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Charlie Flanagan Just over a year after six Irish students died following the collapse of a balcony in Berkeley, California, the state yesterday signed Senate Bill 465, to increase the supervision of construction companies in a bid to prevent a repeat of the tragic incident.

Catriona Gibson Arthur Cox has been ranked across all legal areas for Northern Ireland, and has achieved coveted Top-Tier rankings in all core areas including: Corporate and M&A; Dispute resolution; Banking and finance; Insolvency and corporate recovery; Employment; Project finance and PFI; Comm

The operator of a shop who offers a Wi-Fi network free of charge to the public is not liable for copyright infringements committed by users of that network but may be required to password-protect its network in order to bring an end to, or prevent, such infringements, the Court of Justice of the Eur

The operator of a shop who offers a Wi-Fi network free of charge to the public is not liable for copyright infringements committed by users of that network but may be required to password-protect its network in order to bring an end to, or prevent, such infringements, the Court of Justice of the Eur

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Ten members of the Herbert Smith Freehills Belfast team have abseiled down the Dromore Viaduct to raise money for the Simon Community NI.

Our ideas of Paris during the war may well have been shaped from the film Casablanca. "Well, Rick, we’ll always have Paris…" Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) says. But I would doubt few, if any of us, would have paused to consider what Paris actually meant for those living there in the period of the Second

The Social Security Commissioner has held that a working mother of four children was not disentitled to tax credits solely on the basis that her childcare provider was located outside the United Kingdom. A Tribunal of Commissioners stated that regulation 14(2)(d) of the Working Tax Credit Regulation

The Social Security Commissioner has held that a working mother of four children was not disentitled to tax credits solely on the basis that her childcare provider was located outside the United Kingdom. A Tribunal of Commissioners stated that regulation 14(2)(d) of the Working Tax Credit Regulation

The full Submission by the Council of The Bar of Ireland to the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure & Reform and Taoiseach on the rising costs of motor insurance has now been made available as a pdf for download by the Law Library. It can be accessed here: https://www.lawlibrary.ie/me

Lord Neuberger Six prisoners serving time in Northern Ireland arising from violent deaths have launched appeals following the UK Supreme Court ruling joint enterprise which was issued in February.

Michael Johnston Belfast-based Carson McDowell has been recognised as a Top Tier Firm in 11 practice areas in the Legal 500 2016, which was published yesterday.

Campaigners from The Turn Off The Red Light coalition met in Dublin yesterday to urge the Government to avoid further delay in passing the Criminal Justice (Sexual Offences) Bill which would criminalise the purchase of sex as Northern Ireland did last year. The coalition, representing 70 organisatio

A petition with over 20,000 signatures will be presented to the Northern Ireland Assembly at Stormont next Tuesday. The petition, against the use of the veto over marriage equality legislation by the DUP, that will be presented by Gerry Carroll MLA, West Belfast People Before Profit, was gathered by

Mary Robinson Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson was applauded by Chicago councillors when she raised the issue of the city’s soaring murder rate during a ceremony to award her with Chicago’s Medal of Merit.