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Northern Ireland firm Carson McDowell is to be led by Orlagh O'Neill and Declan Magee from next year. Ms O'Neill will succeed Roger McMillan as managing partner and Mr Magee will succeed Neasa Quigley as senior partner with effect from 1 May 2026.

The Taliban has rebuked four Afghan men who dressed up like characters in the British TV series Peaky Blinders for failing to live up to "Afghan and Islamic values". In videos posted to YouTube with captions like "Shelby mode", the friends smoke cigarettes while wearing flat caps, suits and long coa

Lawyers acting for victims of the so-called "Glenanne gang" say they disagree with a report's conclusion that collusion between loyalist paramilitaries and state actors was not systemic. Yesterday's final report from the Operation Kenova investigation into Stakeknife also included the high-level fin

Home support providers are to be regulated for the first time under new legislative plans. Ministers yesterday agreed to publish the Health (Amendment) (Home Support Providers) Bill 2025, which proposes significant amendments to the Health Act 2007.

Belfast-based Phoenix Law is acting for punk-rap duo Bob Vylan in Irish defamation proceedings brought against RTÉ over its coverage of their performance at Glastonbury. Lead singer Pascal Robinson-Foster, known as Bobby Vylan, was accused in an RTÉ News broadcast of leading antisemiti

New legislation is to be introduced to support Ireland's first national policy framework for adult safeguarding in the health and social care sector. The policy framework, published yesterday, aims to expand and strengthen adult safeguarding across the health and social care sector to ensure ad

Children's ombudsman Dr Niall Muldoon has been awarded an honorary doctor from University College Dublin. A clinical psychologist from Donegal with nearly 20 years’ experience in child protection, Dr Muldoon holds a PhD from the UCD School of Psychology, where his research focused on psychothe

Ministers have been accused of rushing through legislation paving the way for Ireland's ratification of the EU-Canada trade deal without proper scrutiny. The Supreme Court ruled in November 2022 that the EU–Canada Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) could only be ratified if changes

Legislation aiming to close "loopholes" said to enable religious institutions to avoid paying a fair share of redress for historic child sexual abuse has been introduced by Labour leader Ivana Bacik. The Civil Liability (Child Sexual Abuse Proceedings Unincorporated Bodies of Persons) Bill 2025 was

Solicitor Conor Bergin has opened a new legal practice in the heart of Portlaoise.

The Law Society of Northern Ireland has marked Human Rights Day by uniting with its counterparts across the UK to call for urgent ratification of a new treaty designed to protect lawyers. The Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of the Profession of Lawyer provides a framework to protect

Google is facing an EU competition probe over its use of online content to help power its generative AI systems, including AI summaries on search result pages. The European Commission will investigate whether Google is distorting competition by imposing unfair terms and conditions on publishers and

American diplomats have been ordered to use Times New Roman in paperwork as Calibri falls victim to Trump's war on wokeness. A diktat circulated by the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, this week ordered a "return to tradition" by all US diplomatic posts.

Northern Ireland firm Cleaver Fulton Rankin has announced five promotions, welcoming two new directors, one new associate director and two senior solicitors. Rachael Gamble and Stuart Nevin, both from the dispute resolution department, have been promoted to director, bringing the firm’s total

A leading human rights lawyer has called for a public inquiry into Stakeknife following the long-awaited publication today of Operation Kenova's final report. "A public inquiry is the only option to take today's Kenova work product to the next stage, otherwise it will have been all in vain," Kevin W