Northern Ireland firm Wilson Nesbitt has appointed Neil Cahill as partner and head of dispute resolution. Mr Cahill joins from Fieldfisher in Dublin, where he was director of the litigation and dispute resolution team. Prior to that, he was head of disputes for UK and EMEA within ALT at Herbert Smit

Northern Ireland's Labour Relations Agency (LRA) has strengthened its independent appeals hearing service with a new governance framework and 16 new panel chairs. The independent appeals service is one of a suite of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) services provided by the LRA, mostly to organis

Lewis Silkin NI partner Rory Campbell considers the latest situation around AI regulation in Northern Ireland. Last week the European Commission proposed that Northern Ireland should have to comply with EU laws regulating AI systems.

Solicitor Catherine Chambers has been appointed to the board of Northern Ireland's Education Authority (EA). Mrs Chambers has over 20 years' experience as a solicitor with specialist educational law experience, having worked as a partner in private practice and subsequently as a solicitor in the Edu

The Irish Journal of European Law has issued a call for papers for its 2025 edition. Published since 1992, the journal welcomes submissions on all areas of European law, including EU law and European law in the wider sense.

Trainee solicitors from the Law Society of Ireland have emerged as winners of the 2025 Corn Adomnáin, the annual international humanitarian law (IHL) competition hosted by the Irish Red Cross. This year's competition involved 11 teams representing Queen's University Belfast, University Colleg

Three Irish trainee solicitors have won a prize at the prestigious InterNational Academy of Dispute Resolution (INADR) 2025 mediation competition in Tbilisi, Georgia. DLA Piper's Gráinne Ní Fhrighil, William Fry's Kate Lyttle and Dillon Eustace's Cian McAllister were named as Best Clie

The Hibernian Law Journal has again extended its submission deadline for inclusion in Volume 24. The new submission deadline is Monday 14 April 2025.

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

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

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

Barristers appearing in the most serious criminal cases in Northern Ireland are effectively being asked to do twice the work for half the pay they were getting two decades ago, the chairperson of the Bar of Northern Ireland has told Irish Legal News. Donal Lunny KC, who took up office in September,