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Irish lawyer Joe Gavin has departed from his role as partner and head of financial services at ByrneWallace to take up a role as chief executive officer of the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA). With over 26 years' experience as a financial services lawyer, Mr Gavin, who takes up the role fr

Queen's University Belfast School of Law has been admitted as a member to the prestigious Law Schools Global League (LSGL). Founded in 2012 by a group of leading law schools, the LSGL brings together institutions that share a commitment to integrating global law into their teaching and research.

Comyn Kelleher Tobin partner Sinead Fitzgerald and intern Mary Maunsell examine a recent High Court judgment on spousal maintenance and "proper provision". A High Court decision in which the wife of a dairy farmer was awarded €800 per month for a four-year period in spousal maintenance was rece

Lisa Bryson, partner and head of employment law at Eversheds Sutherland in Belfast, warns employers to be aware of the potential issues around vaccines. The issue of mandatory vaccines in the workplace has provoked lots of discussion, debate and concern. Tech giants Google and Facebook have told th

Our regular round-up of deals involving Irish law firms. Submit your deals to newsdesk@irishlegal.com. European law firm Fieldfisher has advised Irish developer Simply Blue on a €15 million deal with clean energy investment house Octopus Renewables.

Employment lawyer Lizzie Colvin has just returned to Belfast after a few weeks in Tokyo, where she represented Ireland in the women's Olympic hockey team. Ms Colvin, who works with DWF, discusses how she moved into employment law and how she manages to juggle her professional, sporting and home life

The construction supply chain struggled to keep up with increasing new housing and infrastructure development in the second quarter of 2021, a new report from RICS and commercial law firm Tughans has found. With total workloads showing strong growth, there were also problems reported with the cost o

A woman who prominently accused the late billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse has launched a lawsuit against Prince Andrew for allegedly sexually assaulting her when she was 17 years old. Virginia Giuffre, one of the most outspoken accusers of Mr Epstein, the disgraced American f

A notorious mafia matriarch known as "The Godmother" has been arrested while attempting to flee Italy for Spain. Maria Licciardi, 70, was taken into custody at Rome Ciampino Airport as she was boarding a flight to Malaga, according to reports.

Health minister Stephen Donnelly has denied that plans to legislate for exclusion zones around abortion clinics have been dropped. A spokesperson for the Department of Health had earlier suggested to the Irish Examiner that "existing public order legislation" could deal with protests outside healthc

Law graduate Mark O'Sullivan was shot and killed by his brother and his father in a dispute over the inheritance of the family farm, an inquest has ruled. The inquest last week returned a verdict of unlawful killing in the case of Mark O'Sullivan and suicide in the cases of brother Diarmuid O'S

An increasing number of women are bringing cases to the Employment Tribunal which cite menopause as the reason for unfair dismissal and direct sex discrimination. New data show that there were five tribunals that detailed the claimant's menopause in 2018, six in 2019 and 16 in 2020. This year has al

Three women judges have made history in Wales after sitting as part of the criminal division of the Court of Appeal – the first time it has sat in Wales comprising all women.

A new offence of "pet abduction" is to be created to address the escalating problem of dognapping. Justice Secretary Robert Buckland QC MP's legislation will reflect the fact that stealing a pet can be cruel to the animal and traumatic to its owner.

An Iranian official accused of helping to oversee mass executions of dissidents in the 1980s will go on trial in Sweden tomorrow, The Times reports. Hamid Nouri, 60, was arrested in November 2019 upon arriving at Stockholm airport on a trip to see relatives.