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The Law Reform Commission has made over 200 recommendations to crack down on corporate wrong-doing in the wake of the banking crisis. A major two-part report on regulatory powers and corporate offences will be officially launched by Attorney General Séamus Woulfe this evening.

A private members' bill to make perjury a statutory offence will be debated in the Oireachtas later today. The Perjury and Related Offences Bill 2018, introduced by Senator Pádraig Ó Céidigh last week, provides for prison sentences of up to seven years for perjurers.

A&L Goodbody has urged Northern Ireland businesses to "act now to start preparing for Brexit", in spite of uncertainty about the shape of the Brexit deal. The law firm issued the warning at a Brexit breakfast in Belfast this afternoon, hosted in partnership with the NI Chamber of Commerce &

The absence of political leadership in Northern Ireland is standing in the way of progress towards ending paramilitarism, the Independent Reporting Commission (IRC) has said. The body, set up under the Fresh Start Agreement in 2015, has published its first report, which notes that paramilitarism "re

Mr Justice Kevin Cross will open a CPD event on breast cancer litigation in Dublin next week in aid of the Marie Keating Foundation. The event, taking place next Thursday 1 November, 1.30pm-5.30pm in the Distillery Building, has been organised by barrister Doireann O'Mahony and will hear from a rang

The top UK law firms have seen their profit margins shrink for a fourth consecutive year, according to new research by PwC. The PwC Law Firms' Survey 2018 reports that profit margins at the top 10 firms have fallen to 36.6 per cent, down from 36.9 per cent in 2017 and 40 per cent in 2014.

Ulster University has launched a video briefing on Northern Ireland's abortion laws ahead of a Westminster debate on decriminalisation later today.

A coalition of rights groups has called on the UK government to make sure that migrant women are protected by the forthcoming Domestic Violence Bill for England and Wales. The Step Up Migrant Women (SUMW) Coalition has called for a "system of full confidentiality and protection for all migrant women

Infringements on freedom of religion indicate the early signs of violent conflict, a United Nations special rapporteur has said. Speaking at an event in New York on the importance of the freedom of religion acting as an overall indicator of human rights protections, Ahmed Shaheed said

Authorities in northern India have come under pressure to prosecute a troop of monkeys who stoned a man to death. Dharampal Singh, 72, was pelted with bricks and stones by the aggressive simians and later died in hospital.

The question of vires has been remitted to the High Court for re-argument in judicial review proceedings. Finding that, although alluded to, the specific argument of vires had not been raised in the High Court, Mr Justice John MacMenamin said that the High Court judge’s determination that the

Students at the University of Limerick will have the opportunity to learn how to design, build and test digital legal solutions following a new partnership with Neota Logic, sponsored by McCann FitzGerald. From spring 2019, students will learn how to use the Neota Logic System, a no-code development

Mason Hayes & Curran has said a lack of improvement on diversity in the Irish aviation sector is "a cause for concern". The law firm's annual survey of the aviation sector indicated that women still struggle to progress to senior leadership positions and very few employees are from a minority or

Data retention laws in Ireland must be revised with "urgency", Ms Justice Marie Baker of the Court of Appeal has warned. The designated judge for the Interception of Postal Packets and Telecommunications Messages (Regulation) Act 1993 and Communications (Retention of Data) Act 2011 issued the call a