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The Bank of Ireland has been granted judgment of €970,000 outstanding for a mortgage loan granted to a couple in 2006. In a heavily critical judgment, Mr Justice Noonan emphasised that there was no tort of reckless lending, and found that the couple had no bona fide defence.

Mr Justice Seán Ryan, president of the Court of Appeal, has warned that the relatively new court is "coming to the point of being overwhelmed" by cases, The Irish Times reports. However, he also said he was "confident, despite the many other demands on State resources, the Government will put effec

Stuart Gilhooly The president of the Law Society of Ireland has said the country's legal profession is "in a boom - or close to a boom anyway".

Evan O'Dwyer Permanent TSB has settled with a victim of the tracker mortgage scandal in what appears to be the first successful case, The Irish Times reports.

The Bar of Ireland yesterday presented its annual Human Rights Award to Catherine Corless, the amateur historian who played a pivotal role in exposing the mass grave at a Mother and Baby home in Tuam.

http://twitter.com/LawSocIreland/status/923845424859017216 Ballots in the elections for the Council of the Law Society of Ireland are being counted under the supervision of its scrutineers.

Over a dozen solicitors and barristers have completed the Institute of Professional Legal Studies' (IPLS) mediation training course.

A personal assistant who stole from her barrister bosses for over a decade has been jailed for four years, the Irish Independent reports. Siobhán Maguire, 47, stole €1,187,616 from barristers Michael Delaney and Jeremy Maher over a 14-year period while working as their shared secretary and person

Garret Farrelly Matheson advised General Electric on its recently announced corporate power purchase agreement (PPA) with tech giant Microsoft, the first deal of its kind in Ireland.

Beauchamps hosted Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy in its offices for an event focused on solving the shortage of good social housing.

Twelve students from schools around Northern Ireland have participated in a Work Inspiration session at Carson McDowell's office in partnership with Business in the Community. The solicitor firm has been involved in the Work Inspiration programme for over four years, welcoming over 150 students over

Michael Donnellan The director general of the Irish Prison Service (IPS) has been named Head of Service at an international prison conference.

A student president who intervened on the basis of legal advice to remove potentially illegal information on abortion from a student magazine has been impeached, The Irish Times reports. Katie Ascough, president of UCD Students' Union, came under fire from pro-choice students after removing informat

A woman has been awarded over £20,000 in the Northern Ireland Fair Employment Tribunal after it was found that she was discriminated against and victimised on the grounds of her religious belief or political opinion. The woman had been working for the company for over four years when a dispute aros

Pinsent Masons has confirmed plans to take new premises at the 1 Windmill Lane development in Dublin's SOBO district.