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Joanne Finn: Google “Ads” the cost of another fine – do competition regulators agree on digital markets?
Joanne Finn looks at the latest fine imposed on search giant Google and how such decisions are affecting market regulation.
Published 26 March 2019
John Dugdale: Landmark housing ruling reinforces need to consider contracts in full
John Dugdale, associate at A&L Goodbody in Belfast, writes on a landmark court ruling Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) ruling.
Published 22 March 2019
Lisa Quinn O'Flaherty: Lawyers can also help to solve our climate crisis
Lisa Quinn O'Flaherty, solicitor at Fitzsimons Redmond and a Climate Ambassador for Irish environmental charity An Taisce, writes for Irish Legal News on how lawyers can help to solve our climate crisis.
Published 21 March 2019
Professor Thom Brooks: Bercow's Brexit decision is legally correct
Thom Brooks, Dean and professor of law and government at Durham Law School, writes on the latest development in the Brexit saga.
Published 19 March 2019
Irish Legal Heritage: Rosemary Nelson
Twenty years ago today, on Monday 15 March 1999, human rights lawyer Rosemary Nelson was murdered by loyalist paramilitaries. A bomb had been attached to the underneath of her car, and detonated when she pressed the brakes as she reached the bottom of the road from her home as she drove to her office in Lurgan.
Published 15 March 2019
International Women’s Day 2019 – Balance for Better
Cathy Smith, a barrister practising in employment and company law and a committee member of the Irish Women Lawyers Association (IWLA), writes for Irish Legal News on International Women's Day 2019.
Published 8 March 2019
Irish Legal Heritage: Maud Gonne and The Famine Queen
Having witnessed evictions in 1885 which she described as the “wholesale destruction of the little houses of the people”, Maud Gonne said this “changed the whole course” of her life, transforming her from a “carefree society girl into a woman of set purpose”, determined to free Ireland from the British Empire.
Published 8 March 2019
Laura Keogh: The compatibility of the Public Services Card with the EU GDPR
Barrister Laura L. Keogh, author of Data Protection Compliance: A Guide to GDPR and Irish Data Protection Law, writes for Irish Legal News on the Public Services Card (PSC) - which contains an individual's name, signature, PPS number, card number and facial image - and its compatibility with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Published 7 March 2019
Dr Tom Hickey: Spectre of litigation hovers over parliamentarians after Kerins judgment
Dr Tom Hickey, assistant professor at DCU School of Law and Government, reflects on the Supreme Court's recent judgment in Kerins v McGuinness & Ors [2019] IESC 11.
Published 4 March 2019
Dr Geraldine O'Hare: The Enhanced Combination Order in Northern Ireland
Dr Geraldine O'Hare, director of rehabilitation at the Probation Board for Northern Ireland, writes on the success of the Enhanced Combination Order pilot.
Published 1 March 2019
Irish Legal Heritage: The imprisonment of Ladies Land Leaguer Hannah Reynolds
On 23 December 1881, 21-year-old Hannah Reynolds was sentenced at the Petty Sessions court to 28 days in Cork gaol for her work with the Ladies Land League.
Published 1 March 2019
Alison Cassidy: Latest personal injury guidelines a significant one-off change
Alison Cassidy, partner at BLM in Belfast, examines the latest personal injury guidelines for Northern Ireland.
Published 27 February 2019
Richard Grogan: Do you bring a Payment of Wages Act claim or a breach of contract claim?
Employment law solicitor Richard Grogan of Richard Grogan & Associates writes on an anomaly as to whether wages claims should be brought in the Workplace Relations Commission and Labour Court or in the main Irish courts.
Published 25 February 2019
Jason O'Sullivan: Was the Brexit timeline always unrealistic? Back in 1982, it took Greenland three years to leave
Jason O'Sullivan, principal and founder of J.O.S Solicitors, compares the Brexit timetable to the time taken to negotiate Greenland's exit from the EEC.
Published 22 February 2019
Irish Legal Heritage: The Civic Guard and An Garda Síochána
After the Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed on 6 December 1921, the Provisional Government began the process of disbanding the Royal Irish Constabulary. In February 1922, Michael Collins began to recruit for the Civic Guard, which would later be named An Garda Síochána – “the guardian of the peace”.
Published 22 February 2019
