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Whilst many businesses across Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom are at a standstill due to the ongoing COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic, one law firm, Kearney Law, is battling against the odds, remaining open and continuing to work on their many case files, in addition to cel

Hundreds of barristers have volunteered to carry out coronavirus contact tracing for the HSE in order to relieve pressure on health staff. A total of 385 barristers, about a sixth of all practising barristers, had signed up by Friday night, the Irish Independent reports.

Cork solicitor Michael Enright, a former president of the Southern Law Association, has passed away. He died peacefully at the Bon Secours Hospital on Wednesday and his funeral took place in private.

Patrick Dunne urges reason in discussions about the lockdowns aimed at slowing the spread of coronavirus. In the midst of a lockdown in this country, and lockdowns in many other western democracies, reference has been made to the imposition of martial law. This, it is claimed, would result in member

The UK government has been advised by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) that it can use anonymised mobile phone data in order to track people who have COVID-19. Deputy commissioner Steve Wood said in a statement: “Generalised location data trend analysis is helping to tackle the coro

Former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond's lawyer, Gordon Jackson QC, has referred himself to the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) following the publication of footage in which he made comments about Salmond's trial. Mr Salmond was vindicated last week of various sexual offence charges

The UK's wrongful trading law will be suspended to allow businesses to "weather the storm" of the coronavirus pandemic, Alok Sharma, the UK business secretary, has announced. The change, backdated to apply from 1 March 2020, will allow directors of companies to pay staff and suppliers even if the co

The Netherlands has been ordered to pay compensation to the families of 11 men who were shot dead by Dutch soldiers in Indonesia in the 1940s. Human rights lawyer Liesbeth Zegveld took the Dutch state to court in The Hague on behalf of eight widows and three children, The Guardian reports.

Sarah Ward, a senior associate at English law firm Samuel Phillips, has published some 'ground rules' for her daughters during lockdown.

A priest has been reassigned to a remote monastery after Russian security officials discovered a drug lab at his house. FSB officials raided the St Petersburg flat, registered in the name of 44-year-old priest Maxim Mitrofanov, as part of a corruption investigation.

The Court of Appeal has allowed the appeal of a Pakistani national who was prevented from joining the Defence Forces in Ireland. Background

Solicitor Gwendolen Morgan has been appointed as registrar to the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC). Ms Morgan is an England and Irish-qualified solicitor with over 15 years' experience in public law, human rights and employment equality law.

Draft legislation to ban evictions during the coronavirus pandemic has been amended to widen its provisions to include "rent-a-room" arrangements and Traveller sites. The amendment, proposed by People Before Profit TD Bríd Smith and narrowly backed by 25 votes to 24, extends the evictions ban

Ireland has been "ahead of the curve" on reducing prisoner numbers during the coronavirus pandemic but must go further, penal reform campaigners have warned. Speaking to Irish Legal News, Fíona Ní Chinnéide, executive director of the Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT), welcomed the

British citizenship laws should be rewritten to allow people born in Northern Ireland to choose whether to be treated as a British citizen or as an Irish citizen, a new report has recommended. London barrister Alison Harvey of No5 Chambers produced the legal analysis for the Irish Human Rights and E