wide range of areas including information technology, digital communications, inward migration, transport, and infrastructure projects.
This Section provides a full Solicitor service to the Office of Government Procurement (OGP) where its work includes advising on Frameworks, Mini Competitions, Bespoke Projects and providing policy advice to OGP and Government Departments on EU Procurement Directives. It is also involved in advising on pre-litigation correspondence following the announcement of the award of frameworks and contracts.