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LK Shields partner Aoife Bradley has been appointed as an officer of the International Bar Association's employment and industrial relations committee. Ms Bradley is head of employment, pensions and employee benefits at LK Shields, with experience in the area of unfair dismissal, employment injuncti

The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission will appear as amicus curiae in a case involving a woman in a nursing home who is a ward of court. The Supreme Court agreed to allow the Commission to join the case, which will explore the nature and extent of the rights and protections to be afforded t

The Law Society of Ireland's annual human rights conference will tomorrow explore the legal framework around capacity and the impact of the Assisted Decision Making (Capacity) Act 2015. The conference in Blackhall Place will bring together legal practitioners, people with disabilities, family carers

A watchdog has warned that restrictive practices in mental health facilities such as seclusion and restraint should be used only as a "last resort". The Mental Health Commission (MHC) has said there is no therapeutic benefit to the practices, which were used in 79 per cent of in-patient mental healt

The office of the Advocate General for Scotland is asking the Court of Session in Edinburgh for leave to appeal a decision of the Inner House made last month. In September, the court permitted a group of politicians to ask the Court of Justice of the European Union for a ruling on whether MPs can re

Name checks are to be undertaken when UK bank customers transfer money from next summer to deter rising bank fraud. Currently, if a person wants to send money they are asked for the recipient's account name, as well as number and sort code. However, the bank does not check if the name is correct.

Lawyers, NGOs, trade unions and public sector workers are exploring the public sector duty from a legal perspective for the first time at a conference in Dublin today. The one-day conference, hosted by FLAC, is the first of its kind and aims to enhance awareness and understanding of the public secto

Ireland's legal regulatory bodies co-hosted a panel discussion on fair civil trials yesterday in advance of European Lawyers' Day next week.

The number of homicides recorded by police in England and Wales rose to its highest level in a decade in the year leading up to June 2018, new figures reveal. When last year's London and Manchester terror attacks are excluded, the latest figures show a 14 per cent rise in the homicide rate from 630

Under Article 40.6.1(i) of the Constitution of Ireland, the ‘publication or utterance of blasphemous, seditious, or indecent matter is an offence which shall be punishable in accordance with law’. Pursuant to this mandate, Section 31(1) of the Defamation Act 2009 states that ‘a per

A university has begun offering a course on the law and judicial system of Harry Potter. The module is entitled “An Interface between Fantasy Fiction Literature and Law: Special Focus on Rowling’s Potterverse” and students are only eligible to sit the course if they have read all t

A 21-year-old man who stabbed a victim in the eye at a New Year’s Eve party in 2014, and went on to assault another victim nine months later, has had his unduly lenient sentence increased in the Court of Appeal. Sending the man back to prison for a further twelve months, Mr Justice George Birm

In-house solicitor Grace Boland has launched a new law firm focused on providing plain English legal services to the SME market. Boland Law will provide SMEs in Dublin/Leinster with their own in-house legal function on a flexible part-time basis, in order to allow growing businesses to easily access

Belfast firm Cleaver Fulton Rankin has welcomed four new trainees on a two-year training programme with the firm. Hannah Bulmer, Jennifer Rankin, Shannon McClintock and Laura Toland will spend six months each in four different departments.