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Lawyers for the relatives of two victims of the Troubles have sought to have their challenge to the UK government's controversial legacy plans heard in the UK Supreme Court. Patricia Burns, daughter of Thomas Burns, and Daniel McCready, nephew of James McCann, had their case rejected by Northern Ire

Tributes have been paid to Northern Ireland media law expert Paul McDonnell after he passed away on Thursday. Mr McDonnell, formerly a partner at McKinty and Wright (now part of DAC Beachcroft) and a consultant at Carson McDowell, had been an in-house lawyer at the Belfast Telegraph and Sunday Life

Arthur Cox has been named Ireland Law Firm of the Year at the 2022 IFLR Europe Awards.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin joined Matheson at the official opening of its new state-of-the-art premises in Cork, located at Penrose Dock in the heart of the city centre. The new riverside office, incorporating a mixture of shared offices, shared desk zones, staff canteen, client lounge and clie

More than 50 human rights organisations have written to the UK government ahead of an expected announcement on the scrapping of the landmark Human Rights Act 1998. A bill allowing judges to disregard case law from the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) is expected to be included in the Queen's S

Police are on the hunt for a green-fingered burglar who mowed his victim's front and back gardens before fleeing. The suspect, named as Marcus Renard Hubbard, was caught on CCTV taking a lawnmower from a home, filling it up with petrol and then mowing the lawn, police say.

Prime minister Boris Johnson has been accused of undermining the rule of law after claiming left-wing “legal eagles” were trying to thwart his plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda. I. Stephanie Boyce, president of the Law Society, said it was "misleading and dangerous for the prime min

More than 500kg of cocaine worth in excess of 50 million Swiss francs (€48m) has been found in a container of coffee bean bags bound for Nestle's Nespresso factory in Romont in western Switzerland. Police were told on Monday by Nespresso that staff had found a white substance while unloading th

A solicitor has called for period payment order (PPO) legislation to be revised to link payments to wage inflation rather than consumer prices. David O'Malley, a partner at Callan Tansey Solicitors, made the call outside the High Court after judges approved a third interim payment to his client Ruby

European law firm Fieldfisher has announced plans to double the size of its Belfast office's graduate legal professional programme following the successful completion of the scheme's first year. All five inductees in the scheme's first programme, run in partnership with the University of Law, secure

Irish barrister Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh, who practises in London, has been shortlisted for Barrister of the Year at The Lawyer Awards 2022. Ms Ní Ghrálaigh, who was interviewed as our Lawyer of the Month in February, is a human rights and international law specialist with a b

Information to assist bereaved families involved with the inquest process has been published by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. The new Information Note on the Rights of Families at Inquest gives families a road-map of the existing law, standards and procedures that apply at inquests

The Law Reform Commission has launched an annual access internship aimed at promoting wider access to entering the legal professions. Following a successful pilot in 2021, the law reform body said it had decided to play a part in widening access by running the internship, open to final year law stud

The UK Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal in a high-profile case aimed at preventing the prescription of puberty-blocking drugs to transgender children under the age of 16. In Bell v Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, lawyers for Keira Bell – a woman who said she regretted taking pubert

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