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Barrister Denise Hunt BEM has been appointed as a non-executive member to the Northern Ireland Social Care Council (NISCC). Ms Hunt has been appointed as a non-executive lay member for a four-year term ending no later than 18 May 2029.

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Derville Rowland, deputy governor for consumer and investor protection at the Central Bank of Ireland, has been appointed to the executive board of the EU's newly-established Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA). Ms Rowland, a qualified barrister, will leave the Central Bank in order to take up th

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A&L Goodbody has appointed Clare Cashin as a partner in its construction and engineering practice. Ms Cashin has over 20 years’ experience advising on construction law. She specialises in dispute resolution in relation to construction and infrastructure projects both in the private an

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Holmes has announced two promotions in the firm's insurance defence litigation and employment units. Tríona Walsh has been promoted to of counsel specialising in insurance litigation, while Ed Kelly has been promoted to associate solicitor specialising in employment litigation.

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Justin Kouame has been reappointed to the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission for a further three-year term. Mr Kouame was formerly chair of the Northern Ireland Community of Refugees and Asylum Seekers and member of the Northern Ireland Race Equality Sub-Group and Northern Ireland Council for

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The Law Society of Northern Ireland has held the first in a planned series of "legal townhall" events aimed at bringing together local solicitors and elected representatives to talk about challenges facing the legal profession and the communities it serves.

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Northern Ireland lawyer Aine Tyrrell considers the circumstances in which a public inquiry is justified. Since the start of this century, the public in Northern Ireland have become all too familiar with the role that a public inquiry can play in investigating a particular incident or set of events.

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Trinity Law School says it has received a "significant gift" from alumnus Craig Verdon to support the Trinity Centre for Constitutional Governance (TriCON). Founded in 2020, TriCON provides an intellectual hub for research, discussion, and public engagement on cutting-edge issues of constitutional l

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Human rights lawyer Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC has joined the Reuters Institute at the University of Oxford as a visiting fellow. Ms Gallagher will be a visiting fellow from April to June 2025, during which time she will focus on the pressing issue of impunity for journalists’ deaths, and on cre

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Wherever there is an Irish diaspora — and where is there not? — there will be St Patrick’s Day celebrations. This was the case earlier this month at the Hyatt Regency hotel in London when the London Irish Lawyers Association (LILA) gathered for its third annual St Patrick’s D

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Even by the standards of the bewilderingly swift advances in the social media arena, TikTok is a phenomenon. Launched in 2016, the app began its dizzying ascent to become a giant with more than 1.04 billion monthly active users, a scale of growth that took Instagram and Facebook almost a decade to a

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The nature of the law means that major modifications to the status quo come rarely and after long consideration. But while the wheel turns slowly, it’s hard to stop once in motion.  So, when October last year saw the introduction of new legal partnerships — which enable barristers a

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Recent years have seen an impressive influx of significant international law firms to Ireland. They have arrived in the country to service multinational businesses attracted to the country by seamless access to the EU post-Brexit as well as the country’s growing reputation in areas such as tec