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LK Shields has welcomed Alice Pelissier, Redmond Arigho and Hugh MacDonagh as associate solicitors following the completion of their traineeships at the firm.

The full implementation of Sir John Gillen's recommendations for improving serious sexual offence trials in Northern Ireland "will take time", Justice Minister Naomi Long has said. The retired Court of Appeal judge issued his final report almost a year ago, making over 250 recommendations including

Court clerks and court assistants at the Laganside, Antrim, Ballymena and Coleraine courthouses are on strike today. Public sector trade union NIPSA said selective action in certain areas of the Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunals Service is taking place as part of its broader dispute over civil s

Gardaí have gained access to the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) and the Labour Court to resolve industrial relations disputes. Under the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act 2019, which was enacted on Saturday, Garda members now have access through their representative associations.

Dr Catherine O'Rourke will take over as director of Ulster University's Transitional Justice Institute later this month. The senior lecturer in human rights and international law succeeds Professor Rory O'Connell at the head of the law-led multidisciplinary research centre, which focuses on "transit

Corporate law firm A&L Goodbody's Belfast office advised on deals worth £1.1 billion last year, greater in value than any other law firm in Northern Ireland for a sixth consecutive year. From 2014 to 2019, the Belfast office has advised on deals totalling over £6 billion, according t

Law student Gary Simpson has been named the inaugural winner of the Eversheds Sutherland Prize at Queen's University Belfast. Global law firm Eversheds Sutherland, with offices in Belfast and Dublin, will award the prize for three years to the student enrolled on the LLM International Business Law w

A third of courthouses in England and Wales have been closed in the past decade and sold to raise up to £250 million, new research indicates. The number of courts fell from 923 in 2010 to 628 by the end of 2019, The Times reports.

A serious fire occurred at the headquarters of the Law Society of England and Wales in London on Saturday night. Eleven people were evacuated from the building, which also houses The Law Society Gazette, as 150 firefighters fought the blaze at Chancery Lane at around 10:40 pm.

An item of jewellery has become the bane of a police force after it appealed for help in finding its "rightful owner". The item in question is a replica of the One Ring from The Lord of the Rings.

The decision taken by An Bord Pleanála to overturn planning permission granted to a Scientology-linked group for a drug rehab facility has been quashed in the High Court. Finding that the board’s decision was a collateral attack on an earlier decision made by Meath County Council, Mr Ju

Carson McDowell has announced the promotion of Catherine Carton to partner in the firm's defence insurance team. Ms Carton, who qualified in 1999, specialises in the defence of employer’s liability and public liability claims, with a particular interest in claims arising in the retail, enginee

UK firm Shoosmiths has announced the appointment of real estate lawyer Mark Blair as a partner in the firm's Belfast office. Mr Blair is well-known in the Northern Ireland property market and his appointment is a key hire in broadening the firm's skill base and profile in the region, Shoosmiths said

A new report assessing whether the lack of third-party litigation funding and class actions in Ireland is a barrier to litigation has been launched by Chief Justice Frank Clarke. International legal experts were welcomed to Dublin to launch the report from the EU Bar Association Ireland and the Iris

Joanne Ryan, associate at William Fry, examines a recent decision that answers a question that arose for practitioners from the Supreme Court judgment in Merck Sharp & Dohme. As my colleagues have discussed previously (here and here), the recent decision of the Supreme Court in Merck Sharp &