Northern Ireland's family courts should apply a "presumption against contact" in cases involving domestic violence and abuse, a report has recommended.

Northern Ireland’s High Court has made declarations to the effect that an elderly woman suffering with dementia lacks capacity and can be transferred from hospital to a nursing home for continued care. Delivering judgment for the High Court of Northern Ireland in November, Mr Justice Michael H

Northern Ireland firm McCay Legal has announced a series of appointments, including the promotion of Aaron Mullen to director. The firm recently welcomed Naomi White and Mia Fox to the firm as associates in the litigation and private client teams respectively.

Northern Ireland's equality watchdog has formally lodged court proceedings seeking clarification on the implications of a landmark UK Supreme Court ruling on transgender rights. The Equality Commission previously said it would ask the Northern Ireland courts to clarify areas of "significant legal un

A new collection of papers presented at the 25th British Legal History Conference at Queen's University Belfast has been published on an open access basis. Law and Constitutional Change brings together some of the best papers presented at the conference, which examined the role that law plays when c

Professor Kim Lane Scheppele has been appointed as visiting full professor at UCD Sutherland School of Law. Professor Scheppele is the Laurance S Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Princeton University, where her work focuses on the rise and fall of constitutional democr

The University of Limerick's law school has hosted a first-of-its-kind workshop delivered by the Switzerland-based Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

The University of Galway has welcomed 19 research students to campus as part of the 2025 Hardiman PhD Scholarship. The new scholars in the College of Business, Public Policy and Law include Pratik Purswani and Amil Jafarguliyev, who are researching legal topics.

October is European Cybersecurity Month (ECSM), the EU's annual campaign dedicated to promoting cybersecurity among its citizens and organisations, and to providing current online security information. Ironically, it has coincided with Amazon Web Services (AWS) experiencing a recent major outage in

The view from Andrew McGahey’s home office south of Navan in Co Meath is an idyllic one. The vista of tranquillity that takes in the Hill of Tara and the River Boyne ends here, though — the EMEA managing partner of Kennedys Law LLP is responsible for seven offices, where daily life is di

The quest for knowledge has advanced beyond imagination in the millennia since Plato and Aristotle first proposed their theories of epistemology. For legal firms at the leading edge of meeting today’s exacting demands, ‘knowledge’ now involves a multitude of practical applications,

A solicitor who was forced out of her home by a relentless campaign of criminal harassment has urged legal professionals to break the “taboo” of speaking out about abuse. Emma Lyons, who runs a family and criminal law practice in west Belfast, joined the Law Society of Northern Ireland&r