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Dublin firm KOD Lyons has said it is "delighted" with the level of engagement from legal practitioners at a seminar it hosted in conjunction with the Commission on the Future of Policing.

ByrneWallace has launched a nationwide series of seminars to assist accountancy firms and chartered accountant professionals prepare for the GDPR. The series of seminars, hosted in association with Chartered Accountants Ireland, will provide a general overview of the key changes and practical guidan

George Brady Matheson recently advised the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund on its multimillion euro equity investment in Mainstay Medical International plc.

https://twitter.com/AmnestyNI/status/965923708907999233 Representatives from Amnesty International NI and the Belfast-based NGO Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) today met Max Hill QC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation.

A new survey of English barristers has found they are even less satisfied with their working lives than NHS staff, the Law Society Gazette reports. The South Eastern Circuit and Criminal Bar Association (CBA) invited 2,000 members to complete surveys on quality of working life and the courts' flexib

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found that a Lithuanian lawyer convicted of bribery offences had not suffered a violation of his rights. Kęstas Ramanauskas is a Lithuanian national who was born in 1966 and lives in Kaišiadorys. He worked as a lawyer in his own private practice.

The Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht has successfully appealed a decision of the High Court which designated certain streets and street alignments associated with the 1916 Rising as National Monuments for the purposes of the National Monuments Act 1930. Stating that such designations we

Pictured (l-r): Conference participants Brian O'Gorman, Federico Fabbrini, Julia King, and Enrico Letta. The Dublin offices of Arthur Cox recently played host to a DCU Brexit Institute conference on Brexit, Climate and Energy Policy.

Robert McTernagh Organisers of the Sports Law Bar Association of Ireland's (SLBA) inaugural conference say they have been forced to move the conference to a larger venue due to strong demand.

The British Irish Chamber of Commerce (BICC), sponsored by KPMG and Ulster Bank, has announced the launch of a year-long programme of events on the challenges and opportunities of Brexit.

The High Court has overturned a ruling in favour of a man in Ireland's first "right to be forgotten" case, the Irish Examiner reports. Mark Savage had complained to the Data Protection Commissioner over Google's refusal to remove links to a page where he was described as "homophobic".

Nearly half of all sexual offences recorded by gardaí in 2016 were committed by under-18s, according to figures published by the Irish Youth Justice Service (IYJS). According to the the annual report for 2016 of the monitoring committee of the Garda Juvenile Diversion Programme, 45 per cent of sexu

Cork Prison Scenes from an Irish play about three men kidnapped in Lebanon will be performed for inmates at Cork Prison tomorrow.

The Irish Prison Service has affirmed its support for continued co-operation with the Northern Ireland Prison Service at the first of a number of passing out ceremonies in the north. Ronnie Armour, head of the Northern Ireland Prison Service, and David Clarke, head of learning and development at the

A fourth man is facing hate crime charges in relation to a far-right rally in Belfast last year. John Richard Banks, a 60-year-old man from Yorkshire, appeared before Belfast Magistrates' Court on two counts of using threatening, abusive or insulting language at the "Northern Ireland Against Terrori