William Fry Defends Tesco Project; EU Reshapes Digital Regulations
William Fry LLP has successfully defended a judicial review challenge to the planning permission for a new Tesco store, drive-thru café, and petrol station in Cavan town on climate grounds. Meanwhile, the EU is reshaping digital regulations and the High Court has applied new principles on delay in claims management.
The law firm William Fry LLP has successfully defended a judicial review challenge to the planning permission for a new Tesco store, drive-thru café, and petrol station in Cavan town. The challenge was based on climate grounds, but the firm's efforts have ensured the project can proceed.
In other news, the EU is rapidly reshaping how organisations build, deploy, and scale technology with a suite of new digital regulations. The European Commission has settled its Code of Practice for General-Purpose AI Models, covering transparency, safety and security, and copyright. The CRU has also opened a consultation on funding for ESB and EirGrid under PR6, inviting stakeholder submissions until 11 September 2025. Additionally, the European Commission has released guidelines under the Digital Services Act, setting a new benchmark for child safety online for all online platforms accessible to minors.
William Fry's report on M&A activity during the first six months of 2025 notes an increase in deal volume despite a volatile geopolitical and macroeconomic backdrop. The High Court has applied the reformulated principles on delay established in the SC decision in Kirwan v Connors in two judgments of particular interest for litigants and practitioners managing claims where no steps have been taken in several years. Furthermore, the decision in Bartz v Anthropic PBC may be the most significant U.S. ruling yet on whether artificial intelligence developers can lawfully use copyright-protected works to train their models. The European Commission has also proposed reforms to the EU securitisation framework to address specific impediments to bond issuance and (non-bank) investment.
The successful defence of the Tesco project in Cavan town by William Fry LLP paves the way for the development to proceed. Meanwhile, the EU's digital regulations and the High Court's application of new delay principles are set to have significant impacts on various sectors.
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