Editing Champerty and maintenance (section)

===Ireland===
The [[Maintenance and Embracery Act 1634]] passed by the [[Parliament of Ireland]] provides that "all statutes heretofore made in England concerning maintenance, champerty and [[embracery]], or any of them now standing and being in their full strength and force, shall be put in due execution in this realme of Ireland".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1634/act/15/enacted/en/html|title=Maintenance and Embracery Act, 1634|work=[[Irish Statute Book]]|access-date=21 April 2016}}</ref> [[Poynings' Law (confirmation of English statutes)|Poynings' Law]] had already imported all English statutes up to 1495; the 1634 act additionally imported the [[Maintenance and Embracery Act 1540]]. The 1634 and 1540 acts are still in force in the [[Republic of Ireland]].<ref name="rte783117">{{cite news|url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2016/0420/783117-court-persona-digital-telephony/|title=Case against State, O'Brien, Lowry will be dropped|date=20 April 2016|publisher=[[RTÉ]]|access-date=21 April 2016}}</ref> In 2015 Persona Digital Telephony Ltd and Sigma Wireless Networks Ltd, which lost to [[Esat Digifone]] in a 1997 telecoms bidding process [[Moriarty Tribunal#Volume II|criticised by the Moriarty Tribunal]], applied to launch [[Persona Digital Telephony Ltd v Minister for Public Enterprise, Ireland|a lawsuit against those involved in the 1997 bidding]], to be funded by a UK company, Harbour Litigation Funding, in return for part of any damages awarded.<ref name="rte783117" /><ref name="rte743615">{{cite web|url=http://www.rte.ie/news/business/2015/1118/743615-courts-esat/|title=Application for funding agreement in licence case|date=18 November 2015|publisher=[[RTÉ]]|access-date=21 April 2016}}</ref> In 2016, the [[High Court (Ireland)|High Court]] ruled that such [[third-party funding]] constituted champerty prohibited by the 1634 act; Persona said it would have to drop the case, being unable to afford the [[Euro|€]]10m expenses.<ref name="rte783117" /><ref name="rte743615" />