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A judge who was excused from jury duty because he said he thinks all defendants are guilty has been forced to resign from the bench.

Maples and Calder (Ireland) LLP, the Maples Group's law firm, has appointed Stephen Gardiner as a partner in its Irish asset finance practice. With 15 years' experience, Mr Gardiner is a highly-regarded advisor in the aviation leasing and finance sector in Ireland.

Walkers has appointed Dermot Casserly as partner and head of its employment law team in Ireland. Mr Casserly joins from DWF, where he led the employment team, having previously held roles at Beauchamps and KPMG.

Another legal challenge has been brought against the government's appointment of so-called "super junior ministers". People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy is asking the High Court to issue an injunction preventing the newly-appointed ministers from attending Cabinet meetings.

Dillon Eustace has been ranked as the leading legal adviser to Irish-domiciled funds in a new report from Monterey Insight. The firm's asset management and investment funds team retained its position as the number one legal adviser to Irish-domiciled funds in the Monterey Insight Ireland Fund Report

Patrice O'Keeffe has been appointed as managing partner of Comyn Kelleher Tobin (CKT), taking the reins from Deborah Moore, who has led the practice for the past 16 years. Having headed the firm through a period of significant growth — including an 85 per cent increase in practising solicitors

Mason Hayes & Curran has reported a seven per cent increase in turnover to €122 million in 2024. The business law firm, one of very few Irish law firms to report its financial results, also saw its headcount increase to over 650 during the year, including the addition of seven new partners.

Solicitor Maura Kiely has been appointed as a Revenue Commissioner. Taoiseach Micheál Martin appointed Ms Kiely to succeed Gerry Harrahill, who recently retired from the Revenue Board.

Lawyers representing 3,500 claimants are preparing to sue Johnson & Johnson (J&J) over alleged links between its talcum powder products and cancer, in what could become one of the largest pharmaceutical group actions in England and Wales. Claimants allege that asbestos-contaminated talcum po

A colony of beavers jumped the gun on a seven-year-long dispute by constructing a series of dams exactly where local authorities wanted to build them. Environmentalists had called for years for the construction of new dams in Czechia's Brdy mountains to reverse damage caused by the communist-era Cze

IP law firm Bristows has appointed Naoise Gaffney as of counsel and UPC director in Dublin. The London-headquartered firm opened its Dublin office in September 2023 in response to the establishment of the Unified Patent Court (UPC).

Addleshaw Goddard Ireland has appointed Joseph O'Rourke as a corporate and commercial partner and Killian Maher as a construction partner. The two appointments come as the international law firm settles into its new 28,000 sq ft office at Fitzwilliam No.28, Dublin.

Northern Ireland's High Court has reserved judgment on an application for judicial review brought over the Executive's failure to adopt an anti-poverty strategy. The Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) brought the legal proceedings with support from Public Interest Litigation Support (P

Child complainants in serious sexual offence cases in Northern Ireland will soon be able to avail of free independent legal advice, justice minister Naomi Long has indicated. A children's version of the sexual offences legal advisers (SOLA) pilot was originally expected to be launched in January 202

Ireland is facing infringement proceedings over its alleged failure to transpose two EU directives. The European Commission has sent a letter of formal notice to six member states, including Ireland, for allegedly having notified only the partial transposition of the Gender Balance on Corporate Boar