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Employees have no automatic right to legal representation at internal workplace disciplinary proceedings, the Supreme Court has ruled. Speaking to Irish Legal News, Barry Walsh, partner and head of employment and benefits at Fieldfisher, said the "strong" decision in McKelvey v Irish Rail "will

Government proposals to rewrite planning laws to reduce the number of judicial review challenges to controversial developments would deny communities access to justice, lawyers have warned. The draft heads of a new planning bill were recently sent by Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy's office to the Oi

Security concerns have been raised at a €35 million courthouse opened in Cork just last year after a woman admitted bringing a claw hammer into the building to intimidate someone. Julianne O'Farrell, 27, pleaded guilty to possessing a claw hammer in a public place with intent to cause injury, i

New laws aimed at removing alcohol advertising from the "day-to-day lives" of children have come into effect. Under the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018, commenced yesterday, alcohol advertising in or on public service vehicles, at public transport stops or stations and within 200 metres of a school

Maples partner Lynn Cramer has been recognised as an Irish rising star at Euromoney Legal Media Group’s inaugural Europe Rising Star Awards. Ms Cramer joined the firm's Dublin office in 2011 and was promoted to partner in the firm's tax team earlier this year.

Inmates at Mountjoy Prison are helping to raise money for a homelessness charity through an album of Christmas songs. The "Jingle Jangle" album, to be launched at a fundraising concert in the prison tomorrow, is a collaboration between the SOLAS Workplace Choir and the Mountjoy Prison Inhouse Voices

Company formation and compliance specialists Company Bureau has raised €7,000 for suicide and self-harm prevention charity Pieta House.

A mother-of-five faces up to three months in jail after failing to return library books for two years. Melinda Sanders-Jones checked out two books in 2017 but forgot about them until she visited the same library to use the printer.

A man facing extradition to Poland under a European Arrest Warrant has had arguments based on Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights rejected in the High Court. Referring to a recent report regarding prison conditions, Mr Justice Donald Binchy said that 3m² of floor space per pris

Ireland has been ordered to pay a lump sum of €5 million to the European Commission and a further penalty of €15,000 per day until it complies with a European court ruling concerning a wind farm which was handed down over a decade ago. The Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the Europ

A judge will be appointed to oversee the redress scheme for victims and survivors of historical institutional abuse in Northern Ireland by the end of the week. David Sterling, head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service, met with victims and survivors yesterday to outline plans to set up the long-awa

The Supreme Court will next month hear an appeal from the State against a High Court ruling that sections of the Communications (Retention of Data) Act 2011 are inconsistent with EU law, according to reports. At a case management hearing on Monday, the Chief Justice, Mr Justice Frank Clarke, suggest

Employment legislation should be updated to prevent discrimination against people on the basis of past convictions, an Oireachtas committee has said. The justice committee recently produced a report on Ireland's spent convictions regime after hearing evidence from prisons and rehabilitation experts

LK Shields consultant Tom Simpson and trainee solicitor Katie Linden consider a recent Supreme Court judgment confirming that non-party funders can be held personally liable for costs. The Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that the principal shareholder and owner of a construction company is to be

A judge dismantled a legal argument about costs in a deportation case with remarkable eloquence and humour in a recently-published ruling. Mr Justice Richard Humphreys was asked to rule on costs in a case which was struck out with consent after the Minister for Justice withdrew the deportation order