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A&L Goodbody has won two European accolades at the Managing Partners' Forum (MPF) Awards 2016. The Irish law firm was recognised in the category of Best Community Engagement for its Dublin literacy programme and Best Use of Business Systems for developing a bespoke business bid platform.

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A record number of people were sent to prison in 2015, according to new figures from the Irish Prison Service. There were a total of 17,420 prison committals last year, topping a previous record of 17,319 in 2011, with 9,800 of the committals related to non-payment of court fines.

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Portuguese workers who were illegally underpaid for their work on an Irish road project have been awarded €1.5 million in damages. Mr Justice David Keane, sitting in the High Court in Dublin, ruled that 27 Portuguese workers are entitled to recover damages over breach of their employment contracts

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Sabine Walsh, president of the MII The Mediators' Institute of Ireland (MII) has proposed the use of independent facilitation services to support the process of forming a Government.

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A European inquiry into the e-commerce sector has found that widespread geo-blocking could be in breach of EU antitrust rules in some cases. The European Commission has published its initial findings from research conducted as part of an ongoing antitrust sector inquiry launched last year into the e

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A refugee at the centre of a high-profile abortion controversy has launched a civil action for damages against the State. Ms Y is an asylum seeker who arrived in Ireland in early 2014 and unsuccessfully sought an abortion after discovering that she had become pregnant as a result of rape in her home

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The Court of Appeal has overturned an award of damages in the sum of €67,450 made by the High Court in 2014 in favour of a supermarket employee who injured herself lifting a 10kg bag of potatoes in 2011. Ms Geraldine Martin, an employee of Dunnes Stores, had been working as checkout operator, when

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Elliott Duffy Garrett Solicitors (EDG) were delighted to host 50 lawyers from across Europe at the TAGLaw European Regional Conference in Belfast on 11 and 12 March 2016. EDG is the sole Northern Irish member of the TAGLaw Global Law Firm Group. Founded in 1998, TAGLaw is an international alliance o

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