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Wilson Nesbitt has announced five key promotions following continued growth across its real estate & construction, banking & financial services and individual & family life sectors.

The Law Society of Ireland is highlighting a range of evidence-based recommendations in the Dignity Matters Report to address bullying, harassment and sexual harassment in the solicitors’ profession.  Senior vice-president of the Law Society and chairperson of the Law Society’s gend

Justice Minister Heather Humphreys this week received the approval of the Government for the appointment of Alywin Barton to the Garda Síochána Inspectorate. Ms Humphreys brought the nomination to Cabinet following an open competition conducted by the Public Appointments Service, which

The Court of Appeal has upheld an appeal by Clare County Council against a €113,000 damages award for personal injuries sustained in a highway accident. The plaintiff had successfully litigated in the High Court after he had fallen off his bike due to a defective ramp on a highway maintained by

More than 500 solicitors from across Northern Ireland attended the Law Society’s Conveyancing Conference yesterday.

  Gore & Grimes Solicitors LLP has welcomed four new associates to the firm, strengthening its expertise in family law, private client, commercial litigation & dispute resolution, and corporate & commercial.

JMK Solicitors is celebrating 18 years in business this October.

Poland is at loggerheads with the EU again as the rule of law dispute between Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and the bloc deepens. At the European Parliament, Mr Morawiecki clashed with European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen, accusing the EU of blackmail. The incident follows the ruling o

A 96-year-old woman who was a secretary at a Nazi concentration camp has gone on trial for complicity in the murder of more than 11,000 people, weeks after she attempted to flee proceedings. Irmgard Furchner was 18 when she began working at Stutthof camp in Nazi-occupied Poland as secretary to its c

A defence lawyer in Japan is going head to head with a judge who ordered him not to recharge his laptop in court because the electricity supply was "owned by the state". Takashi Takano has appealed to the Tokyo High Court after Taro Kageyama, of the Yokohama District Court, made him unplug his machi

The Public Prosecution Service (PPS) has defended its decision to prosecute veteran Dennis Hutchings over a Troubles shooting. Mr Hutchings, 83, died in Belfast on Monday after contracting Covid.

Anti-abortion protesters could be fined or jailed for harassing women outside hospitals and clinics, under a proposed law, The Times reports. Paul Gavan, the Sinn Féin senator, introduced the safe access zones bill in the Seanad yesterday. It would mandate a 100m buffer zone around relevant p

Legislation permitting the use of e-scooters and electric bikes on Irish roads has been published by the Government. Transport Minister Eamon Ryan published the Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021 yesterday, which provides for a new class of powered personal transporters (PPTs).

Kanye West has legally changed his name to Ye following the approval of a Los Angeles court. He made the request in August, citing personal reasons for the decision.

Scotland's three principal bar associations have voted to opt out of a duty solicitor scheme less than two weeks before the most important conference in the world due to continued mistreatment of defence lawyers, our sister publication Scottish Legal News reports.