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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.

Three members of the Sports Law Bar Association of Ireland have been appointed to the editorial board of LawInSport. Barristers Robert McTernaghan, Tim O'Connor and David Casserly have joined the knowledge hub's global team.

The former Advocate General for Northern Ireland has warned that Brexit risks undermining the rule of law in Northern Ireland if the UK government doesn't change course. Dominic Grieve, Attorney General for England and Wales and Advocate General for Northern Ireland from May 2010 to July 2014, made

A not-for-profit scheme aimed at helping older homeowners rent out part of their house has thanked the Public Interest Law Alliance (PILA) and Arthur Cox for providing pro bono legal assistance. The Abhaile Project aims to help older homeowners modify their family-sized homes to create a new rental

Draft legislation to reform the guardian ad litem service is currently "being finalised" by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs. The Government's Child Care (Amendment) Bill will set out the role and function of a guardian ad litem in child care proceedings, as well as the minimum qualifica

A bid by the UK government to appeal to the UK Supreme Court over the Article 50 referral has been rejected by judges in Edinburgh. Lawyers for the government argued that the Court of Session had erred in allowing the case to be referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union after it rejecte

Lawyers for two Northern Ireland journalists arrested following the release of their documentary No Stone Unturned have questioned the legal basis of the arrest after it emerged the Police Ombudsman had not made a complaint of theft against them. Barry McCaffrey and Trevor Birney were arrested in Au

A woman has settled with An tArd Chláraitheoir, the Registrar General, after suing over its refusal to record her child's father's surname on the boy's birth certificate without the father's consent. The woman, an African asylum seeker who has been in Ireland since 2014, wanted the child to l

Belfast firm Francis Hanna & Co Solicitors have raised over £13,000 for cancer charities in memory of the firm's late partner, Gerry Daly.

Human rights group Amnesty International has highlighted 20 important cases involving the Human Rights Act 1998 to mark 20 years since it received royal assent. Kate Allen, Amnesty's UK director, called the Act "the unsung hero of UK life" and hit out at threats from politicians to remove or re

Dublin solicitor Wendy Lyon examines the new book by sex workers and activists Juno Mac and Molly Smith ahead of its Irish launch events in Cork tonight and Dublin tomorrow. From its striking cover – designed to resemble the outside of a Soho sex shop – and provocatively punny title, one