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The Hibernian Law Journal has named Joshua Kieran-Glennon as editor-in-chief for its forthcoming 22nd volume. Mr Kieran-Glennon, a deputy editor of the outgoing board, is a trainee solicitor at McCann FitzGerald LLP, and succeeds Julia Launders in the role of editor-in-chief.

EY's partners will vote on the firm's break-up after leaders approved the split at a meeting this week. Speculation of the big four firm's restructuring has been going on for some time as conflicts between the auditing business and advisory arm are thought to prevent greater growth.

The Bar of Northern Ireland has welcomed the shelving of UK government plans to reform human rights legislation. The proposed Bill of Rights was due to be debated in Parliament next week, but government officials have said it is now "unlikely to progress in its current form" under new prime minister

Thousands of donkey penises set for Hong Kong have been seized by customs officials in Nigeria. The 16 sacks of penises were falsely labelled as "cow male genitals", but were correctly identified "after due examination", ABC News reports.

Human rights lawyer Michael Farrell, who played a key role in the introduction of Ireland's gender recognition laws, has been awarded an honorary doctorate by University College Dublin (UCD). As senior solicitor with legal rights group FLAC from 2005 to 2015, Mr Farrell worked on the landmark case i

A rise in prisoner numbers suggests the penal system is returning to "business as usual" after the pandemic, experts have warned. The Irish Prison Service (IPS) yesterday published its annual report for 2021 as justice minister Helen McEntee visited Limerick Prison to review its major expansion proj

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The Lady Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, Dame Siobhan Keegan, has paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth II, who died yesterday at the age of 96. In a statement, Northern Ireland's top judge said: "I am very saddened this evening by the news of the death of Her Majesty the Queen.

Business law firm Mason Hayes & Curran has appointed David McGovern as head of its aviation and asset finance practice group. Mr McGovern brings 20 years' experience in both private practice and in-house roles to the team across the Irish and international aviation industry.

More that two-thirds of Ireland's energy sector believes that the government's delivery target for offshore wind is either extremely challenging or completely unrealistic, according to a survey by business law firm Mason Hayes & Curran. Just seven per cent of industry professionals believe that

Plans for a new District Garda HQ in Newcastle West, Co Limerick have been unveiled by justice minister Helen McEntee. Mrs McEntee was joined by Patrick O'Donovan, the minister of state with responsibility for the Office of Public Works, to make the announcement at the site of the proposed new stati

Capacity pressures at the Office of the State Pathologist (OSP) have eased somewhat following a series of appointments in 2021, a new report indicated. Dr Linda Mulligan was appointed as chief state pathologist in February 2021 after a three-year search, with Ireland facing a "worldwide shortage of

Senior civil servant Anne Marie Caulfield has been appointed as CEO designate of the new Gambling Regulatory Authority of Ireland, which is due to be established under forthcoming legislation. James Browne, the minister of state with responsibility for law reform, said the early appointment would en

England's Court of Appeal has quashed another five convictions of sub-post masters and mistresses. The court ruled that their prosecutions and convictions were an abuse of the court’s process as the evidence against them arose from software, Horizon, which was replete with bugs, errors or defe

The sale of Siteserv to billionaire businessman Denis O'Brien in 2012 was so tainted by impropriety and wrongdoing that it was not commercially sound, a long-running inquiry has concluded. Mr Justice Brian Cregan was appointed in 2015 to lead a commission of investigation into the controversial tran