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An in-house lawyer who sued his former employer for disability discrimination and victimisation cannot rely on a leaked email or a conversation he overheard in a pub ...

The Northern Ireland Prison Service (NIPS) has launched a consultation on moving to smoke-free prisons. The consultation, which runs until the end of November, follows the successful ...

Dublin law firms are leaders in Europe and the Middle East in terms of agile working, with half of firms in the Irish capital offering some form ...

Legal services firm Johnson Hana International, founded by former barrister Dan Fox, has appointed IBI Corporate Finance to lead a €5 million fundraising round. The firm, which ...

A woman has been charged with falsely reporting her own murder after she posed as her husband and told his alleged mistress that he had shot her. ...

A vulture fund must pay the costs of a debtor who was successful in overturning an order for possession in respect of his home in Clontarf. The ...

A&L Goodbody (ALG) has announced the appointment of Patrick Brandt and Andrew Sheridan as partners in its Dublin office. Mr Brandt has joined the firm's financial regulation ...

Flynn O'Driscoll (FOD) has announced the appointment of Louise Harrison as a partner in the firm's employment team. Ms Harrison joins from William Fry, where she trained ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...