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Maxine Orr Redundancy within a workplace can arise where there is a diminution or cessation of the type of work that an employee carries out. That can arise as part of a restructuring, or where the duties of the post are redistributed among other staff, writes Maxine Orr.

University College Dublin law students Aisling Tully and Dara Keenan (pictured) have won the team competition at the grand final of The Irish Times Debate 2017. The two students representing the UCD Law Society in the annual student competition were asked to oppose the motion: ‘This House believes

A party that wants to legalise cannabis in Northern Ireland has been struck off the register of political parties and fined £23,000 for forgetting to file accounts on time. Cannabis is Safer than Alcohol is registered separately in Northern Ireland and Britain but it has failed to meet the requirem

The School of Law and Graduate Entry Medical School at the University of Limerick has hosted the 2016/17 Kate Fleming Mediation Competition in Medical Law.

A man who claimed, inter alia, that law firm McCann FitzGerald hired a private detective who threatened him and his family, has had his appeal dismissed by the Supreme Court. The man sought damages for nuisance, and alleged that the actions of McCann Fitzgerald and a number of other solicitors firms

Wendy Lyon Asylum seekers will not be disadvantaged by failing to meet a 20-day deadline to submit complex application forms to the new International Protection Office, the Department of Justice has said.

Ronan Daly Jermyn (RDJ) has announced a new strategic alliance with Northern Ireland firm John McKee to provide an all-Ireland legal service for clients who trade in both parts of the island.

Pictured (l-r): Caroline O'Connor and Eoin O'Gorman Eoin O'Gorman Solicitors and Caroline O'Connor Solicitors have joined their practice in new offices at Crescent Quay, Wexford.

Solicitor Pat Finucane's widow, Geraldine Finucane, has lost her appeal against the UK government's refusal to hold a public inquiry into his 1989 murder. She argued that the previous Labour-led administration had promised an inquiry would be held, and that Prime Minister David Cameron had unlawfull

Professor Paddy Nixon Ulster University has launched a new Legal Innovation Centre with support from global firms Allen & Overy (A&O) and Baker McKenzie.

Alan Murphy Legal firms need to become international to match the increasing internationalisation of business, the managing partner of new global firm Eversheds Sutherland's Dublin office has said.

The average duration of proceedings before both the European Court of Justice and the General Court of the European Union has fallen, new judicial statistics show. The average length of proceedings before the Court of Justice fell to 15 months in 2016, which it said reflected its efforts to improve

Lord Justice Briggs A heterosexual couple have failed in their legal battle to have a civil partnership instead of a marriage.

A £50,000 libel judgment against the Sunday World for referring to a County Down businessman as "a Scrooge" has been overturned by the Court of Appeal in Belfast. The Sunday World wrote in December 2014 that hotelier Gordon Coulter had "been branded a Scrooge for putting his staff on the street a w

A woman who waited two years for a decision on subsidiary protection has been awarded nearly €2,000 for the consequent delay on her application for child benefit in respect of her son. In the High Court, it was found that the failure to communicate a decision within a year was in breach of the wom