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Seven vacancies on the board of the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) will be filled by next week at the latest, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has said. The board has been unable to meet since September 2021 due to the unfilled vacancies because it is unable to reach the quorum to make decisions.

Legislation to expand Northern Ireland's spent convictions regime will be brought forward following strong support in a consultation, justice minister Naomi Long has announced. New legislation will reduce the length of time that it will take for some convictions to become spent and allow more senten

The Department of Justice is the only Executive department facing cuts in Northern Ireland's draft budget for 2022-25, an independent watchdog has said. An analysis by the Northern Ireland Fiscal Council found that justice would see its funding cut by between one and two per cent while other departm

Ordained lawyer Reverend Robert Marshall has been appointed as diocesan and provincial registrar in the Church of Ireland's United Dioceses of Dublin and Glendalough. The provincial and diocesan registrar is part of the legal team of the United Dioceses of Dublin and Glendalough and of the wider Pro

Irish solicitor Claire O'Brien has been appointed as lead commercial counsel at Dublin-headquartered fintech company Wayflyer. Wayflyer, with offices in the US and across the EU, provides a range of financing and market analytics tools designed to equip eCommerce businesses with the working capital

Women have been banned from the front seats of trucks in Uganda after being branded a road hazard. Ugandan authorities have claimed male truck drivers are liable to be distracted by women wearing revealing clothing in their driver's cabin, Kenya's The Star reports.

Professor Conor Gearty, of LSE, has surveyed the jurisprudence of the UK Supreme Court under Lord Reed's leadership, suggesting that it has "reverted to an approach rooted in legal formalism, an extremely narrow reading of the rule of law, while displaying an old-school lack of interest in the lived

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Chinese rights lawyer Xie Yang detained for ‘inciting state subversion’ | Hong Kong Free Press

A special joint Oireachtas committee is being established by ministers to make recommendations on international surrogacy. There is currently no regulation of surrogacy, either altruistic or commercial, in Ireland. The Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill will regulate surrogacy within Ireland,

Corporate law firm Philip Lee has announced the appointment of Leonora Mullett as a partner in its planning and environmental department. Ms Mullett has extensive knowledge of planning and environmental law, local government law, litigation, dispute resolution and public law, with significant experi

Physical court hearings are due to resume on a "phased basis" from Monday following a month dominated by Covid-19 disruption. Criminal jury trials in the Central Criminal Court and in the Circuit Court, and civil proceedings in the Court of Appeal, will be heard by way of a physical hearing from Mon

The Irish Society for European Law (ISEL) will next month host a careers event highlighting opportunities for Irish lawyers within the EU. The Zoom webinar will be chaired by Judge Eugene Regan of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and will hear from speakers:

Kerida Naidoo SC has been nominated for appointment as an ordinary judge of the High Court. His appointment will increase the size of the bench, having been appointed to fill a vacancy created under section 8 of the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2021, which allows the statutory complement

Arthur Cox has announced the appointment of Richard Armstrong and Chris Fullerton as corporate and commercial partners in Belfast. Mr Armstrong and Mr Fullerton have both worked at the firm for almost a decade, providing legal counsel to a range of clients in Northern Ireland, throughout the UK and

A committee of the House of Lords has called for the creation of a revitalised, better-functioning and less rancorous United Kingdom in a new report. In Respect and Co-operation: Building a Stronger Union for the 21st century, published today, the Constitution Committee details a series of reforms t