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Protecting the basic human right of liberty "must be a priority" in the roll-out of new capacity law reforms, a conference hosted by the Law Society of Northern Ireland has heard. The Elder Law and Capacity Conference in Belfast brought together representatives from the legal, health and voluntary/c

The most senior family judge in England and Wales has appealed to law firms to make donations to a legal charity to help tackle delays in the family courts. Sir Andrew McFarlane, president of the family division, said that "modest annual contributions" to Support Through Court, a charity providing f

Financial regulators in Ireland and the US want institutions to speak up about culture change, a conference hosted by Eversheds Sutherland has heard. The law firm sponsored the well-attended "Regulating Banking Culture" conference at UCD Sutherland School of Law, which comprised a series of roundtab

Hundreds of Crown Court judges in England and Wales face disqualification because they have not spent enough time hearing trials. Recorders must sit for at least 15 or 30 days per year, depending on experience, to keep their role.

A Scottish lawyer who says she suffered “psychiatric injury” while working at the Crown Office is to have her £1.3 million damages claim against the Lord Advocate heard at the Court of Session in Edinburgh. Laura Malone, 53, argues that the Lord Advocate, James Wolffe QC, is vicari

Police officers in New York City will swap their notebooks for an iPhone app in a move upending a century of tradition. The iconic "memo book" in which officers have taken handwritten notes since the 1800s will be scrapped next Monday, The New York Times reports.

The Ministry of Defence has lost an appeal against the award of £15,000 compensatory damages and aggravated damages to the widow of Bernard McGuigan, who was shot dead on Bloody Sunday. Dismissing the appeal, Lord Justice Bernard McCloskey said that Mr McGuigan was capable of being a victim of

The new Judicial Council will "authoritatively assert judicial independence and respect for the rule of law should it ever come under threat", Chief Justice Frank Clarke has told its inaugural meeting. The entire Irish judiciary attended the plenary meeting at the King's Inns this morning, where the

The Supreme Court is hearing an appeal from two people who came to Ireland as refugees but subsequently naturalised as Irish citizens and were subsequently denied access to the family reunification scheme. Ms Justice Marie Baker, sitting in the Court of Appeal, ruled against 'MAM' and 'KN' last May.

Personal injury and road traffic accident specialist firm JMK Solicitors has named Cancer Fund for Children as its charity partner for 2020. The charity provides practical and emotional support to young people up to 24 years old who have been diagnosed with cancer, as well as young people who have a

DWF's highest earner took home a profit share of £1 million for the period 2018/19, The Lawyer reports. The accounts relate to the firm's UK operations, in addition to offices in Belgium, Italy, Qatar and Singapore.

Michael Murphy, litigation partner at Holmes O'Malley Sexton Solicitors, weighs up a recent decision of the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) in England. In both Ireland and England, where a solicitor makes a mistake and their insurer authorises them to seek to resolve the deficiency, where tha

A former barrister who returned home to County Kerry and pursued a new career as a sustainable artist and fashion designer has celebrated a year of award-winning success. Christine O'Donoghue de Vries, a graduate of UCC School of Law and the King's Inns, founded House of Kerry in 2016, drawing inspi

Environmentalists at Yale Law School have joined peers at Harvard Law School in a campaign targeting recruitment events for Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP until the international law firm drops ExxonMobil as a client. The firm, which employs over 1,000 lawyers, has successfully def

On Wednesday 7 January 1761, Dorcas Kelly (also known as Darkey Kelly) was executed near St Stephens Green in Dublin. Darkey was a sex worker and “brothel keeper” who had been found guilty of the murder of a shoemaker called John Dowling the previous year, and her sentence was “to