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Mason Hayes & Curran has announced the appointment of Oliver FitzGerald as a partner in the firm's real estate team. Mr FitzGerald works with clients on the full range of real estate transactions, including the real estate aspects of banking and corporate deals. He advises international investor

Cork firm CDS Law & Tax has announced the appointment of Ross Jackson as solicitor and Cliodhna Murphy as trainee solicitor. Mr Jackson, who qualified as a solicitor in 2010, joins the corporate and commercial department at CDS, where his areas of expertise include corporate restructuring, corpo

Prison officers carried out covert surveillance which may have broken the law, but did not deliberately monitor private conversations between solicitors and prisoners, a report has found. The Inspector of Prisons, Patricia Gilheaney, was asked by Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan last November to ex

The Court of Appeal has reserved judgment in an appeal based on the "unusual" argument that a dependency on alcohol can diminish a person's responsibility for murder such that juries should be allowed to find them guilty of manslaughter. The “unusual” argument was made in the case of Mic

Proposals to establish Ireland's first medically supervised injection facility (MSIF) for drug users have been rejected by Dublin City Council. The council said the proposed facility would be bad for tourism and the local area, TheJournal.ie reports.

The new Northern Ireland Secretary, Julian Smith, has been urged to introduce legislation to compensate victims of historical institutional abuse. The UK Government recently said legislation to implement the recommendations of Sir Anthony Hart's 2017 report would not be introduced until after the su

A major legal summit in Dublin next week will try to "bridge the gap" between lawyers and technology experts on complex issues including AI and cyber security. Law lecturer Dr David Cowan and barrister Brendan Guildea are organising the Dublin-based part of the World Legal Summit 2019, which will se

Employment law solicitor Richard Grogan of Richard Grogan & Associates writes on a case concerning maternity leave. The case EDA1919, being G4S Secure Solutions (Ireland) Limited and Kelly, is a decision of the Labour Court of 12th June 2019.

Via @UKSupremeCourt: "The Supreme Court’s historic first sitting in Wales is now complete. It has been a wonderful week, particularly as so many people were able to come and observe the court in action. We’re off back to London now but thank you for all the hospitality Cardiff. Until ne

Dublin firm Reddy Charlton has raised over €4,000 for international charity Sightsavers, enough to fund 129 sight-saving operations.

Belfast solicitor Peter McGettrick has appealed to colleagues to help him raise money for a pilot mediation service in Uganda. Mr McGettrick and his partner, Nicki Clarke, have launched a JustGiving page aiming to raise £2,500 to support the work of the Justice and Peace Commission.

Complaints of sexual harassment by solicitors in England and Wales rose sharply in 2017/18 off the back of the #MeToo movement, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has said. The regulator's Upholding Professional Standards 2017/18 report reveals that it received 70 complaints about sexual hara

On 25 October 1920, Terence MacSwiney died in London’s Brixton Prison after 74 days on hunger strike. MacSwiney was a republican poet and a playwright who was elected as MP for Mid-Cork in the 1918 general election, and one of the many TDs marked as ‘fé ghlas ag Gallaibh’ (i

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. UK: Priti Patel's record on human rights prompts 'extreme concern' | The Guardian

A defendant had his mouth taped shut on a judge's orders after repeatedly interrupting his sentencing hearing. The tape was only removed after the man's lawyer suggested he could simply be removed from the courtroom instead.