Joanelle O'Cleirigh

AC Arthur Cox More Arthur Cox is one of Ireland’s leading law firms. For almost 100 years, we have been at the forefront of developments in the legal profession in Ireland. Our practice encompasses all aspects of corporate and business law. The firm has offices in Dublin, Belfast, London, New York and Silicon Valley.

Atlantic Endeavour Ltd and SMBR Ltd v Office of Public Works ("OPW") [2025] IEHC 324 addressed the complex issue of assessing the adequacy of damages in an application to lift an automatic suspension, in light of the nature of Francovich damages, which require a tenderer to establish that there is a "sufficiently serious" breach of public procurement law. The OPW held a competition described as a services concession to allocate landing permits at Skellig Michael.

On 21 March 2025, the European Commission published a study on Mapping Third Party Litigation Funding in the European Union (PDF, 6.3MB) (the "Study"). The Study stems from the adoption by the European Parliament of a resolution on responsible private funding of litigation on 13 September 2022, urging the European Commission to propose legislation regulating third-party litigation funding in the EU.