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DWF has appointed insurance lawyer David Kennedy as a partner in its Dublin office. Mr Kennedy joins DWF from DAC Beachcroft. Dual-qualified in Ireland and England & Wales, he brings 18 years’ experience advising on the defence of employers’, public, product and motor liability claim

DWF has hosted the second annual conference for the In-House Lawyers Group Northern Ireland (IHLGNI), bringing together in-house legal professionals from across Northern Ireland to explore the impact of artificial intelligence on the legal profession. The conference, which took place on Thursday 8 O

Pinsent Masons has appointed new partner James Quirke to lead its corporate tax team in Dublin. Mr Quirke joins from McCann FitzGerald LLP where he became a partner in 2024. As well as a solicitor, Mr Quirke is a chartered accountant and chartered tax advisor.

The third series of the Irish Courts Podcast is released today with the first episode looking at miscarriages of justice and the Lynskey case. 

Despite progress in prosecutions and victim identification, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) warns that stalled reforms are leaving serious gaps in Ireland’s protection of trafficking victims. The IHREC notes that Ireland remains at Tier 2 in the US Department of State&rs

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has called on justice minister, Jim O’Callaghan, to engage in mediation with solicitors in order to resolve the criminal legal aid dispute. 

A number of leading Irish and international human rights experts will speak at ICEL’s Human Rights Law Conference in partnership with The Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Galway on Thursday 15 October 2026. The Conference will take place in hybrid format.

Applications are now open for the Public Law Internship Programme 2027.

Addleshaw Goddard brought together a select group of general counsel, senior legal professionals and business leaders for a commercial litigation roundtable exploring how artificial intelligence and emerging technologies are reshaping the disputes landscape. The event, held on 8 October at Lennan&rs

In new podcast from the Irish Independent legal affairs editor Shane Phelan talks about an experiment undertaken at the Kilkenny Law Festival where four AI models, Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok were asked to sit as judges of the High Court. The event which took place in Kilkenny Courthouse on Fr

A Birmingham businessman who bought a three-bedroom house from the city council for £395,000 inadvertently acquired a primary school because of a paperwork error, The Daily Mail reports.

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Justice minister Jim O’Callaghan has launched the Voice of the Child Report Guidelines and Templates as part of the continued effort to ensure children's voices are heard and respected in private family law proceedings. The guidelines were developed by the Voice of the Child Working Grou

The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) has cleared the proposed purchase of Celtic Water Care Solutions Limited by CSG Chemical Solutions Limited (CSG).  CSG is headquartered in Shannon, Co. Clare and provides chemical solutions to the water treatment, environmental and hygie

The Irish Women Lawyers Association (IWLA) has named Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC their Woman Lawyer of the Year 2026. Ms Gallagher is a barrister and leading human rights lawyer who has acted in a range of landmark international human rights cases over the last 25 years.