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The absence of devolved government in Northern Ireland has left human rights "trapped in political limbo", Amnesty International has warned. The human rights group has released a statement to mark the two-year anniversary of the collapse of the Northern Ireland Assembly in 2017.

Mears has been awarded a 10-year government contract to provide accommodation and support for asylum seekers in Northern Ireland. The housing and care services provider will also house and support service users in Scotland, North East England and Yorkshire and the Humber.

Magic Circle firms have overtaken US firms in the UK league table for mergers and acquisitions, The Times reports. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, with 60 deals worth $144.4 billion over the past year, led the latest Mergermarket league table compiled for Legal Week, followed by Slaughter and May, H

A motorist was arrested on New Year's Day after a roadside drug test showed a positive result – for all five detectable drugs. The 31-year-old man showed a positive result for the ingestion of cocaine, methamphetamine, opiates, cannabis and amphetamines.

A woman who was the foster mother of a baby with serious health issues has had her application for judicial review dismissed in the High Court. The child, who weighed only 720gms at birth, was in the care of the foster mother for over a year when the decision was made to place the child with the cou

Tully Rinckey Ireland has announced the appointment of Thomas O'Malley as the firm's inaugural managing partner, as well as Grainne Loughnane as a real estate partner. Mr O'Malley, who joins from McDowell Purcell, is the first person to serve in the top role following the firm opening its doors in D

William Fry has announced the appointment of New York lawyer Lyn Brennan as a partner to the firm's banking & finance department. Ms Brennan joins from Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP in New York, where she has worked for the last four years. Prior to this, she worked in Dublin with A&am

EU law expert Professor Tobias Lock has joined Maynooth University Department of Law from Edinburgh Law School. He worked at the Scottish university as a lecturer and then senior lecturer in EU law from 2013-18, having previously lectured at University College London, the University of Surrey and th

Representatives of the Law Society of Northern Ireland attended the swearing in of their former president, Mr Justice Ian Huddleston, as a High Court judge. The Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, Sir Declan Morgan, yesterday swore in the judge, a former Council member and chairperson of the Law

Armagh solicitor Ian Dawson, principal partner at Ian Dawson & Co Solicitors, has passed away. The Law Society of Northern Ireland has extended its condolences to his family, friend and colleagues.

The Garden of Remembrance in Dublin is to be given statutory protection under the Planning and Development Act 2000, The Times reports. Dublin City Council will add the memorial garden, which commemorates those who died fighting for Irish freedom, to its record of protected structures.

The number of people killed in work-related accidents fell by 23 per cent to the lowest level in nearly two decades last year. New figures from the Health and Safety Authority reveal that 37 people were killed in work-related accidents in 2018, the lowest figure since the establishment of the author

Cork solicitor Catherine Kirwan is set to launch her new crime novel, Darkest Truth, in Cork next Thursday. The #MeToo-themed thriller follows a solicitor called Finn Fitzpatrick who is approached by a man to investigate his daughter's suspicious suicide, believing that she was groomed and abused by

“No negligence where the doctors disagree” used to be the approach of the courts to expert evidence in medical cases. That deference has eroded in recent years.

The US Navy has finally abandoned an archaic practice of locking misbehaving sailors in the brig with only bread and water. The so-called bread-and-water punishment was scrapped by the British Navy in 1891, but has only come to an end in the US as of the start of 2019.