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A lawyer who defrauded clients of almost £2 million (around €2.3m) after falling for a lottery scam has been jailed for four years. Scammers convinced Norwich solicitor Hugh Lansdell, 74, that he had won a postcode lottery in Spain but needed to hand over increasing amounts of cash to acc

The Dublin Solicitors Bar Association (DSBA) criminal law committee has published practical guidance for solicitors ahead of the one-day barristers' strike next week. The committee acknowledges "the support solicitors may wish to extend to their barrister colleagues" and provides "advice which may b

Belfast-based Madden & Finucane Solicitors has promoted Lynn Day to director and head of the firm's expanding civil litigation department. Ms Day joined Madden & Finucane in 2011 and specialises in all aspects of civil litigation, with particular expertise in personal injury claims.

Northern Ireland firm Wilson Nesbitt has announced seven senior appointments, including a new partner and two new senior associates.

Sofiya Kalinova has become the first Deaf person to qualify as a barrister in Ireland and the first to practice law in Irish Sign Language (ISL). A graduate of University College Dublin and the King's Inns, Ms Kalinova was called to the Bar by Chief Justice Donal O'Donnell yesterday.

The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Equifax Ltd more than £11 million for failing to manage and monitor the security of UK consumer data it had outsourced to its parent company based in the US. The breach allowed hackers to access the personal data of millions of people and ex

The imprisonment of a 45-year-old woman in England who admitted to causing her own abortion during the lockdowns was “unlikely” to be just, senior judges have said. Carla Foster was given a 28-month prison term after obtaining tablets when she was between 32 and 34 weeks pregnant.

This small book, with a big title, is commendable in several ways: it shows quite how many courts or tribunals and different types of case a member of the Bar, in the author’s generation at least, might have had to deal with. The nature and extent of the pressing political and legal issues tha

Northern Ireland firm Millar McCall Wylie has appointed Jason Byrne as director with a focus on growing its insolvency services. A highly-specialised solicitor with years of experience in dealing with corporate and personal insolvency in Northern Ireland, Mr Byrne joins from a national firm where he

William Fry partner Leo Moore and senior associate Rachel Hayes consider a recent European judgment with significance for data anonymisation. A recent decision of the European General Court has shifted the goalposts for data anonymisation.

A&L Goodbody LLP (ALG) has launched its first Pro Bono Impact Report. The report details the breadth of free legal work undertaken by the firm and the positive impact it has on its pro bono clients. The launch of this report coincides with European Pro Bono Week 2024 – a celebration of vol

The High Court has refused leave to furnish to actor Dany Boon’s Monégasque lawyers unopened affidavits filed in his Irish fraud proceedings, which were intended for transmission to the instructing judge in a related criminal investigation in Monaco. Delivering judgment for the High Cou

UCC law students Caitlin Ong and Chidindu Ukah have each been awarded a diversity scholarship worth €5,000 and a work placement opportunity with RDJ. The RDJ Diversity Scholarship, which commenced in 2021, supports students from ethnically diverse backgrounds studying law at UCC, with the aim o

Callan Tansey Solicitors has appointed Scarlett Griffin O'Sullivan as a senior associate and head of the firm's Limerick office. The appointment marks Ms O'Sullivan's return to the firm where she originally trained as a solicitor in the mid-2000s.

Solicitors can now avail of individual psychotherapy at a discounted rate through the Law Society of Ireland's LegalMind service. From today, LegalMind has entered a new partnership with the charity Clanwilliam Institute to offer access to accredited psychotherapists at a reduced rate.