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Commercial law firm Philip Lee has appointed Eimear Fitzgibbon as partner in the real estate and planning department. Ms Fitzgibbon, who joined the firm in 2006, specialises in commercial property law, acting for development companies, institutional clients, funders and investors.

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Irish lawyers with Deaf clients have been encouraged to assist with research into how minority language users access their right to a fair trial. Gearóidín McEvoy, PhD candidate in minority language rights law at DCU School of Law and Government, is looking to speak to Deaf Irish Sign

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The High Court has dismissed the European Medicines Agency's claim that Brexit would frustrate the 25-year lease it holds in respect of its London headquarters. Frustration is a doctrine of English law that allows for contracts to be set aside because an unforeseen event renders their obligations fu

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The police are to be given new powers to stop and search anyone suspected of carrying a corrosive substance in public. The move will enable officers to enforce a new offence of carrying corrosives in a public place, part of the Offensive Weapons Bill currently being considered by Parliament.

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The cat of late fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld is set to "inherit" some of his $170 million fortune, according to reports. Lagerfeld, the creative director of French fashion house Chanel and Italian fashion house Fendi, died on Tuesday.

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The Cabinet has approved the drafting of new legislation to break a deadlock on prisoner transfer applications caused by a Supreme Court ruling in 2016. Transfer applications to Ireland from prisoners abroad have been on hold since the Supreme Court upheld the High Court’s 2014 ruling against

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