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Shoosmiths has announced the appointment of M&A specialist Mark Davis as a partner in Belfast. Mr Davis has significant experience in the private equity sector, having worked with a range of clients, including multinational corporates, private equity funds and the offices of wealthy internationa

Justice Minister Helen McEntee is set to become the first Cabinet minister in Irish history to give birth while in office. Ms McEntee announced over the weekend that she is expecting her first child with her husband Paul in May 2021.

Retired English judge Sir Peter Gross has been appointed by the UK government to lead an independent review of the Human Rights Act 1998.

Proposals to introduce new domestic abuse protection notices and orders (DAPNs and DAPOs) in Northern Ireland have been set out in a new consultation document. The new mechanisms are being proposed as a replacement for the domestic violence protection notices and orders (DVPNs and DVPOs) which were

Judges will decide on Wednesday whether a judicial review centred on whether Prime Minister Boris Johnson acted in bad faith by signing the Brexit deal can go ahead. The proceedings have been brought by an anonymous litigant who lives near the border and seeks a court declaration that Mr Johnson sig

Legislation has come into effect in Northern Ireland allowing civil partnerships to be converted into marriages and vice versa. Under The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Northern Ireland) (No. 2) Regulations 2020, same-sex couples can for the first time convert their civil partnerships into marriage

Legal rights group FLAC has reiterated its call for a retrospectively imposed tax liability on claims for the Covid Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) to be dropped. A legal opinion published by FLAC last month warned that the retrospective provisions of section 3 of the Finance Bill 2020 could be

Nearly a quarter of a million people are waiting for their court cases to be heard in London, new figures show. The logjam was revealed as mayor Sadiq Khan called on the UK government to create a “large-scale, secure facility” to begin processing high-priority cases.

Police are under fire for posting a photo on social media of a Christmas tree decorated with mugshots. A sheriff's department in the US state of Alabama called the Facebook photos "thugshots".

The High Court has ruled that a liquidator overcharged a company by more than €860,000 for services in a members’ voluntary liquidation and ordered him to repay the money. The judge, Ms Justice Nuala Butler, described the fees as “vastly disproportionate” to the work that had

Carson McDowell has announced eighteen promotions, including ten senior associates and eight associates across its teams.

Most of the sexual offences cases in which convictions were set aside just over two months ago after a legislative error came to light will not return to court, prosecutors have announced. The Public Prosecution Service (PPS) yesterday announced the outcome of its review of the 15 cases involving 17

Donal Dunne, associate at Eugene F Collins, looks at recent decisions with implications for UK-headquartered retail businesses. A number of recent High Court decisions in applications to restructure Irish retail businesses are of potential importance for those retail businesses whose parent company

HHD Solicitors has announced the promotion of John O’Kelly to associate solicitor. Mr O'Kelly graduated from the University of Ulster in 2010 with a 2:1 in Law with Politics and qualified as a solicitor in 2013. 

A former midwifery student at Queen's University Belfast has settled a disability discrimination case against the university for £20,000. Sarah Walker, who lives with cystic fibrosis, brought the case with support from the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland (ECNI).