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Joice Carthy Augustus Cullen Law has warned that a complete overhaul of the medical negligence system would be "premature" and "unnecessary".

An education fund set up by Mason Hayes & Curran and Social Innovation Fund Ireland has announced its backing for five projects.

Belfast firm Mackenzie & Dorman has congratulated bookkeeper Margaret Harris on her fifty years of service at the firm.

Maynooth University Department of Law has welcomed the appointment of its newest lecturer Dr Amina Adanan. Dr Adanan has been working in the Department since 2017, where she has lectured in International Human Rights Law on the LLM programmes, and Land Law, and Constitutional Law, on the undergradua

Landowners whose properties have been encroached by Japanese knotweed will be able to claim damages following a Court of Appeal ruling. Three judges ruled in favour of two owners whose land had been affected by the "pernicious" plant.

A letting agent that charged a tenant £36 for “online services” provided when the tenant was applying to rent a property in 2015, has been ordered by Belfast County Court to return the administration fee. Finding that if the agent had not been involved that the service paid for would have been

Matthew Tully US law firm Tully Rinckey has opened its first European office in Dublin as part of a five-year plan for international expansion.

Eversheds Sutherland has strengthened its European and global financial services team in Dublin with two senior appointments.

Mr Justice Alan Mahon Tributes have been paid to Mr Justice Alan Mahon of the Court of Appeal on his departure from the bench to become Ombudsman for the Defence Forces, The Irish Times reports.

The Bar of Ireland has congratulated barristers on their success in the Bar Council elections. Mary Rose Gearty SC, Conor Dignam SC, Sean Gillane SC, Maura McNally SC and Seán Ó hUallacháin SC were elected to the senior panel.

Mark Thorne Dublin firm Dillon Eustace has advised a European real estate investment specialist on the acquisition of 47 apartments in the Irish capital.

Belfast solicitor Eoghan McKenna, managing director of MSM Law, has been recognised with multiple awards from wellbeing charity Inspire. Mr McKenna's firm resisted stiff competition from other nominees in the business and professional community to receive the Excellence in Small Private Sector Workp

Aisling Scott Congratulations are due to Irish-born solicitor Aisling Scott, who won last week's Come Dine With Me in Edinburgh.

A lawyer for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been given a four-year jail term for stealing the identities of immigrants who were facing deportation and using them to acquire credit cards and run up debts of more $190,300. Raphael Sanchez, 44, who was formerly the head of the ICE office

The Court of Appeal has found that the current law enables legally valid humanist weddings to be performed in Northern Ireland. Overturning the High Court’s declaration that the lack of equal recognition discriminated against humanists pursuant to Articles 9 and 14 ECHR by not protecting a manifes