With less than three weeks to go, the Law Society is encouraging all legal professionals to continue to register for Calcutta Run charity partners, Dublin Simon Community and the HOPE Foundation.

Britain’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Stg £750,000 for a data breach last year in which the ...

Figures on the Enduring Power of Attorney (EPA) system shared by the Decision Support Service (DSS) are significantly misleading, the Law Society has said. The DSS has reported that 3,000 ...

Solicitor Jeanne Kelly, founding partner at Browne Jacobson Ireland, has been elected president of the British Irish Chamber of Commerce at its AGM (26 September). Kelly previously served as the ...

Byrne Wallace Shields LLP has set up a Canada trade desk, with experienced lawyers providing Canadian businesses with comprehensive cross-border legal services to invest in and trade with Europe. Led ...

Cabinet approval for 20 additional judges to be appointed on a phased basis has been secured. The Judicial Planning Working Group (JPWG) report recommended the appointment of 44 additional judges in ...

A secular ceremony in the Round Hall of the Four Courts for the opening of the new legal year was addressed by Chief Justice Donal O’Donnell and Attorney General Rossa Fanning (2 October). The Chief ...

The Government has approved a plan for Ireland to intervene in South Africa’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) case against Israel under the Genocide Convention. Filing of the intervention will ...

The Courts Service is to extend its new appointment-booking service to the Dublin Circuit Family Law Office from Tuesday 19 March. From that date onwards, appointments must be scheduled in advance of ...

Catherine Guy has recently stepped down as ByrneWallace’s managing partner after over six years at the helm and – as she draws the 29-year association with the firm she joined as a newly qualified ...

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that Ireland failed to fulfil some of its obligations under an EU directive on natural habitats. The Habitats Directive required Ireland to ...

There is no right to assisted dying under European human-rights law, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled by a 6-1 majority (13 June). The judgment states ...