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Delivered by Mr Martin Blake BL, Attorney at Law; Sir Paul Girvan and Judge Desmond Marrinan This short course is skills-based and will improve the oral and written advocacy skills of its participants who will most likely be practising lawyers/tribunal representatives. It will concentrate on helping

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Invoking Article 50 does not mean it cannot subsequently be revoked, according to one of the EU lawyers who helped draft it. Speaking to Sky News, Jean Claude Piris said: “My opinion is that there is no legal provision in Article 50 providing that when you give your intention you cannot change you

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Credit card company MasterCard is being sued for £14 billion over claims it overcharged 46 million customers in what is the largest legal claim in British history. The case marks the first major case under a new system for class action lawsuits by multiple claimants.

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District court judge Mary Devins yesterday continued to hear a case against German car manufacturer Volkswagen over their admitted cheating on diesel emissions levels - despite a walk-out on Tuesday by barrister Paul Fogarty, (pictured) and two solicitors from A&L Goodbody who disputed the court

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Prominent employment rights lawyer Richard Grogan (pictured) has warned that pregnancy-related dismissals have reached “epidemic levels”. Mr Grogan made his comments after one of his clients, Sandra Gegeckiene, was awarded €10,000 by the Labour Court after being sacked while pregnant by sandwi

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A new fast track Garda recruitment programme aims to recruit 800 gardaí next year and 3,200 on a phased bases over the next four years. The recruitment programme takes into account the numbers of gardaí retiring over the period and is designed to bring the strength of the police service up to 15,0

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In her first appearance before the Commons Justice Select Committee the new Justice Secretary reiterated the goal of pushing through a British Bill of Rights. Liz Truss (pictured) confirmed that the Conservativegovernment still plans to repeal the Human Rights Act but remain a signatory to the Europ

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The High Court has refused the application of a mother to remove her two children from Ireland, returning them to Australia where they were born and where she is a citizen. Justice O’Hanlon found that the children were habitually resident in Ireland, and that the mother and the father – an Iris

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Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald(pictured) is to appeal July’s High Court decision to allow retired judge Barry White to resume practice as a criminal defence barrister. In a highly unusual step the former High Court judge had sought to return to work as a barrister because of inadequate pe

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Minister for Finance Michael Noonan(pictured) has published an amendment to Section 110 aimed at closing a tax loophole used by US-based vulture funds which swooped to snap up distressed Irish assets following the crash of 2008. Section 110 was introduced in 1997 with the intention of boosting Dubli

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