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A powerful sketch by Nelson Mandela, The Cell Door, Robben Island, has been sold at Bonhams' modern and contemporary African art sale, in New York for $112,575. The wax pastel crayon work, which the South African revolutionary and president created in 2002, was one of the few that the statesman kept

A solicitor who refused to return a mother and daughter's passports because of a dispute over €1,500 has been told she must hand them over. Mr Justice Peter Kelly, president of the High Court, said it was "disproportionate and wholly unreasonable" to withhold the documents over such a "miniscul

Dublin solicitor Ciaran Kirwan has been elected chair of the Board of Directors of the Irish Athletic Boxing Association (IABA). Mr Kirwan, managing partner of Margetson and Greene Solicitors, has been a director of the IABA since 2015.

Dublin firm Richard Grogan & Associates has announced the appointment of Natasha Hand as an associate solicitor. Ms Hand will be working primarily in the area of employment law and personal injury work.

Family law solicitor Karen Tobin of Cork firm Comyn Kelleher Tobin (CKT) has qualified as a mediator. Ms Tobin has completed training accredited by the Mediators' Institute of Ireland (MII), which covers key skills including recognising conflict behaviours, emotional intelligence, mediation practice

New measures to protect British soldiers and veterans from prosecution for their actions abroad should eventually be extended to Northern Ireland, Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt has said. The proposals, announced yesterday, will see British soldiers protected from investigation over their actions

Coleraine-based Macaulay Wray Solicitors has appointed Miriam Harte as an associate in the firm's litigation department. Ms Harte, originally from Ballymena, specialises in road traffic and personal injury cases, as well as having a keen interest in family law.

OSM Partners has announced the appointment of Andrew Croughan as partner and head of personal insolvency, and Raymond Lambe as partner in the firm's corporate and commercial litigation department. Mr Croughan has over 10 years’ experience in the area of commercial litigation, dispute resolutio

Naomi Gaston, senior associate and head of banking and finance at Mills Selig, considers how businesses can protect themselves from the impact of "fake news" and rumours. Customers queued earlier this month to withdraw cash and personal items from safety deposit boxes from Metro Bank. The queues at

Co Kildare firm Moloney & Co Solicitors has announced a formal partnership with Greek law firm Pavlakis-Moschos & Associates to provide support to Irish people injured in Greece. Pavlakis-Moschos is an international travel law firm operating for 40 years in the centre of the commercial and l

Dozens of law firms, legal practitioners and in-house legal teams across Ireland have been named as finalists ahead of the 2019 Irish Law Awards. Now in their eighth year, the awards aim to identify, honour and publicise outstanding achievements, while also recognising individuals who have dedicated

Barristers heard from cervical cancer patient Vicky Phelan and rape survivor Leona O'Callaghan at a landmark conference on the experience of plaintiffs and victims in pursuit of access to justice through the legal system in Ireland. The Bar of Ireland's chairman's conference, "Laws & Effect", to

The Law Society of Ireland has helped nearly 100 solicitors return to work after an extended period of leave in the past three years. A total of 93 solicitors from across the country have completed the Returners Programme, which the Law Society has run four times since 2016.

The number of cybercrime prosecutions in the UK represents less than one per cent of reported incidents, despite their increase in the past year. The latest data show there were 17,900 reported cases of computer hacking in 2018, up 74 per cent from 13,200 in 2017. The most commonly reported types we

A former UK Supreme Court judge has criticised the "mission creep" of the European Convention on Human Rights and suggested that the UK could be forced to withdraw from the nearly 70-year-old convention. Lord Sumption, 70, said that "intensely political questions" had been reclassified by the ECHR a