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A final costs order in the high-profile 'Wagatha Christie' case between Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy could be up to two years away, according to a specialist costs lawyer. Mrs Vardy sued Mrs Rooney after she was publicly accused of leaking details of her personal life to The Sun. The High Court i

An employment tribunal in England has thrown out a claim by an "anti-woke" barrister who was expelled from his chambers after tweeting about a "stroppy teenager of colour". Jon Holbrook, formerly of Cornerstone Chambers, made the comment in relation to a news story about a young woman who took her s

A senior New Zealand judge who was appointed to the Dubai International Finance Centre (DIFC) Courts alongside Ireland's Frank Clarke and Peter Kelly has followed them in resigning. Sir William Young, a former judge of the New Zealand Supreme Court who is well known for leading an inquiry into the 2

A woman has settled a case of age and sex discrimination against Domino's Pizza in Strabane with the support of the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland. Justin Quirk, then-owner of DP Strabane t/a Domino's Pizza, has paid £4,250 and apologised to Janice Walsh, who was asked about her age

P.A. Duffy & Co has announced the appointment of Sean Kelly as its new finance and marketing manager. Bringing more than 25 years' experience as a finance manager in the legal industry, Mr Kelly will manage all financial aspects of the all-Ireland law firm while enhancing its financial controls

Professor Laurent Pech has been appointed as the incoming Dean at UCD Sutherland School of Law. Taking over the role from Dr Niamh Howlin in October, Professor Pech will serve for a three-year term, after which he will then hold a continuing appointment as full professor of law.

Solicitor Deirdre-Ann Barr has been appointed as chairperson of the Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS). Ms Barr previously worked as general counsel and head of risk in Matheson and has been a member of the board of the IBTS since March 2019.

A retired Scottish judge has been urged to follow the example of Ireland's former chief justice Frank Clarke and former High Court president Peter Kelly in resigning from the Dubai International Finance Centre (DIFC) Courts. Lord Glennie, who retired as a Senator of the College of Justice in 2020, w

James McGovern has joined immigration consultancy Fragomen Ireland as a senior immigration consultant. Prior to joining Fragomen, Mr McGovern provided advice and assistance to non-EEA nationals across a broad range of areas including international protection, naturalisation, domestic immigration per

Lord Lloyd-Jones has been re-appointed to the UK Supreme Court alongside new justice Sir David Richards. The retired justice's reappointment has been made possible the increasing of the mandatory judicial retirement age earlier this year from 70 to 75.

The UK government must reveal more passages of internal documents assessing the human rights situation in Rwanda which were drawn up before ministers adopted a controversial asylum policy, a court has ruled. Lawyers acting for foreign secretary Liz Truss had asked the High Court to grant public inte

A partner at a City of London firm has been sanctioned for wrongly advising her clients that they could share a Zoom link for a remote court hearing. Ziva Robertson, partner at US-headquartered McDermott Will & Emery, received a written rebuke from the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) on Mo

A university library's prized manuscript by Galileo has been identified as a forgery. The University of Michigan Library described the document as one of its "great treasures", believing it to be a draft of a letter sent by Galileo to the Doge of Venice in 1609.

Proposals to enshrine the right to housing in the Constitution are based on a "gross untruth" and are not necessary to tackle the housing crisis, barrister and politician, Michael McDowell has said. Writing in The Irish Times, the senator and former justice minister and attorney general said such a

Thousands of victims of the infected blood scandal will each receive an interim compensation payment of £100,000, the UK government has announced. Payments will be made in England by the end of October, while the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will have respon