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Dublin-based intellectual property law firm FRKelly has announced the appointment of Gavan Ferguson as its managing partner. With expertise in strategic trade mark portfolio management, particularly within the entertainment and healthcare sectors, Mr Ferguson's role will continue to be client-focuse

Proposed legislation allowing for physician-assisted dying in Ireland requires "further safeguards", the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has said. The rights watchdog today published its analysis and recommendations to the Oireachtas justice committee on the Dying with Dignity Bill 2020,

Bid rigging will become a criminal offence in Ireland under new legislation aimed at beefing up anti-competition laws. The Competition (Amendment) Bill 2021 will also grant the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) powers to tackle gun jumping in order to relieve pressure on the Dire

Ronan Daly Jermyn partner Gillian Keating and intern Jamie Wall take a closer look at the EU vaccine contract debacle. With the United Kingdom, Ireland and the rest of Europe, having spent over four years anticipating the would be ‘fall-outs’ of the UK’s decision to approve Brexit,

McKenna & Co Solicitors has announced the appointment of Jack Duhig as a trainee solicitor. Mr Duhig joined the firm during the pandemic as a paralegal after working with a corporate firm and will enter Blackhall Place in September 2021.

Belfast firm McKees has opened its 2021 trainee solicitor programme for applications. Throughout the course of the two-year training contract, trainees will gain experience across its corporate and commercial, banking and financial services, real estate and dispute resolution departments.

Benjamin Bestgen this week explains that the extinction of rights upon death is more complicated a matter than it first seems. See his last jurisprudential primer here. Fans of old-school computer games might still remember Grim Fandango, where the player guides afterlife travel agent Manny Cal

Mafia bosses have ordered ambulance drivers in Naples to stop using their sirens and lights because they are disrupting drug deals. An ambulance in the city was accosted by armed men on motorbikes on Saturday night, The Times reports.

The High Court has refused an application to grant An Bord Pleanála leave to appeal a decision to overturn a planning permission for high-rise accommodation in Finglas. The controversial development permission had previously been quashed in July 2020 by Mr Justice Denis McDonald, who had conc

Ireland's M&A market enjoyed a "bumper year" in 2020 in spite of the Covid-19 pandemic, with 490 transactions worth €55 billion. Flynn O'Driscoll Business Lawyers was the busiest M&A law firm, advising on 53 deals last year, while Arthur Cox advised on deals worth €34 billion.

Family lawyers have welcomed the commencement of remote family court hearings this week. Mr Justice John Jordan, the judge in charge of the family list of the High Court, has published a notice setting out the court's approach to remote hearings from yesterday.

Legislative amendments will be brought forward to allow e-scooters to be used legally in public places in Ireland, Transport Minister Eamon Ryan has announced. Provisions providing for the regulation of e-scooters and e-bikes will be brought into the forthcoming Road Traffic (Miscellaneous Provision

Dr David Begg, a former general secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU), has been appointed as chairperson of the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC). He will serve for a five-year term as the second-ever chairperson of the WRC since its establishment under the landmark Workplace Rel

Employment law solicitor Richard Grogan considers Fixed Term Work Act contracts and their interaction with the Unfair Dismissal Acts 1977-2015 and the Maternity Protection Act 1994. The Labour Court, in a recent case of Akina Dada Wa Africa and Claudia Horeau UDD/18/237, determination number UDD216,

Philip Lee partner Clare Cashin, senior associate Michael Cahill and associate Thompson Barry Doherty provide an overview of the first judgment in Ireland concerning the enforcement of an adjudicator's decision. The decision of Mr Justice Garrett Simons in Gravity Construction Limited v Total Highwa