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US law firm Quinn Emanuel has raised NQ salaries to £180,000 (around €210,000) as the war for talent in London continues. The new sum marks an increase of £30,000 as the firm seeks to tempt lawyers from its Magic Circle rivals.

Taylor Wessing Ireland has appointed pharmaceutical and biotechnology patent litigation specialist Eoin Martyn as a partner in its patents and innovation team. Mr Martyn, who joins from a major Irish law firm, is admitted to practise as a solicitor in Ireland, England and Wales and Queensland, Austr

Controversial Scottish plans to introduce juryless trials have been condemned by the Scottish, English, Irish and Northern Ireland bars. Following a meeting of the four bars in Belfast recently, their leadership issued a joint statement on the proposed removal of juries for rape and other serious se

Proposals to allow gardaí to use facial recognition technology do not currently include enough safeguards to protect fundamental rights, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has warned. The rights body has today set out its concerns with the proposed general scheme of the Garda S&ia

Mercy Law Resource Centre has welcomed Erika Hayes to its team as a solicitor. Ms Hayes previously worked as a legal officer with Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) on corporate accountability for human rights abuses.

Insurance defence firm Hayes McGrath LLP has promoted Liz Lyons to partner. A key member of the firm's defence litigation practice, Ms Lyons joined the firm in 2007 as a legal executive. She qualified as a solicitor in 2016 after completing a traineeship with the firm.

An angry man smacked a police officer with an unexpected weapon — a block of cheese — in what police say proves "we can never let our guard down". Police responding to a reported disturbance in St. John's, capital of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, found a "very irate

Child rapists in England and Wales will automatically lose parental responsibility over their own children under legislative amendments proposed by the UK government. The change comes alongside separate legislation which will apply an automatic suspension of parental responsibility in cases where a

The Injuries Resolution Board marked its 20th anniversary with a conference in Dublin yesterday. Titled ‘Twenty Years On – The Changing Personal Injuries Environment’, the conference heard from international and Irish experts discussing the impact of reforms in the personal injurie

Philip Lee has appointed Dr Alison Hardiman as a partner in the firm's planning and environmental practice. Dr Hardiman has extensive knowledge of planning and environmental law with a particular focus on strategic infrastructure development and renewable energy projects.

Almost nine out of 10 school principals lack formal training in managing disciplinary issues, a survey by Mason Hayes & Curran has found. The business law firm polled more than 300 school leaders at its recent webinar titled 'Procedures and Policies Protect Principals'.

Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin has been presented with a human rights award at the US première of a new film about the Guantanamo Bay torture camp. The Irish legal academic, who as UN special rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism was the first UN investigator granted a

The board of Cuan, the new domestic, sexual and gender based violence agency, has convened for the first time.

Proposals on how a global agreement on biodiversity will be monitored risk undermining the rights of indigenous peoples, Amnesty International has said. Current plans regarding how to measure progress towards the Global Biodiversity Framework – a conservation agreement which involves guarantee

An autistic chip shop worker has settled a disability discrimination case brought against his former employer with support from the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland for £8,000. Oisín McKerr, who was a school pupil when he applied for his first part-time job at Mak's Plaice in Ma