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In a test case which impacts “some 400” pending cases, the High Court has ruled that debtors have a right to directly engage in the review by the Court of a proposed Personal Insolvency Arrangement (PIA). Finding that the Personal Insolvency Acts 2012 to 2015 did not envisage that the Personal I

Lord Doherty A cross-party group of members of the Scottish, UK and European parliaments who sought judicial review of the UK Government’s policy that the United Kingdom’s notification under Article 50(2) of the Treaty of the European Union will not be withdrawn have been refused permission to p

Johnsons Solicitors has expanded its premises in Dublin’s Harbourmaster Place and are making a significant number of new hires across its all-Ireland operations, as part of its growth strategy for 2018.

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A man who violently assaulted a two-year-old child by punching her in the head "with extreme force", has lost an appeal against the severity of his sentence. Finding that the starting-point of 16 years was "stiff but not manifestly excessive", Lord Chief Justice Morgan noted that the appellant had a

Ken Murphy A&L Goodbody has overtaken Arthur Cox as Ireland's largest law firm by number of practising solicitors, according to new figures from the Law Society of Ireland.

A new large law firm, Hallissey & Partners (H&P), has emerged from the restructuring of West Cork firm P.J. O'Driscolls.

McCann FitzGerald has launched a new AI-driven app to enable organisations to assess their compliance with the EU GDPR.

The chief executive of the Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) has said it will likely not be ready to deal with complaints until 2019. Barrister Brian Doherty, in his first interview since his appointment last September, told the Irish Independent that considerable work had to be done before

English barristers are being trained to seem less pompous in an attempt to help them win wealthy foreign clients amid fears that Brexit will put a dent in their earnings. Training sessions at Middle Temple have seen members taught how to listen in a conversation rather than impress others with their

Pictured (l-r): Special guests Una Rodden and Sinead Smith, with Adele O'Grady QC and Jill Lindsay The Bar of Northern Ireland's charity committee hosted its first ever frock swap at the Inn of Court in Belfast on Friday night.

A 13-part podcast examining the murder of French film producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier in West Cork is set to be launched this Thursday. The podcast, titled West Cork, is being produced by Amazon and will be released through Amazon's Audible service.

The Supreme Court has referred a question to the CJEU regarding the effect of Brexit on EU citizens who have been ordered for surrender to the UK. Delivering the judgment of the five-judge Court, Chief Justice Frank Clarke said that the issue raised by a man whose surrender had been ordered by the H

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan Draft legislation to implement the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Ireland has been published.

Pictured (l-r): Mr Justice McCloskey; IPGNI Chair Maria McCloskey; and John Mackell, Law Society of Northern Ireland Representatives from the legal, business and community/voluntary sectors were in attendance at Law Society House in Belfast yesterday for the launch of the Immigration Practitioners�