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THE MINISTER FOR Justice signed a Statutory Instrument on the 18 January 2016 commencing certain provisions of The Children and Family Relationships Act 2015. It brings some big changes. This Act radically overhauls the existing Guardianship of Infants Act which is the underpinning legislation in bringing applications before the District Court seeking access, custody and guardianship. The most [...]
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03 Feb '16
Conduit/BT, operators of Irelands Emergency Call Answering Service (ECAS) have introduced a new ‘Toilet Break Policy’ which seeks to monitor 999 operators visits to the bathroom. In essence, operators will now have to ask for management permission to use the toilet. That wonderful old Irish euphemism “An bhfuil cead agam dul amach” comes to mind. [...]
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In a case before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, judges ruled that a company may read an employee’s messages transmitted on Yahoo Messenger while he was at work. The ruling said the man, an engineer in Romania, had breached company policy and his employer had a right to monitor his [...]
