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President Michael D. Higgins has signed into law legislation providing for access to abortion on request up to 12 weeks. The Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 comes six months after the referendum on the repeal of the Eighth Amendment and a year after its central provisions we

Aaron Moore, director at Belfast-based Cleaver Fulton Rankin Solicitors, has been recognised as Student of the Year 2018 at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators's (CIArb) annual awards.

The Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) has announced that its executive director, Deirdre Malone, will be leaving her post in February. Ms Malone, who previously worked as a barrister in private practice, has held the post since March 2014 but will now leave to take up a new opportunity. Deputy executi

Barrister-at-law students at the King's Inns have raised €2,845 for children in Direct Provision through their Christmas gift appeal.

Personal injury and road traffic accident specialists JMK Solicitors have presented cheques totalling £23,000 to their 2018 charity partners following a year-long staff fundraising programme. The first charity to benefit was Children’s Heartbeat Trust, who have been supporting families o

New drink-driving legislation introduced in 2016 is not being fully enforced in Northern Ireland because the PSNI do not have the necessary equipment, BBC News reports. The Road Traffic (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 lowered the drink-driving limit and allowed for police officers to conduct

This year marked the launch of our weekly Irish Legal Heritage feature, in which Seosamh Gráinséir looks at the people, events, laws and cases that have shaped Irish legal history. Here, we link back to all of this year's instalments. Irish Legal Heritage: The first Irish witch and her

Irish Legal News' extremely popular 'And finally...' slot enjoyed another year of bizarre and funny stories. Listed below are the 10 our readers enjoyed most. And finally… str**k off

A flight attendant who was forced to apologise on his knees to the airline chairman's daughter for serving her nuts in a bag and not on a plate has won £14,000 in compensation. Park Chang-jin was subjected to a stream of verbal abuse from Cho Hyun-ah, eldest daughter of Korean Air chairman Cho

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An accomplished GAA and rugby player who injured his knee when his foot went into a small hole beside a chamber owned by Eircom has been awarded €51,936 in the High Court. Finding that Eircom was responsible for maintaining the concrete around the chamber, Mr Justice Robert Barr was satisfied t

Dublin-based Fahy Bambury Solicitors has announced the appointment of Seán McCormack as a solicitor. Mr McCormack, who recently joined the Roll of Solicitors, will join the superior courts section of the criminal defence and human rights practice.

The Government will complete a review of the Defamation Act 2009 by April 2019, Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan announced today. The review will cover the respective roles of judge and jury in defamation cases; the defences available to the media in the context of public-interest news reporting; a

Six solicitors and four barristers have been reappointed to the Personal Insolvency Practitioners Complaints Committee panel for five years. The Department of Justice and Equality wrote to all 18 members of the inaugural panel, established under section 177 of the Personal Insolvency Act 2012, to as

The State has yet to announce if it will appeal a High Court ruling that sections of the Communications (Retention of Data) Act 2011 are inconsistent with EU law. Earlier this month, Mr Justice Tony O'Connor found that convicted murderer Graham Dwyer was entitled to certain limited declarations