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The Environmental Pillar urges the passing of robust and comprehensive SLAPP legislation necessary to protect activists, campaigners & media as the Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation Bill 2026 reaches committee stage today.

The Courts Service has issued a notice regarding the impact on the courts of the public service strike due to take place tomorrow. The notice continues below. 

Carson McDowell has welcomed seven newly qualified solicitors following the successful completion of their training contracts with the firm, marking an important milestone in their legal careers. Steven Burrows, Rebekah Spence, Holly Cooper, Jack Turkington, Reece Simpson, Sarah Logan and Susanna El

Thieves have stolen 30,000 bottles of wine worth €5m (£4.2m) from a prestigious Tuscan winery in what is believed to be Italy’s biggest heist of its kind.

DWF has appointed insurance lawyer David Kennedy as a partner in its Dublin office. Mr Kennedy joins DWF from DAC Beachcroft. Dual-qualified in Ireland and England & Wales, he brings 18 years’ experience advising on the defence of employers’, public, product and motor liability claim

DWF has hosted the second annual conference for the In-House Lawyers Group Northern Ireland (IHLGNI), bringing together in-house legal professionals from across Northern Ireland to explore the impact of artificial intelligence on the legal profession. The conference, which took place on Thursday 8 O

Pinsent Masons has appointed new partner James Quirke to lead its corporate tax team in Dublin. Mr Quirke joins from McCann FitzGerald LLP where he became a partner in 2024. As well as a solicitor, Mr Quirke is a chartered accountant and chartered tax advisor.

The third series of the Irish Courts Podcast is released today with the first episode looking at miscarriages of justice and the Lynskey case. 

Despite progress in prosecutions and victim identification, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) warns that stalled reforms are leaving serious gaps in Ireland’s protection of trafficking victims. The IHREC notes that Ireland remains at Tier 2 in the US Department of State&rs

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has called on justice minister, Jim O’Callaghan, to engage in mediation with solicitors in order to resolve the criminal legal aid dispute. 

A number of leading Irish and international human rights experts will speak at ICEL’s Human Rights Law Conference in partnership with The Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Galway on Thursday 15 October 2026. The Conference will take place in hybrid format.

Applications are now open for the Public Law Internship Programme 2027.

Addleshaw Goddard brought together a select group of general counsel, senior legal professionals and business leaders for a commercial litigation roundtable exploring how artificial intelligence and emerging technologies are reshaping the disputes landscape. The event, held on 8 October at Lennan&rs

In new podcast from the Irish Independent legal affairs editor Shane Phelan talks about an experiment undertaken at the Kilkenny Law Festival where four AI models, Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok were asked to sit as judges of the High Court. The event which took place in Kilkenny Courthouse on Fr

A Birmingham businessman who bought a three-bedroom house from the city council for £395,000 inadvertently acquired a primary school because of a paperwork error, The Daily Mail reports.