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Catherine Guy ByrneWallace has been recognised as a top tier firm in the latest rankings of Irish law firms published by independent directories Legal 500 and Chambers Europe.

A man who provided two separate guarantees for his son’s loans in excess of €1m has lost his appeal against a High Court order granting a summary judgment in favour of the crediting bank. The man submitted that the bank failed to take steps to ensure that, as guarantor, he freely consented to th

Stuart Gilhooly, president of the Law Society of Ireland Leading figures in the Irish legal profession have denounced an Irish neurosurgeon who claimed whiplash and soft tissue injury are "mainly non-existent injuries".

The Citizens' Assembly has recommended an extensive liberalisation of Ireland's abortion laws following a series of secret ballots over the weekend. Ms Justice Mary Laffoy, chair of the Assembly, announced the outcome of key ballots on Saturday and Sunday.

Around 13 per cent of recorded crimes in 2016 were committed by a person on bail for another offence, according to figures obtained by the Irish Examiner. A total of 25,543 crimes out of 198,634 recorded by gardaí last year, including 6,214 thefts and 1,377 burglaries, were committed by individuals

Victims of child abuse have called on Northern Ireland political parties and the UK government to address the failure to implement the recommendations of the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry report. After a demonstration at Stormont today, abuse survivors will hand in a 30-page document and le

Mr Justice Turlough O'Donnell, a former High Court and Court of Appeal judge, has died. The prominent late judge, buried yesterday, sat on the bench between 1971-90 and subsequently became a part-time member of Ireland's Law Reform Commission.

Larry Donnelly US President Donald Trump is either responsible for "a great betrayal of vulnerable voters" or "a fundamental misread of his mandate", NUI Galway law lecturer Larry Donnelly has said.

Belfast solicitors are set to raise cash for a mental health charity by playing golf. The Belfast Solicitors' Association (BSA) has launched its annual Golf Day, which this year will raise cash for Inspire wellbeing (formerly Niamh), one of the longest established mental health and learning disabili

Limerick firm HOMS Solicitors is supporting suicide and self-harm charity Pieta House at Darkness Into Light events across Ireland.

A man who fractured his knuckle after tripping on a footpath while jogging has been awarded €60,000 in damages after it was found in the High Court that South Dublin County Council breached the common duty of care it owed to the man by failing to repair the footpath. Included in the award made by

The international section of the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) has met in Dublin for the first time.

Les Allamby The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) has joined its counterparts in Scotland, England and Wales in urging the UK government to strengthen, not weaken, human rights through Brexit.

The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) has raised serious concerns over the safety of inmates and staff in prisons in England. The CPT's report following a UK visit last Spring notes prison violence spiralling out of

A choir of solicitors, barristers and judges will raise money in aid of Belfast's homeless at a concert next month.