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Maples and Calder, the Maples Group's law firm, has announced the promotion of three new partners and two new of counsel in Ireland. Eugene McCormick and Karole Cuddihy have been appointed as partners in the dispute resolution and insolvency practice, while Morgan Pierse has been appointed as a corp

The Public Interest Law Alliance (PILA) has announced the appointment of South African lawyer Shamika Dwarika as its new pro bono development officer. Ms Dwarika relocated to Ireland to join PILA, a project of legal rights group FLAC, after seven-and-a-half years as regional director of NGO ProBono.

The Senate has unanimously passed a bill to make lynching a federal hate crime after more than a century of attempts to do so. The Emmett Till Antilynching Act provides that the crime will be punishable by up to 30 years in prison.

A Spanish TV station has apologised after a quiz show asked contestants to guess the street value of a gram of cocaine. Atrapame Se Podes, or Catch Me if You Can, a popular show in Galicia, features topical questions and a prize pot of €25,000.

As the US passes a bill named for a young boy whose brutal racist murder shocked America and the wider world, ILN takes at look at the the case and the injustice that followed. On August 28, 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American boy from Chicago, was tortured and murdered by t

Judge Peter Smithwick, a former president of the District Court and chairman of the Smithwick Tribunal, has passed away. The Irish Times has published a full obituary. "The Co Kilkenny native, who was born in 1937, came from a family who are a prominent part of the landed gentry of the county. The f

Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has offered a formal apology to people accused of witchcraft between the 16th and 18th centuries. She told MSPs at Holyrood that it could legislate to pardon those who were convicted and in many cases executed.

Staff at ByrneWallace LLP have benefited from enhanced family-friendly benefits introduced in the past 12 months, the firm announced yesterday to coincide with International Women's Day. The firm has enhanced maternity and paternity leave, and introduced paid leave to support both men and women in t

Immigration barristers in Ireland have joined colleagues from across the European Union in offering pro bono legal assistance to Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion. The Immigration, Asylum & Citizenship Bar Association (IACBA) is coordinating and inviting practitioners to participate on a r

Addleshaw Goddard, which last week completed a merger with Eugene F Collins LLP, has announced the appointment of Eoghan Ó hArgáin, Neil Bourke and Stephen McLoughlin as partners in its Dublin office. The new appointments expand the firm's expertise in key areas of EU, competition and

Non-EEA doctors will be able to access a Stamp 4 permit after just two years of working in Ireland instead of the current five years under changes to working arrangements and immigration permissions. The move, which will benefit up to 1,800 doctors in the State, aims to reduce the administrative bur

The most significant changes to Northern Ireland's gambling laws in nearly 40 years have been approved by MLAs. The Betting, Gaming, Lotteries and Amusements (Amendment) Bill, presented as the first in a two-phase approach to the reform of gambling regulation in Northern Ireland, completed its final

Legislation to prevent an increase in motor insurance premiums in Northern Ireland has cleared Stormont and is expected to become law by May. The Motor Vehicles (Compulsory Insurance) Bill aims to ensure that domestic statutory provision on compulsory motor insurance, as contained in the 1981 Road T

A new legal framework for environmental governance and accountability in Northern Ireland following Brexit has been introduced. The Environment (2021 Act) (Commencement and Saving Provision) Order (Northern Ireland) 2022 places statutory duties on DAERA to publish an Environmental Improvement Plan (

A Congolese man has married triplets after they proposed to him simultaneously. The mononymic Luwizo told Afrimax English he thought he "was dreaming".