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Staff at Comyn Kelleher Tobin (CKT) took part in the Run in the Dark in Cork to raise funds for the Mark Pollock Trust.

Cryptoassets should be treated in principle as property under English law, lawyers have recommended. Legal statement on cryptoassets and smart contracts details how English law would accommodate these new commercial phenomena.

A sharp rise in the price of tomatoes has led to farmers in Pakistan hiring round-the-clock guards to watch over their crop. The price of tomatoes sky-rocketed to 350 rupees (£1.75) per kilogram, more than five times the previous price, after Pakistan banned tomato imports from Iran, India and

A former “protection prisoner” who was held in a cell with other prisoners without sanitation or running water for up to 23 hours a day has been awarded €7,500 in the Supreme Court. Emphasising that the case was fact-specific and that the award should not be seen as establishing a &

The removal of juries, limitation of damages and more certainty in defamation cases have been raised as proposals to reform the Defamation Act 2009.

The Court of Appeal has overturned a landmark High Court ruling which adopted an "unduly rigid" interpretation of the residency criteria for Irish citizenship applicants. In an unexpected decision in July, Mr Justice Max Barrett ruled that the requirement for “one year’s continuous resid

Mr Justice Adrian Colton will be appointed as president of the new Historical Institutional Abuse Redress Board, the Lord Chief Justice has announced. The redress board, established by legislation fast-tracked through Westminster before it dissolved, will be responsible for receiving and processing

Global law firm Dechert LLP is expanding into new, larger office premises in Dublin as the firm continues its growth trajectory in the Irish capital in response to increased client demand. As of Monday, the firm's Dublin office will be based in 8,600 sq. ft. space at 5 Earlsfort Terrace, a landmark

A staggering €300,000 raised by the legal profession at this year's Calcutta Run has been presented to the Peter McVerry Trust and The Hope Foundation.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has opened an investigation into the alleged ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. Myanmar's generals and Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel peace prize winner, could face prosecution in the court for crimes against humanity as well a

Staff at William Fry raised nearly €900 for Cystic Fibrosis Ireland during the firm's sixth annual funds bake-off.

The number of offenders passing through the criminal justice system has fallen to its lowest level in 50 years, according to official figures. Between July 2018 and June 2019 there were 1.58 million people processed by the system, compared with 1.86m in 1970, data from the Ministry of Justice show.

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Prison authorities have captured an inmate's cat which was being used to smuggle drugs into the jail. In CCTV footage released online, guards at a penal colony in the Russian republic of Tatarstan chase after a cat as it races towards the prison building.

Solidarity-People Before Profit TDs have been granted leave to apply for judicial review of a decision of the Ceann Comhairle, which will be dealt with in an expedited hearing before the end of the year. Noting the need to approach cases involving Parliament with a degree of caution, Mr Justice Garr