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The house where Adolf Hitler was born is to be repurposed as a human rights training centre for Austrian police officers. The redevelopment of the 17th century house in Braunau am Inn at a cost of €20 million will begin later this year after an expert committee rejected alternative proposals to

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Katie Prendergast BL has been appointed as CEO of charity The SCOOP Foundation. SCOOP stands for 'Supporting Children Out of Poverty' and the charity focuses on empowering displaced and marginalised young people to fulfil their potential in Ireland and abroad.

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Arthur Cox has announced the appointment of 26 new senior associates across the firm. Paul Barry, Gareth Collins and James Hodgson have been appointed as senior associates in the asset management and investment funds team, while Fintan Kerins has been appointed in the aviation and asset finance team

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The civil legal aid scheme should be extended to cover housing issues amid a "protracted housing, homelessness and accommodation crisis", the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has recommended. The rights body has published its submission to the independent review of the civil legal aid sche

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A lawyer who returned to his abandoned humanities course after his retirement is set to break the world record for longest time taken to complete a university degree. Arthur Ross, 71, will tomorrow be conferred the bachelor of arts degree from the University of British Columbia (UBC) which he first

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Matheson has partnered with University College Dublin (UCD) to launch a new Matheson Diversity in Law Newman Fellowship which aims to promote greater diversity within the legal profession. The fellowship will contribute to building research-based evidence in the field of access to legal education fo

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Multinational law firm Pinsent Masons has appointed two partners, a legal director and three senior associates in Belfast. Private equity lawyer Lisa Early and construction law specialist Ciaran McNamara have been made partners, while employment lawyer Craig Patterson has become a legal director. Sa

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The maximum sentence for assaults on gardaí, prison officers, soldiers and emergency workers is set to be increased to 12 years' imprisonment under government plans. The government will propose an amendment to the Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill to significantly increase the

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Dublin-based intellectual property law firm FRKelly has appointed Con O'Connor and John O'Flaherty as partners. Mr O'Connor is a European patent attorney specialising in the chemical, materials and pharmaceutical fields.

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The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has begun hearing an appeal of a ruling that Apple did not receive illegal state aid from Ireland and does not have to pay €14 billion in back taxes. The European Commission concluded in 2016 that Ireland broke EU state aid rules by granting und

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