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UCC School of Law has been recognised for its efforts to promote gender equality with a Bronze Athena SWAN Award. The department-level award was granted following a submission process involving a robust self-assessment that identified gender equality challenges and opportunities relating to staff an

Conor McGregor has failed in a legal fight with a clothing firm over sportswear that bears his name. The 31-year-old MMA fighter applied to register his name as a trademark in order to sell clothing in Europe.

New "sobriety tags" which detect whether offenders have broken drinking bans will be rolled out across England following their successful rollout in Wales last year. The legislation underpinning the use of the tags in cases of alcohol-fuelled crime came into force last May and the tags became availa

All but one of President Joe Biden's first judicial nominees are women or from ethnic minorities, in line with his commitment to diversify the bench. Mr Biden yesterday unveiled 11 nominees for the Federal Circuit, the District Court and the Superior Court for the District of Columbia, of whom nine

A wanted mafia man has been caught by police after being identified as the mystery host of a YouTube cooking show. Marc Feren Claude Biart, sought on cocaine trafficking charges since 2014, had been sharing Italian cooking tips on a channel he started with his wife.

Employment and labour law expert Professor Michael Doherty has been appointed to chair a high-level government review of Ireland's collective bargaining and industrial relations landscape. The Maynooth University academic will be joined on a working group by representatives of the Irish Congress of

Matheson has established a dedicated advisory group to support clients with environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. Led by 12 partners, the new group – possibly the first of its kind in Ireland – is chaired by Garret Farrelly, who also leads the firm's energy, natural resource

A new chairperson will be appointed to the Labour Relations Agency (LRA) in May following a one-month extension to the current chair's term. Economy Minister Diane Dodds yesterday announced that Marie Mallon would remain in place as chair of the LRA board until 30 April 2021.

A solicitor who has called for justice reforms based on her own experience as a survivor of a violent sexual attack has met with Justice Minister Helen McEntee to discuss her recommendations. Sarah Grace was just starting her legal career as a newly-qualified solicitor with a major Dublin law firm w

Maples and Calder, the Maples Group's law firm in Ireland, has welcomed 10 newly-qualified lawyers.

Law student Brian Daly has been awarded the prestigious Holmes O'Malley Sexton Scholarship at the University of Limerick (UL). The scholarship has been awarded by Holmes O'Malley Sexton Solicitors, which has an office in Limerick, every year for more than two decades.

Long-awaited gender pay gap reporting legislation is set to be strengthened through new government amendments. Ministers yesterday agreed to bring report stage amendments to the Gender Pay Gap Information Bill, which was first published in 2019 but had its progress through the Oireachtas disrupted b

William Fry lawyers Patrick Murphy and Laura Flanagan talk about spectator litigation in sport where spectators are struck by golf balls, rugby balls or ice hockey pucks while attending sporting events. While litigation taken by spectators is relatively rare in Ireland, it has arisen in golf, i

US attorney Domnhall O'Cathain, who hails from Co Cork, has been elected president of the Brehon Law Society of New York. Mr O'Cathain is a partner in the personal injury department of New Jersey-based Marzano-Lesnevich, O'Cathain & O'Cathain LLC.

Benjamin Bestgen this week discusses violence against women. See his last primer here. One of the fundamental justifications for permitting an organised state, government and law enforcement to exist is that these institutions, and the people who serve in them, are meant to guarantee public safety.