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Over 100 Irish students have taken part in a virtual legal careers insight event hosted by Browne Jacobson with the aim of making the legal profession more diverse. The FAIRE (Fairer Access Into Real Experience) event, delivered in partnership with Young Professionals, drew over 3,000 young people f

Nearly half of Irish financial services industry leaders believe the UK will rejoin the European Union by 2040, according to a survey by business law firm Mason Hayes & Curran. The firm surveyed around 400 industry leaders attending its financial services insights event last night, which took pl

Youth diversion projects for under-18s could be extended to young adults aged up to 24 years old under proposals explored in a new government report. A discussion paper published to coincide with a one-day conference on youth justice at Croke Park suggests establishing a system similar to the Garda

The Irish Football Association (IFA) has been urged to raise human rights concerns with FIFA and the Qatari authorities when officials travel to the country for the opening ceremony of the World Cup later this month. Amnesty International has written to the president, chief executive and chairman of

Dublin-headquartered Lavelle Partners has announced the launch of a second office in Galway. The new office, located in Eyre Square, will offer a full range of services including dispute resolution, commercial law, commercial property, insolvency, employment, and private client services including pr

Law students Beth Hamill and Tom Dwan have triumphed in the final round of Trinity Law Society's annual senior mock trial. Last week's final saw the pair go head-to-head with Eoin Ryan and Fiona Stenson. All four finalists will now represent Trinity in an intervarsity competition with Cambridge Univ

The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has submitted a draft decision in an inquiry into Yahoo! EMEA Limited to other concerned supervisory authorities across the EU.

A plane passenger has failed in a bid to conceal a gun inside an entire raw chicken. Security officials at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport took to Instagram yesterday to share photos of the "personal fowl".

Susan Martin has been elected as president of the Dublin Solicitors Bar Association (DSBA). Ms Martin is a practising solicitor of over 20 years and principal of Martin Solicitors. She is also a serving officer in the Army Reserve.

Ireland's National Moot Court Competition will this year take place in-person for the first time since the pandemic. Organised by DCU and sponsored by A&L Goodbody, the 13th annual competition will take place on Saturday 19 November at the Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin.

A health and social care trust is set to pay out £20 million to the family of a nine-year-old girl who suffered a serious brain injury at birth in one of Northern Ireland's largest-ever medical negligence settlements. The High Court in Belfast has approved the settlement, which follows legal a

Our regular round-up of deals involving Irish law firms. Submit your deals to newsdesk@irishlegal.com. Irish PPE specialist MJ Scannell has been acquired by Groupe RG, a major player in the distribution of PPE in France.

Park authorities in the US have urged members of the public not to lick their psychedelic toads. The National Park Service took to social media last week to discourage visitors from searching for and licking Sonoran Desert toads, also known as Colorado River toads.

Judges must verify on their own initiative that migrants and asylum seekers are being detained lawfully, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled. The court today handed down its judgment in a case referred by the Netherlands Council of State and the District Court of The Hague, w

Government proposals to reform the inspection of prisons will not allow Ireland to ratify the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture (OPCAT), the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has said. The rights body will become the co-ordinating national preventative mechanism (NPM) u