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Former Taoiseach John Bruton has been named chair of the group tasked with implementing the legal profession's bid to make Ireland a post-Brexit centre for international legal services. The Brexit Legal Services Implementation Group was launched on Friday and aims to support the effective realisatio

A public consultation on sentencing policy has been launched by the Department of Justice following a major review. The public consultation paper has been developed through extensive research of approaches to sentencing, and highlights issues raised during engagement with partner organisations and o

Barrister Tríona Jacob has been named by the Children's Rights Alliance (CRA) as its Catherine McGuinness Fellow for 2019/2020. The one-year Fellowship programme was established by the CRA in 2015 in partnership with The Bar of Ireland and with the support of the Family Lawyers' Association o

Individual lawyers working for the Government will no longer be named publicly due to data protection concerns raised by the Attorney General. Derek Moran, secretary-general of the Department of Finance, told the Dáil public accounts committee in a letter that lawyers working for the Governme

Mr Justice Michael Peart, the first solicitor appointed to the High Court, has retired from the Court of Appeal. The president of the Court of Appeal, Mr Justice George Birmingham, led tributes to the retiring judge on Friday.

Legislation to establish a redress scheme for victims and survivors of historical institutional abuse in Northern Ireland will be debated in the House of Lords today. The second reading of the Historical Institutional Abuse (Northern Ireland) Bill will take place this afternoon.

Legal aid for vulnerable migrant children who have been separated from their parents has been reinstated in England and Wales. Non-asylum immigration matters were removed from the legal aid scheme under major reforms in 2013, but ministers have now reinstated the scheme for under-18s who are not in

Police are investigating a crowdfunding page aiming to raise £10,000 to hire someone to kill high-profile Brexit litigant Gina Miller. The crowdfunder was anonymously launched on GoFundMe in April and was not taken down until last week, the Sunday Mirror reports.

Mason Hayes & Curran has announced the appointment of Michaela Herron as a regulatory partner. Ms Herron, who joins from a London-based firm, works with businesses across all sectors who manufacture, sell and supply products in the EU, in areas such as pharmaceutical, medical devices, software m

State-run rehabilitation camps for young smartphone addicts have been established in South Korea. The 12-day programme sees teenagers who struggle to stay off their devices hand in their phone and undergo coaching to bring their use down to a healthy level of two to three hours a day, The Times repo

A man who was given a five-year custodial sentence for assault causing serious harm has had his sentence reduced on appeal to just over two years in custody. Mr Justice George Birmingham, president of the Court of Appeal, said it was appropriate to take into consideration the Fitzgibbon sentencing g

The Law Society of Ireland has celebrated the "historic milestone" of having more than 20,000 solicitors on the roll after the Brexit boost from England and Wales. Around 1,700 solicitors from England and Wales were admitted to the roll this year alone, according to the Law Society's annual report f

Far too many people are representing themselves in family law proceedings, legal rights group FLAC has warned. The Oireachtas justice committee yesterday published its report on the family law system, which chairman Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin said made “abundantly clear that the

The 187-year-old Roscommon Courthouse is set to close for up to two months to allow for remedial works to be carried out. A full refurbishment of the courthouse is planned in the medium-term under the Government's National Development Plan 2018-2027, but the short-term repairs are expected to keep t

A project to install child distraction spaces in Irish courts has secured support through a new innovation fund. Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe yesterday confirmed that the Courts Service would receive €10,000 from the new Public Service Innovation Fund set up under the Our Public Service 202