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The Supreme Court will make a formal declaration next February that the absolute prohibition on asylum seekers looking for employment is unconstitutional, The Irish Times reports. The court today ruled that a declaration will be made on 9 February 2018, regardless of the State's progress in addressi

A free online course for solicitors on the EU Victims’ Directive has been launched by the Law Society Diploma Centre, The Bar of Ireland and the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL).

The president of the High Court has made orders directing that a website involved in a practice known as "claims harvesting" be shut down. Mr Justice Peter Kelly ordered that a website called www.personalinjurysolicitorsdublin.info be removed.

Pictured: Alan Hunter, Eileen Ewing, Ian Huddleston and Suzanne Rice New president Eileen Ewing, who chaired her first meeting of Law Society Council this week, heads up the Law Society of Northern Ireland's presidential and chief executive team for 2017/18.

John Whelan Fewer than one in five Irish businesses who have identified GDPR as a significant issue are well prepared for the new regulations, according to a new report commissioned by A&L Goodbody.

Pictured (l-r): Liam Reid, Peter Curran, Julie Sinnamon Business leaders gathered in Belfast today to discuss Brexit and the Irish border at an event sponsored by Eversheds Sutherland.

Joan Byrne, a senior associate at O'Flynn Exhams Solicitors, has been elected president of the Southern Law Association (SLA).

Late-stage amendments to the Domestic Violence Bill in the Seanad will criminalise "coercive control" within relationships. David Stanton, minister of state in the Department of Justice, unexpectedly told the Seanad this week that, following consideration, "two Government amendments have been tabled

Lord Steyn Tributes have been paid to retired law lord, Lord Steyn of Swafield, who has passed away at 85.

Lawyers' mental health charity LawCare has been nominated for a grant worth up to £8,000 from the new Wesleyan Foundation. The Foundation has been newly set up by Wesleyan, a specialist financial service provider for lawyers, to support good causes across the UK.

A Nazi SS guard who became known as the “Bookkeeper of Auschwitz”, 96, is fit and able to serve his four-year jail sentence, a German court has ruled. Oskar Gröning was found guilty of being an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people at the death camp during the Second World War.

The Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) has urged Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to release 20 imprisoned Turkish lawyers. The letter, signed by CCBE president Ruthven Gemmell, expresses concern over the recent conviction of 20 lawyers in Konya, including the former head of

A far-right leader who will appear in Belfast Magistrates' Court next month has appealed to US President Donald Trump to intervene. Jayda Fransen, 31, made UK-wide headlines yesterday after the President retweeted videos from her page which she claimed showed Muslims committing crimes in parts of Eu

that bears only a passing resemblance to understandable English” was invariably against the defendant’s interests. Citing Tracey v Burton IESC 16, Justice Noonan also noted that “the days of reading things into the record, if they ever existed, have long since passed”.

Pictured (l-r): Selena Kerins, Paul Tweed and Michelle Wilson Defamation lawyer Paul Tweed has officially opened the Belfast office of his new international boutique law firm, TWEED, following a £500,000 investment which was part supported by Danske Bank.