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The Law Society of Northern Ireland has welcomed Suzanne Rice as its new president for 2018/19. Ms Rice was junior vice president in 2017/18 under outgoing president ...

A Zimbabwean woman who came to Ireland and studied law has been elected as a learner representative to the board of AONTAS, the National Adult Learning Organisation. ...

The Sports Law Bar Association of Ireland (SLBA) will hold its second sports law conference in Dublin next week, following the "fantastic" success of the all-island association's ...

The constitutional conversation in Northern Ireland has to be "de-dramatised and normalised", Professor Colin Harvey of QUB School of Law has said. Professor Harvey opened his address ...

The CEO of McCann FitzGerald's legal technology solutions business has won the Digital Transformation Award at the 2018 Women in Tech Awards. Gráinne Bryan was recognised for ...

Irish citizens are set to benefit from increased access to the US labour market under a bill passed by the lower house of the US Congress. The ...

A two-month prison sentence for a woman who opened a tube of Pringles in a supermarket without purchasing it has come under fire from penal reform campaigners. ...

A group of pro-choice legal academics have published new analysis highlighting "five priority issues" with the abortion bill currently before the Oireachtas. Professor Fiona de Londras, Máiréad ...

A man who had a heart attack after reading a false missile alert has taken legal action. James Sean Shields claimed the warning was a factor contributing to ...

Parents who lost custody of three of their children pursuant to wardship and return orders made in England and enforced by orders of the High Court have ...

Prisoners may appear in the Irish courts less often under plans to expand use of video-link facilities to deliver greater value for money. A review of prisoner ...

A man has been convicted of breaching the anonymity of a rape complainant for the first time in the Northern Ireland courts. Sean McFarland, 36, was fined ...

The Oberstown Children Detention Campus has been recognised with an award for its use of a new tool to identify, prevent and track health and safety incidents. ...

Employment law solicitor Richard Grogan of Richard Grogan & Associates writes on a recent judgment from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) with significant ...

Lyn McCarthy, associate solicitor in the healthcare team at Hayes Solicitors, sets out in full the Government's proposed reforms to Irish coronial law. The Coroners (Amendment) Bill ...