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Government officials are still considering the recommendations of two rival reports on civil legal aid reform published more than six months ago, Jim O'Callaghan has said. The justice, home affairs and migration minister told a major conference on Monday that reform was on its way, but said he was u

Lawyers have called on Labour leader Ivana Bacik to pressure her British counterpart, Keir Starmer, on behalf of Palestine solidarity activists on hunger strike in UK prisons. Irish Lawyers for Palestine, made up of legal practitioners and academics north and south of the border, yesterday appealed

The Hibernian Law Journal is now accepting submissions to be considered for publication in Volume 25. Established in 1999, the Hibernian Law Journal is a legal journal co-ordinated by trainee and qualified solicitors.

Draft legislation proposing the "most significant reform of Irish asylum laws in the history of the State" has been published by the government. The International Protection Bill 2026 will completely replace the International Protection Act 2015 with new legislation in line with the EU Migration and

Five organisations working to promote inclusion and strengthen communities have been named as the awardees of a €1.5 million fund backed by Mason Hayes & Curran. The Connected Communities Fund was created by Mason Hayes & Curran and Rethink Ireland, with matched funding from the Departm

Northern Ireland firm Davidson McDonnell has appointed Kirsten Magee as a legal director within its disputes resolution team. Ms Magee is an expert commercial litigator with a background in advising both private and public sector clients on a wide range of complex, high value disputes.

Claudio Visco has been appointed as president of the International Bar Association (IBA). Mr Visco, a senior partner at Italian law firm Lipani Legal&Tax, has succeeded Jaime Carey, senior partner at Chilean law firm Carey.

The US Department of War has demanded that a Canadian sex shop stop accepting orders from US soldiers stationed in Bahrain. Grace Bennett and Katie Aitken, co-founders of Toronto-based Bonjibon, say they have proudly framed two official US government letters reminding them that "pornographic materia

Cycling groups have called on a judge to withdraw his remarks that cyclists "have become a nightmare in Dublin". Judge James O'Donohoe made the remarks in the Dublin Circuit Civil Court as he ruled on a personal injury action brought by a cyclist who suffered a brain injury following a collision wit

Lawyer and councillor Maurice Dockrell is to deliver a letter of condemnation to the Iranian embassy today on behalf of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council. Mr Dockrell, who is qualified as a solicitor and a barrister, is a Fine Gael councillor for the Blackrock ward, where the Irania

Business group Ibec is to sponsor the Dublin European Law Institute (DELI) at Dublin City University under a new three-year partnership. The sponsorship deal will support the DELI's critical research and policy work in the field of European defence, industrial policy, economic competitiveness and pr

A proposed new scale of fees for environmental judicial reviews should be immediately withdrawn by the government, two leading environmental groups have said. An Taisce and Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE) say the proposals published in December 2025 would effectively cap the legal costs that

All new proposals for new-build social housing projects up to €200 million will now be dealt with under a single approval process. The new system is intended to cut delays, streamline delivery and accelerate the construction of new social homes.

The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) has cleared the proposed acquisition of Alpha Media by Iconic Media. Alpha Media Group Limited is a locally-owned weekly newspaper group in Northern Ireland which publishes 13 newspapers, website and social media sites, all circulating outsid

Northern Ireland's justice minister, Naomi Long, has again threatened to introduce "alternative models for delivery of services provided by the criminal bar" in response to the barristers' strike. Mrs Long yesterday told MLAs that she is set to meet with the chair and vice-chair of the Criminal Bar