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The High Court has granted discovery against a defendant in personal injuries proceedings, rejecting a submission that discovery infringed the defendant’s right to self-incrimination. The claim was made by the defendant company that, arising out of a prosecution by the Health and Safety Author

Arthur Cox has announced the appointment of seven new of counsel in Dublin. With effect from yesterday, Suzanne Kearney, Gavin McArdle, Ed McDonagh, Andrew O'Connor, Laura Rafferty, Michael Shovlin and Amelia Walsh have been promoted to of counsel.

Barrister-led GDPR compliance consultancy Briefed.pro has announced plans to invest over £760,000 in its Belfast office following support from Invest NI. Specialising in protecting clients from fines and possible prosecutions, Briefed's data protection compliance products and consultancy servi

The Oireachtas will be asked to renew the legislation underpinning the prosecution of terrorism and organised crime offences in the non-jury Special Criminal Court as the independent review group into its future continues its work. Sections 2 to 4, 6 to 12, 14 and 17 of the Offences against the Stat

Legislation to provide for parental bereavement leave and pay has been introduced to the Northern Ireland Assembly. Under the bill, employees who suffer the loss of a child under the age of 18, or a stillbirth after 24 weeks of pregnancy, will have a statutory entitlement to two weeks' leave and, in

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Ronan Daly Jermyn head Richard Martin has been appointed as a non-executive director of Johnson & Perrott Motor Group. Mr Martin recently commenced his third term as managing partner of RDJ, a position he has held since 2012.

OUTLaw Network, which brings together LGBT+ people and allies in the Irish legal sector, has announced a series of free online events to mark Pride Month 2021.

Ronan Daly Jermyn has launched new scholarships aimed at supporting Black, Asian or minority ethnic law students at University College Cork. The Ronan Daly Jermyn Diversity Scholarship will provide successful students a scholarship of €5,000 as well as a work placement or internship with RDJ.

LGBT+ charities have launched an appeal against the Charity Commission's decision to award charitable status to an organisation they say seeks to "roll back legal protections for trans people". The LGB Alliance, which opposes "new ideologies conflating biological sex with the notion of gender identi

A five-step recipe for asparagus gratin was inadvertently published in the digital version of Belgium's official journal. The recipe, appearing in the middle of regulations on drug and medical device pricing, was spotted by a Belgian lawyer.

The Court of Appeal has ruled that the petitioners to an unsuccessful examinership application must pay 50 per cent of the opposing creditor’s costs in the proceedings. In reaching this conclusion, the court accepted that there was an important public interest aspect to the proceedings but tha

Mr Justice Donal O'Donnell has been named by ministers as the next Chief Justice of Ireland. The Belfast-born judge, who has sat on the Supreme Court since 2010, has been nominated by ministers to succeed Chief Justice Frank Clarke, who will retire on his 70th birthday in October.

Judge Anthony Collins has been nominated for appointment as an Advocate-General of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). The government's decision in April to nominate Advocate-General Gerard Hogan for appointment to the Supreme Court bench will create a vacancy on the CJEU.

Multinational law firm Pinsent Masons has announced the appointment of Lisa Connaughton as head of company secretarial operations in Dublin. Ms Connaughton, who joins from Maples Fiduciary Services and has over 15 years' company secretarial, compliance and governance experience, will boost the firm'