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Italy failed to provide proper legal representation to Amanda Knox, the American woman acquitted in 2015 of killing her British housemate, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. It ordered the Italian authorities to pay €18,400 in damages and legal costs.

BLM has become the first law firm to officially sign up to the Inclusive Behaviours in Insurance Pledge, an initiative set up by Lloyd’s of London and Zurich to demonstrate the insurance industry’s commitment to creating a “culture where inclusive behaviours become the norm and whe

A&L Goodbody is offering first and second year law students the opportunity to spend a day at its office to experience what life is like at the firm. Its LawStart Days are designed to give students an insight into the firm and to help them decide if a career in corporate law is right for them.

Parents are hiring muscular men at a cost of between $450 and $1,790 a day – to protect their kids from bullies. The "uncles" come in different packages, the basic one provides a man in his 30s or 40s who will reportedly walk with the pupil to and from school while repelling bullies.

In divorce proceedings which began in 2002, the Supreme Court has ordered that the ex-husband should receive 25% of his pension fund and the ex-wife should receive 75%. The ex-husband had appealed the original apportionment in which his ex-wife had been awarded 80% of the fund, valued at around &eur

The Irish Government is failing to satisfy its "human rights obligations" by protecting its citizens from the effects of climate change, the High Court in Dublin was told. At the opening of a case against the State, the "devastating consequences" of climate change were explained to the court, The Ir

ByrneWallace has announced the continued expansion of the firm’s reputation management and crisis management teams with the appointment of new partner and corporate litigator Mark O’Shaughnessy.    Mr O’Shaughnessy specialises in advising Irish and international companies

The Court of Appeal has ruled that a company selling free-range eggs is entitled to a permanent injunction restraining a competitor from passing off their goods. The three-judge court today overturned a 2016 High Court ruling that Galway Free Range Eggs Ltd, which sells eggs under the "Galway Free R

The European Commission has fined Mastercard €570 million for limiting the possibility for merchants to benefit from better conditions offered by banks established elsewhere in the Single Market, in breach of EU antitrust rules. Mastercard is the second largest card scheme in the European

The speed and frequency of how businesses communicate has evolved significantly over the last 20 years. Multiple emails, SMS and WhatsApp messages have replaced the traditional letter. This has had a considerable impact on the costs and resources now involved in complying with a discovery request in

The annual International Criminal Court Summer School at the Irish Centre for Human Rights takes place between 24-28 June 2019.

The Irish Examiner has profiled solicitor and author Catherine Kirwan, whose novel Darkest Truth, has just been published. Ms Kirwan reflects on how she set up a reading group to study James Joyce's Ulysses and prepared reports on each meeting, which proved a gateway into writing fiction.

A presentation was held at Comyn Kelleher Tobin's offices in Cork this week to the employee’s 2018 chosen charity Cork City Children's Hospital Club following fundraising initiatives by CKT staff over the last year. Members of the CKT CSR committee including Sarah Kelleher, HR manager at CKT,

The courts system is in chaos following a major computer outage that has lasted for days.

A lawyer who twice forged her transcript in an attempt to land her dream job has been struck off. Jaya Anil Kumar, 30, doctored the transcript for her law degree from the National University of Singapore (NUS) when applying to the Singapore Legal Service in 2013.