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Elaine Morrissey has joined US-headquartered patent licensing firm Marconi as senior legal counsel. Ms Morrissey is a solicitor with over 11 years' experience and was previously a partner in William Fry's corporate and M&A team.

Business law firm Mason Hayes & Curran has expanded its energy sector team with the appointment of Rob McDwyer as partner. Mr McDwyer brings more than 22 years of local and international experience to the role, with deep and varied expertise in renewable energy and infrastructure law.

Northern Ireland could soon follow other UK jurisdictions in allowing judges to be filmed and broadcasted handing down decisions in the superior courts. A pilot scheme could begin as soon as this autumn, the Lady Chief Justice of Northern Ireland announced yesterday in her address marking the openin

A decade of budget cuts has left Northern Ireland's justice system at risk of being unable to deliver services, maintain court buildings and pay lawyers on time, the Lady Chief Justice, Dame Siobhan Keegan, has warned. Delivering her address on the opening of the new legal year yesterday, Dame Siobh

The PSNI expects to pay out up to £180 million as a result of litigation brought in response to its recent data breach, the force has said. Assistant chief constable Chris Todd told Westminster's Northern Ireland affairs committee that the breach could cost the force up to £240 million i

The Irish government has been urged by human rights campaigners and Northern Ireland politicians to bring the UK government to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) over its controversial legacy bill. A last-ditch attempt to amend the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill,

An increase in the effective tax rate for Ireland's Knowledge Development Box (KDB) will take effect from 1 October 2023, the government has announced. Finance minister Michael McGrath has signed a commencement order for the relevant provision of the Finance Act 2022, which forms part of Ireland's i

More than 200 professionals working in the area of domestic violence and child protection will this week gather at an educational conference in Dublin co-hosted by Mason Hayes & Curran. Hosted by the business law firm and the School of Social Work and Social Policy at Trinity College Dublin, the

Senior Irish lawyers are set to embark on an intensive five-day promotional visit to the US and Canada to highlight Ireland's unique attributes as a centre for international legal services. The Ireland for Law North America programme will include highlight Ireland's position as the sole English lang

Russia's Wagner Group — the private military company whose leader Yevgeny Prigozhin led an abortive rebellion against Vladimir Putin before being killed in a plane crash last month — is to be proscribed in the UK as a terrorist organisation. Home Secretary Suella Braverman has today laid

A pair of construction workers who dug through the Great Wall of China to create a shortcut have been arrested. Police in Youyo County in Shanxi province say a man and a woman used a digger to create a shortcut through the iconic landmark.

A reprimand issued to Airbnb by Ireland's data protection authority can help other businesses comply with rules on data minimisation and retention in the GDPR and avoid "purpose creep", Pinsent Masons partner Andreas Carney has said. The Data Protection Commission (DPC) recently published its decisi

Five alternative approaches to drugs laws were presented to members of the citizens' assembly on drug use on the weekend, involving dissuasion, diversion, depenalisation, decriminalisation and legislation. The 100 members of the assembly met for a fourth time on the weekend in Malahide, Co Dublin. R

The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) has recommended a series of changes to strengthen the draft environmental principles policy statement (EPPS) for Northern Ireland. The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) asked the OEP — which was established post-Brexi

English courthouses built in the 1990s are being urgently checked for the presence of dangerous aerated concrete after its discovery at a London court building. The UK government is scrambling to respond to a developing crisis over the historic use of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) in