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Multinational law firm Pinsent Masons has promoted Zara West to partner and Karen Gallagher and Claire Winrow to legal director in its Dublin office. The promotions are effective from 1 May 2023 and will bring the total number of partners across the Pinsent Masons network to 480.

Children should be taught about domestic violence at school to cut offending, a Northern Ireland judge has said. Judge Barney McElholm, of Londonderry Magistrates' Court, told BBC News NI that there has been an increase in the number of domestic abuse cases coming before him.

New legislation aimed at preventing criminals from using "repeated court challenges" to stymie the work of the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) will be published within weeks. The move was announced by justice minister Simon Harris at the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors (AGSI) annual confe

The Galway Solicitors Bar Association (GSBA) will next week host an event to celebrate 100 years of women in the solicitor profession. The event, taking place on Monday 17 April from 4pm–7pm, will include a one-hour CPD workshop with guest speaker Margaret Mulpeter on workplace wellbeing, foll

A man who drunkenly stole a thumb from a soldier in China's famous Terracotta Army will avoid a lengthy period of imprisonment after a plea deal with US prosecutors. Michael Rohana, 29, snapped the thumb off the ancient statue during an "ugly Christmas sweater party" at The Franklin Institute in Phi

Solicitors will be required to do more to protect client moneys under new regulations coming into effect this summer. The Solicitors Accounts Regulations 2023 will come into force from 1 July 2023, replacing most of the Solicitor Accounts Regulations 2014.

Former US president Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 criminal charges brought after an investigation into alleged "hush money" payments made ahead of the 2016 election. Prosecutors allege that Trump made illegal payments to suppress negative information during his successful presidential ca

Judicial mediation will be offered in cases brought before Northern Ireland's Industrial Tribunals and Fair Employment Tribunal in a bid to speed up resolutions. A form of alternative dispute resolution, judicial mediation involves an employment judge acting as an impartial mediator and helping the

TikTok has been fined £12.7 million for a number of breaches of data protection law by the UK regulator, including failing to use children's personal data lawfully. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) estimates that TikTok allowed up to 1.4 million UK children under 13 to use its

Northern Ireland's Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has launched a consultation on developing future regulations that will place climate change reporting duties on specified public bodies. These regulations are required to be made under the Climate Change Act (Northe

Queen's University Belfast students Jessica Rae-Anne Richards and Ciara Ambrose have triumphed in the 2023 International Negotiation Competition (INC), hosted by the European Law Students' Association Ireland at Maynooth University.

Researchers have found that defendants who don’t “swear by Almighty God” when in court run a higher risk of being found guilty by jurors who themselves swear by God. In countries such as Britain and Ireland court witnesses must declare they will provide truthful evidence, but those

The Allen & Overy Foundation has pledged to support young people in Northern Ireland through the delivery of an entrepreneurship and enterprise skills programme called Project Business. The programme will be delivered by charity Young Enterprise, which develops the skills of around 90,000 young

Matheson LLP has appointed David Fitzgibbon and Darren Maher as co-heads of its corporate team and Sally Anne Stone as head of its commercial real estate group. In addition to jointly running the corporate group, Mr Fitzgibbon has also taken on the role of head of corporate M&A and Mr Maher has

Department store John Lewis has succeeded in a court battle with an author who claimed that the retailer had copied one of her designs for its Christmas advert. The retailer's 2019 advert featured a friendly green dragon named Excitable Edgar.