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Anyone attending court will have their name and contact details recorded for contact tracing purposes under new measures introduced to allow full physical court sittings to resume. Physical court sittings were limited on Wednesday to a maximum of two hours per day after an Oireachtas committee was t

Solicitors are being forced to break public health guidelines in order to advise clients in Garda custody, according to a damning new report. Whereas solicitors in Northern Ireland have been allowed since mid-April to advise clients during police interviews via video link, no such facility has been

Kerry County Council breached planning laws by failing to implement a language condition attached to a planning permission for a housing development in the West Kerry Gaeltacht, An Coimisinéir Teanga has said. The Office of the Language Commissioner carried out an investigation on a provision

The Public Relations Consultants Association (PRCA) has become an approved professional body with access to the The Bar of Ireland's direct access scheme. Approved organisations can access the services of any of 1,825 barristers without going through a solicitor through the Direct Professional Acces

Eversheds Sutherland has been awarded internationally-recognised certification for its exemplary data protection and information security. The global law firm now holds the ISO 27001 standard for information security management systems (ISMS) in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland for it

Belfast-based KRW LAW LLP has been shortlisted in a brand new category at the Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year (LALY) awards. The firm, headed by senior partner Kevin Winters, will compete with two other firms for the title of Regional Legal Aid Firm/Not-for-Profit.

The legal community has been encouraged to go for a run on Saturday to mark the original planned date for the Calcutta Run. The annual legal fundraiser was postponed to October after the coronavirus pandemic stopped it going ahead on 23 May 2020.

Members of the public can now use e-bikes on public roads without the need for registration or licensing following new legislation approved at Stormont. The Electrically Assisted Pedal Cycles (Construction and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 was first announced in February and passed by MLA

Family lawyer Keith Walsh has set out practical tips for solicitors attending remote hearings. The Dublin solicitor has been involved in a number of remote hearings, including some of the first divorce cases heard remotely in Dublin Circuit Court.

A man who allegedly broke into a prestigious museum, wandered the exhibits and took selfies with dinosaur bones has been arrested. Police say the unnamed interloper broke into the Australian Museum in Sydney just after 1am on Sunday 10 May, The Guardian reports.

Major Irish law firms including Matheson, William Fry and Eversheds Sutherland are continuing to make strategic hires and welcome newly-qualified solicitors, trainees and interns in spite of the COVID-19 crisis, Irish Legal News can reveal. Top-level hires completed in recent weeks have included con

Personal injury and road traffic accident specialist firm JMK Solicitors has welcomed six new solicitors across Belfast and Newry. Caroline Cahill, Amy Goss, Karen McKee, Ailis McKeown, Karen Reavey and Ryan McKeegan have joined the firm in the last six months.

The high-profile legal battle between campaigner Emma DeSouza and the Home Office has come to an end following changes to the Immigration Rules. Mrs DeSouza took legal action in 2015 after her husband Jake was denied a residence card sought as the spouse of an EEA national rather than the spouse of

Two complaints against the Law Society of Ireland have been upheld by Ombudsman Peter Tyndall. The Ombudsman received 35 complaints about the Law Society in 2019 but upheld just two of them, according to his office's latest annual report.

Nearly a third of solicitor applications and nearly half of barrister applications to the legal aid agency's COVID-19 interim payment scheme have been rejected. The Legal Services Agency (LSA), which launched the scheme two weeks ago, has revealed it had received 818 requests by Friday 15 May.