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Richard Foley, senior partner at Pinsent Masons Pinsent Masons has said the "only global law firm serving Northern Ireland just got more global" as it announced plans to expand into South Africa with a new office in Johannesburg.

The High Court has held that Mr Barry White, a retired High Court judge, can return to practice as a barrister acting as an advocate in the Circuit Court – thereby breaching the tradition that retired barristers-turned-judges who return to practice as barrister-advocates, do not appear before a c

The DPP, Claire Loftus State expenditure on barristers' fees rose last year as a result of establishing the new Court of Appeal, according to Ireland's Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

Social Protection Minister Leo Varadkar The Gender Recognition Act 2015 has allowed 149 transgender people to have their preferred gender legally recognised.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald A secretary general to the Department of Justice could be recruited by the end of the year, The Irish Times reports.

Ciáran Moynagh Northern Ireland's lawyers have been invited to formally take part in Belfast Pride celebrations for the first time next weekend.

Jenny McGeever Dublin firm KOD Lyons has announced the appointment of Jenny McGeever to its criminal litigation and superior courts trial team.

Naomi Devlin Belfast-based firm Worthingtons Solicitors has announced the appointment of solicitor advocate Naomi Devlin to their growing family law department.

The question whether enhanced protection depends on a right of permanent residence has been referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union by the Supreme Court in a case in which the Home Secretary tried to deport an Italian national following completion of his sentence for manslaughter. Lor

The article 3 and 5 rights of a Kyrgyz national detained in Russia for more than a year and threatened with extradition were violated, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. The applicant, Mr U.N., is a Kyrgyzstan national who was born in 1991 and lives in Vladivostok in Russia. The case conc

JCHR chair Harriet Harman The UK government should reconsider its counter extremism strategy, use the existing extensive legal framework for dealing with people who promote violence, and introduce new legislation only if it can demonstrate a significant gap, according to a new report by the Joint Co

A solicitor who has appeared in the Solicitors Disciplinary List on more occasions than any other practitioner, and who continues to have a bad record, has lost his case against the Law Society of Ireland in which he sought to have his practising certificate issued to him without conditions. Mr Cond

Attorney General Máire Whelan The Government has been advised by the Attorney General to dilute its new anti-corruption laws, the Irish Independent reports.

Health Minister Simon Harris A legal challenge to Ireland's lifetime ban on blood donation by men who have sex with men (MSM) has been dropped following a change in policy by Health Minister Simon Harris.

Education Minister Richard Bruton Education Minister Richard Bruton has promised that new "fitness to practise" hearings by the Teaching Council will not be excessively legalistic, the Irish Independent reports.