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ByrneWallace LLP has congratulated five of its trainees on their admission to the roll of solicitors.

Business law firm Flynn O'Driscoll has welcomed eight new solicitors following the completion of their training.

The Irish Judicial Studies Journal has become the first Irish law journal to be included in the prestigious Scopus index of peer-reviewed journals. Scopus is Elsevier's abstract and citation database and inclusion in the database is a mark of quality in itself. Publications in the index are reviewed

Marie Kinsella, partner at commercial law firm Philip Lee, welcomes a major review of the management of clinical negligence claims. The much-anticipated final Expert Group Report to Review the Law of Torts and the Current Systems for the Management of Clinical Negligence Claims, chaired by Mr Justic

Millions of leaseholders will be given the right to extend their lease by a maximum term of 990 years at zero ground rent under the "biggest reforms to English property law for 40 years". At present, the right to a lease extension enables a lease to be extended by 50 years in the case of a house and

The US Justice Department has said it would not rule out pursuing President Trump over his possible role in encouraging rioters to storm the US Capitol on Wednesday.

The National Crime Agency has succeeded in an action under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 to recover monies from the frozen bank account of a former English car sales company as the proceeds of unlawful conduct. Niche Cars Ltd, which had its registered office in Bradford and had

A pair of bungling burglars were arrested after accidentally calling the police on themselves, police have said. Two men in their 40s were arrested in the English city of Stoke-on-Trent after receiving a "suspicious call" on Wednesday night, The Guardian reports.

In an “unhappy case in which a family has relocated from a non-EU/EEA state to Ireland, where things have not gone well thus far”, the High Court has held that it is not within its jurisdiction to vary a barring order ordered by the District Court in the manner sought by the man subject

The previous head of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has been named as one of two new appointees to the Garda Siochána Ombudsman Commission (Gsoc). Emily Logan, who was chief commissioner of the human rights watchdog for five years until 2019, will join former PSNI officer Hugh

McCann FitzGerald has congratulated 15 newly-qualified solicitors on securing permanent positions in the firm following the completion of their training contracts. The firm said: "We are delighted that all 15 of the trainees qualifying have been offered positions in the firm. We wish them every succ

Commercial law firm Philip Lee has retained six newly-qualified solicitors after they completed training with the firm. The new solicitors are Daniel Hanrahan, Ian Hanrahan, Thompson Barry Doherty, Deirdre Brannigan, Andrew Houlihan, Oisín O' Callaghan.

Corporate banking lawyer Davina Saint has been appointed to the board of NAMA. Ms Saint is a senior level banking executive and qualified solicitor, experienced in the structuring and execution of complex corporate finance transactions.

Tributes have been paid to Professor Nial Osborough, emeritus professor of jurisprudence and legal history at UCD Sutherland School of Law, following the news of his sudden death. Professor Osborough, widely published under the name W.N. Osborough, passed away on 29 December 2020 at the age of 81. A

Lawyers and courts staff have been invited to complete an anonymous survey aimed at gauging the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the personal injuries legal system. Barrister Chloë Cass is conducting the online survey to form the basis of a paper and talk for a personal injury claims conferen