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A pharmaceutical company which was granted a patent now the subject of revocation proceedings in the European Patent Office and in the Irish courts, has had its application for a stay on ‘discovery, the carrying out of experiments or the other interlocutory steps that will require to be taken

A majority of in-house women lawyers in Ireland believe that quotas are necessary to address gender inequalities in the workplace, according to research by Mason Hayes & Curran. When don't knows are excluded, 57 per cent of those surveyed by the firm supported the introduction of quotas to fix t

Northern Ireland's Department of Justice has launched a consultation on extending the Unduly Lenient Sentence (ULS) scheme to money laundering, firearms and terrorist offences. Under the ULS scheme, the Director of Public Prosecutions can, if he considers that a sentence passed in the Crown Court is

A belief in Scottish independence is "protected" under equality laws, an employment tribunal has ruled in a case involving an SNP councillor. Chris McEleny, SNP group leader on Inverclyde Council, brought a case against the Ministry of Defence (MoD), claiming it unfairly targeted him over his stance

Children's Minister Dr Katherine Zappone has said a review commissioned after serious incidents including fires and rioting at Oberstown Children Detention Campus in 2016 will not be published. Child law expert Professor Barry Goldson and former UK parole board chair Professor Nick Hardwick were com

Co Antrim solicitor John Killen McNinch has passed away, the Law Society of Northern Ireland has confirmed. Until his retirement, "Billy" McNinch was the third generation of the McNinch family practising at J.W. McNinch & Son.

It walks like a tablet, but talks like a laptop — the super slick Surface Pro is Microsoft’s answer to the latest iPad, and probably the one after that too.

For a third year running, Northern Ireland lawyers were among thousands of people who took part in the annual Belfast Pride parade on Saturday.

Solicitor Cian O'Carroll, who has represented CervicalCheck scandal victims including Vicky Phelan, has accused the Government of aligning with the labs at the centre of the scandal. Mr O'Carroll told the Irish Independent that the Government was not living up to its pledge to stand with the women a

The Law Society of England and Wales has succeeded in overturning cuts to legal aid payments for document-heavy Crown Court cases. In a strongly-worded judgment, Lord Justice Leggatt and Mrs Justice Carr DBE quashed changes to the Litigators Graduated Fee Scheme (LGFS) introduced in December 2017.

A man called the police after a kangaroo crashed through his living room window in the middle of the night and upended his home. Instead of being arrested for breaking and entering, the young kangaroo was bundled away by animal rescuers and taken to a nearby shelter.

A man whose wife committed suicide the day after she was discharged from hospital for a previous suicide attempt, has been awarded €263,220.81 in the High Court. Finding that the woman had not been afforded an appropriate standard of medical care at University College Hospital Galway, Mr Justic

The Government has published draft legislation to overhaul the law on coroners and provide for mandatory inquests in the case of maternal death. Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan said the "very important" Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018 would amend the Coroners Act 1962 to clarify, strengthen and mod

The High Court sat in a Dublin nursing home yesterday in a legal first, The Irish Times reports. Mr Justice Peter Kelly, president of the High Court, agreed to the unusual sitting to hear testimony from a man at the centre of a capacity dispute.

Maynooth University Law Department has announced the appointment of Dr Ollie Bartlett from the University of Liverpool, who is taking up a lectureship in law. Dr Bartlett joined Liverpool as a law lecturer in 2015 and later became deputy director of the Law and Non-Communicable Diseases Unit there.