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The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has been granted leave from the High Court to join as amicus curiae a case centred on human trafficking and other severe forms of labour exploitation on the Irish fishing fleet. The case centres on the request from the International Transport Worker's F

A workshop in Dublin is set to consider the extent to which language and translation may affect the work of Advocates General (AGs) of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). Dr Karen McAuliffe of the University of Birmingham, principal investigator on the European Research Council-funded

O'Flynn Exhams Solicitors recently acted on behalf of a receiver on the €15 million sale by NAMA of a prime Cork Docklands site. Aeibhin Cahalan, partner in the firm's real estate team, led on the sale, which involved the transfer of the entire Docklands site to a sole purchaser for developmen

DCU Law Society has welcomed four new members to its committee following a successful EGM.

Clare Curran, partner and head of the matrimonial department at Worthingtons Solicitors in Belfast, writes on how divorce awards are determined. One aspect of divorce that surprises many clients when they come to discuss a marriage breakdown is how bad behaviour on the part of their spouse, perhaps

The Law Commission in England and Wales has been asked to consider whether misandry (hatred of men) should be brought under hate crime legislation. The UK government has expanded the remit of the review launched last month in response to calls to consider making misogyny a hate crime.

A Northern Ireland man has been hospitalised after he allegedly tried to steal a diamond ring – by swallowing it. Ian Campbell, 54 from Newry, is accused of gulping down the £30,000 gem in a jewellery shop after he initially tried to leave with it clenched in his fist.

In response to three questions referred to the High Court in relation to the admissibility of an involuntary statement made pursuant to s. 107(4) of the Road Traffic Act 1961, Mr Justice Donald Binchy has concluded that a statement made by an accused person in response to a demand made by a garda pu

Tralee firm Pierse McCarthy Lucey Solicitors has appointed Alex Hoffman to the firm as an associate solicitor, TraleeToday.ie reports. Mr Hoffman graduated from the University of Limerick in 2003 and qualified as a solicitor in 2006.

The Law Society of Ireland has said it will not take disciplinary action against two solicitors referred to it by the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB), the Sunday Independent reports. Information on the two solicitors was passed on to the regulatory body out of concern about the work they carried out fo

Prominent Northern Ireland barristers Brett Lockhart QC and Gregory McGuigan QC were yesterday ordained as Catholic deacons at a ceremony in St Peter's Cathedral. The lawyers, alongside seven other men, are the first permanent deacons ordained for service in the Diocese of Down and Connor.

A three-year project backed by the Adoption Rights Alliance, Justice for Magdalenes Research and global law firm Hogan Lovells has published its final report on forced adoptions and related historical abuses in Ireland. The Clann Project's 154-page report, Ireland's Unmarried Mothers and their Child

Dr Brian Barry, lecturer at DIT School of Law, writes on the importance of an appointments process that protects the independence of the judiciary. The appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court thrust the process for appointing judges to that court into the international spotlight. Asid