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Irish injunction law in plain English — twenty honest guides.

Business & Employment

My Employer Is About to Dismiss Me - Can a Court Stop It?

The executive’s emergency remedy: when dismissal can be restrained, the strong-case bar, and why the clock is everything.

Business & Employment

The Ex-Employee Took the Client List. Now What?

The first-week playbook: forensics, the strong letter, springboard relief - and the mistakes that lose these cases.

Business & Employment

Are Non-Competes Actually Enforceable in Ireland?

Restraint of trade, honestly: what makes covenants stick, what voids them, and why boilerplate loses.

Business & Employment

Injunctions in Shareholder Disputes

The irreversibility triage: what to freeze, what to litigate, and why the agreement you signed years ago decides it.

Business & Employment

How Fast Can Assets Be Frozen?

The Mareva timeline from suspicion to order - and the evidence that makes speed possible.

Property & Planning

The Neighbour Is Building Over the Boundary

The digger arrives Monday: quia timet relief, the evidence sprint, and why waiting for foundations is fatal.

Property & Planning

The Right of Way Is Blocked. What Now?

Establish, demand, restrain: the access playbook from title to injunction.

Property & Planning

Section 160, Explained

The planning injunction any person can seek: unauthorised development stopped and remedied - and the defence.

Property & Planning

Trespass & Unauthorised Occupation

Restoring possession lawfully and fast - and why self-help costs more than it saves.

Property & Planning

Construction Next Door: Your Full Menu of Options

Boundary, nuisance and planning fronts - which remedies run in parallel, and when to open each.

Process & Cost

What an Injunction Really Costs

The two prices: legal costs discussed honestly, and the undertaking as to damages nobody explains.

Process & Cost

Ex Parte Applications, Explained

Court orders without the other side present - the power, and the full-and-frank duty that polices it.

Process & Cost

How Fast Can You Get an Injunction?

The honest timeline: same-week relief exists - built from evidence, not adrenaline.

Process & Cost

Delay Kills Injunctions

The most common self-inflicted wound in urgent litigation - and what to do if you’ve already waited.

Process & Cost

The Balance of Convenience, in Plain English

From Campus Oil’s questions to Merck v Clonmel’s least-risk-of-injustice - how courts actually decide.

Reputation & Digital

Getting Online Content Taken Down

The layered playbook: platforms worked properly, demands that land, and court orders where needed.

Reputation & Digital

Finding Out Who Posted It

Norwich Pharmacal orders: unmasking anonymous accounts - and why speed decides success.

Reputation & Digital

Harassment Campaigns & the Courts

When persistent contact and posting can be restrained - and the evidence log that wins it.

Reputation & Digital

Can You Injunct Defamation Before It Publishes?

The honest answer about prior restraint - and what actually works before publication.

Reputation & Digital

Fake Reviews & Business Reputation

Review-bombing at the junction of defamation, platform policy and harassment - the realistic response.