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Fieldfisher Ireland has appointed Barry Fagan as head of its public and regulatory department. Mr Fagan, who has been a partner in the firm since 2017, will take up the new role from 1 July 2025.

Irish and American researchers have published the findings from a series of focus group discussions with senior UK judges about courtroom AI. Dr Brian Flanagan, the Maynooth University associate law professor who made waves with his research on the influence of Wikipedia on judicial decision-ma

The Law Society of Ireland is bringing together legal experts, senior members of government, and international analysts in geopolitics and extremism to examine threats to democracy at its first-ever summer school. The two-day event, taking place under the title "Defending Democracy: Legal Responses

William Fry partner Myra Garrett SC has been recognised as Ireland's top M&A lawyer of the year at the IFLR Women in Business Law Awards 2025 in London. Ms Garrett is a partner in the firm's corporate/M&A department and was previously the firm's managing partner from 2008 to 2014.

The social protection minister has come under further pressure to justify why legislation brought in response to a Supreme Court ruling will remove social welfare entitlements of divorced and separated lone parents. The Bereaved Partner's Pension Bill 2025 has been introduced by the government in re

The Cambodian government is deliberately ignoring human rights abuses including slavery, human trafficking, child labour and torture that are being carried out by criminal gangs on a vast scale in more than 50 scamming compounds located across the country, Amnesty International said in a new report

Lavelle Partners LLP has relocated its Dublin headquarters to new offices at Bankside on Charlemont Street.

Banks alleging that solicitors had failed to comply with undertakings were largely responsible for a 14 per cent increase in complaints to the Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) last year. The regulator's latest annual report reveals that it received 1,476 complaints in 2024, the fifth full

Landmark reforms to mental health law have cleared a significant legislative milestone. The 202-section Mental Health Bill 2024, which will replace the Mental Health Act 2001, completed committee stage in the Dáil yesterday evening.

A hotel in China has been ordered to stop waking guests by placing red pandas in their rooms. The unique wake-up service offered by Chongqing-based Lehe Ledu Liangjiang Holiday Hotel has become a hit with tourists and influencers.

Ministers have set out their proposals to ban the importation of goods from illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The general scheme of the Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill has now been published.

Plans to implement the final phase of the government's "Zero Tolerance" strategy to tackle domestic, sexual and gender-based violence (DSGBV) have been set out. The targeted implementation plan published today contains 95 actions across the strategy’s four pillars of "protection, prevention, p

More resources are urgently needed in the family law system, a leading solicitor has said after new figures from Women's Aid revealed reports of domestic violence are at a record high. Women's Aid said its national and regional frontline services were contacted 32,144 times in 2024, an increase of 1

Plans to establish a permanent non-jury court may require approval through a constitutional referendum, the government has been warned. The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has called on the justice minister, Jim O'Callaghan, to clarify whether he plans to hold a referendum after he last mon

Belfast firm Davidson McDonnell has celebrated 10 years since its establishment. Established by Ross Davidson and David McDonnell in 2015, the firm now provides corporate/M&A, property, commercial litigation and banking advice to many of Northern Ireland's largest business names.