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Family lawyers have welcomed moves towards clearing the backlog of judicial separation and divorce cases in Dublin. Dublin County Registrar Rita Considine will fix hearing dates for cases today, tomorrow and Friday.

Solicitor Dr Muiris Ó Céidigh has been appointed as a member of Mutual Energy, a mutual company which manages strategic energy assets in the long-term interests of Northern Ireland's energy consumers. The company's mutual status means it does not have shareholders. Instead, members are

Proposals on how to fund mediation in non-family civil cases where legal aid has been granted have gone out for consultation. The consultation follows a High Court ruling in 2019 which found that legal aid for mediation is within the scope of a legal aid certificate in non-family cases.

More than three-quarters of Irish businesses are most concerned about their staff being a potential source of data security vulnerability, according to a survey conducted by business law firm Mason Hayes & Curran LLP. The firm surveyed over 200 respondents from industries such as technology, fin

A new chairperson and four new members have been appointed to the board of the Labour Relations Agency (LRA). Gordon Milligan, deputy chief executive of Translink, has been appointed to serve as chair of the board for a three-year term.

Lord Justice Treacy has been appointed to the Northern Ireland Judicial Appointments Commission (NIJAC) for a five-year term. The senior judge replaces Lord Justice Stephens following his appointment to the UK Supreme Court bench last year.

Two former soldiers have been acquitted of murdering Joe McCann in Belfast in April 1972 following the dramatic collapse of their trial. The trial of Soldier A and Soldier C, two former members of the British Army’s Parachute Regiment now in their 70s, opened in Belfast's Laganside Courts in 2

Armagh solicitor Kieran J. Morgan has passed away, less than two years after his retirement from private practice. Mr Morgan was admitted to the roll of solicitors in 1978 and was a principal in K. J. Morgan Solicitors until his retirement in 2019.

Dame Elish Angiolini, the former Lord Advocate of Scotland, has been appointed as the new chair of Reprieve’s board of trustees. She succeeds Lord Wallace of Tankerness in the post.

German teenagers who planned a sophisticated heist to get their hands on school exam papers have received suspended sentences. Three pupils at a school in Bavaria spent months planning a night-time break-in to a safe in their headmaster's office.

The High Court has quashed a decision by the International Protection Appeals Tribunal (IPAT) which refused protection for two Albanian nationals claiming to be the victims of political violence. The court held that the IPAT decision was flawed for several reasons, including that certain findings re

Joe O'Malley has taken up the reins as managing partner of Dublin-based Hayes Solicitors LLP, succeeding David Phelan. Previously head of the firm's litigation and dispute resolution team, Mr O'Malley took up the position with effect from Saturday 1 May.

A new online Irish commercial arbitration service backed by senior barristers and a retired Court of Appeal judge is set to be launched later this week. Mr Justice David Barniville, head of the commercial division of the High Court and the arbitration judge, will speak at the virtual launch event fo

Justice should continue to be administered in person after the pandemic, The Bar of Ireland, the Bar Council of Northern Ireland, the Faculty of Advocates and the Bar Council of England and Wales have said. The four bars said in a statement that they recognised "the justice system has undergone chan

A working group including lawyers, prosecutors and police is set to be established to identify practical measures to reduce the number of non-jury trials taking place in Northern Ireland. Under the Justice and Security (Northern Ireland) Act 2007, the Director of Public Prosecutions can direct that