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A convicted fraudster escaped jail - for a while - by booking a flying lesson and asking the instructor to let him off in France. Jamie Colwell, 51, hatched the scheme to flee the UK after he and his father, Brian, were convicted of a £1 million VAT scam.

A man who left school at the age of 15 to work on the family farm, and who was promised a 90 acre plot by both his father and mother before their deaths, has successfully challenged his mother's will in which he was left just three acres after a family rift involving his in-laws. Finding that the ma

Cork solicitor Patrick Dorgan, a partner at Ronan Daly Jermyn, has taken office as president of the Law Society of Ireland for 2018/19. The property lawyer has served on the Council of the Law Society for nearly two decades and has served on most of its committees.

Lawyers at Belfast firm Davidson McDonnell have celebrated a period of expansion for the firm with an office warming party at its new headquarters.

A government minister has said a constitutional amendment may be brought forward by Cabinet to allow the Oireachtas to legislate on compensation claims. Last week, the Personal Injuries Assessment Board (PIAB) published figures showing it awarded over €20,000 on average in whiplash cases in the

The Law Reform Commission (LRC) will launch a review of Irish divorce laws later this year, the Sunday Independent reports. It will consider "whether further guidance would be possible as to what amounts to ‘proper provision’ on divorce and how this might assist couples to avoid adversar

A solicitor has alleged that she was subjected to discriminatory remarks in tribunal proceedings because she is "a woman and a black African". Ashimedua Okonkwo, who was admitted to practice as a solicitor in Ireland in 2013 and holds a master's degree from TCD School of Law, told the High Court tha

An inquest into the 1971 Ballymurphy massacre has opened before presiding coroner Ms Justice Siobhan Keegan in Belfast. The next two weeks of hearings will hear evidence regarding the killing of nine men and one woman over three days in August 1971.

Elaine Motion, executive chairman at Scottish law firm Balfour+Manson, writes on the significance of language in the Article 50 case currently before the Scottish courts. Language is critical in politics and the law, not least in the unfolding political and legal machinations of the Brexit process.

Tracey Schofield, commercial property partner at A&L Goodbody, was named Best in Professional Services at the recent Women In Business Awards 2018.

Retired police officer Kevin Hyland has been elected as Ireland's representative on the Council of Europe’s Group of Experts on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) from next year. Mr Hyland will succeed Professor Siobhán Mullally of UCC School of Law at the end of her sec

Pinsent Masons has been reappointed as the sole advisor to UK energy company E.ON UK until 2023. It marks the second time that the international law firm, with offices in Belfast and Dublin, has been appointed as as E.ON UK's sole legal advisor under a five year agreement. The 2013 deal was one of t

An 87-year-old man has finished a second set of exams in his bid to become a lawyer. Ibarra Mariano, a retired Filipino police officer, is the oldest of around 8,700 people sitting the bar in the Philippines this year.

A former councillor who received €80,000 in allegedly corrupt payments from a developer has had his convictions quashed by a 4:1 majority in the Supreme Court. Finding that the reverse burden of proof imposed on the accused to disprove the allegation the payments were corrupt was a "clear inroa

McCay Solicitors has announced the appointment of solicitors Eleanor McFeeters and Aaron Mullen in the firm's Derry and Strabane offices.