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Newry-based McKeowns Solicitors has expanded into Belfast by acquiring 3,500 sq ft of office space in Law Society House. The firm practices in various areas of law, including personal injury, employment, conveyancing and civil litigation.

A solicitor accused of bringing cocaine into Mountjoy Prison can avoid conviction if he makes a donation to a charity assisting drug users, the Irish Examiner reports. Dublin solicitor Aonghus McCarthy, 32, was charged last November on one charge of conveying a controlled drug into Mountjoy Prison o

New legislation is set to be introduced to speed up judicial reviews challenging planning permission for "strategic infrastructure projects", The Irish Times reports. The Cabinet has approved a bill which will seek to minimise delays in planning processes, which have been blamed for Apple's decision

Dean Strang at University of Limerick Star US lawyer Dean A. Strang, who featured in Netflix documentary Making a Murderer, is set to deliver six weeks of lectures to law students at University of Limerick.

A total of £834,000 was returned to law enforcement agencies, the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) and the Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunals Service last year out of £1.7 million recovered from organised crime groups. The Organised Crime Task Force (OCTF) dismantled 23 organised crime groups (

Alastair Todd Arthur Cox has responded to the publication of the latest Northern Ireland housing bulletin.

A man whose DNA was found on the number plate of a car which blew up outside Newry courthouse in 2010 has moved to appeal his conviction for IRA membership. Darren Weldon, 46, had pleaded not guilty at the Special Criminal Court to membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Repu

Paula Lee Leigh Day has announced the launch of what is potentially, at £4 billion, the largest ever equal pay challenge in UK history, aimed at Tesco.

A judge in the High Court has granted an application for judicial review of a coroner’s ‘cab rank’ rule for unexpected deaths on the basis it raises issues for the Jewish and Muslim communities. Mary Hassell, senior coroner for north London, has refused to prioritise deaths for religious reaso

Technology in the 21st Century is providing us with the means to communicate our thoughts and ideas across the planet in a way that would have been unthinkable, even 10 years ago. However good the technology is, it cannot pick up the subtleties of a language, the culture that underpins it, or even t

Sean McElligott Dublin law firm Philip Lee has appointed Sean McElligott to the position of partner. As head of the Technology Group, he advises on complex and large-scale technology and outsourcing transactions, intellectual property, ICT procurement, data protection, privacy and cyber-security law

Lauri Love A man accused of computer hacking has won a case at the High Court of England and Wales against an extradition request from the US.

Judge Ian Forrester QC Judge Ian Forrester QC has been elected president of the Franco-British Lawyers’ Society.

Fighter Conor McGregor is facing legal opposition to his attempts to register several trademarks relating to his personal brands. Mr McGregor has been trying to trademark words and phrases related to him to capitalise on his sporting success, The Irish Times reports.

The families of four soldiers who were killed in the IRA Hyde Park bombings in 1982 have been granted legal aid for their civil case against one of the alleged bombers, the BBC reports. John Downey, 68, is accused of murdering the soldiers.