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A round-up of deals involving Irish law firms. Submit your deals to newsdesk@irishlegal.com. Walkers Ireland has acted for Global Student Accommodation (GSA) on the €400 million buy-out by GSA-affiliated entities of its joint-venture partner Harrison Street's interest in an Irish vehicle.

A couple who regretted taking free advice from an architect friend are facing a £1 million legal bill after a failed lawsuit against her. Peter and Lynn Burgess say the transformation of the garden at their £5 million London home would have been completed quicker and more cheaply without

The Courts Service has lost an appeal against the Data Protection Commissioner’s finding that it breached pre-GDPR legislation by publishing the name of a notice party who had been granted anonymity. Dismissing the appeal, Judge Francis Comerford said the Courts Service was obviously a data co

William Fry has announced the promotion of Stephen Keogh as its new head of corporate and M&A, alongside the appointment of Ailbhe Dennehy and Ian Murray as partners. Mr Keogh joined William Fry over 20 years ago and returned to Ireland from the firm's London office in 2017, having served as hea

Over two dozen Northern Ireland barristers have been named as Queen's Counsel in the first round of appointments in over five years.

Ronan Daly Jermyn has welcomed six newly-qualified solicitors across its real estate, employment, litigation, banking and tax teams. The firm's new solicitors are Evan Collins, Georgina Wallace, Alan Devaney, Kathryn Waldron-Hyden, David Rodgers and Sharon Burke.

Dublin-based Leman Solicitors has announced the appointment of Sheila Spokes as a solicitor in the firm's employment team. Ms Spokes graduated from NUI Galway and trained with Eversheds Sutherland prior to her appointment at Leman.

The independent TD who was widely seen as driving the outgoing government's commitment to reforming the judicial appointments system has lost his seat in Saturday's election. Shane Ross, a TD since 2011, first for Dublin South and latterly for Dublin Rathdown, served as transport minister under Taoi

Financial services company FinTrU has announced the appointment of Roli Shaw as general counsel and head of legal. Mr Shaw, previously head of the legal department at Citi's Belfast office, has over 17 years' experience in legal and financial services.

Protecting the basic human right of liberty "must be a priority" in the roll-out of new capacity law reforms, a conference hosted by the Law Society of Northern Ireland has heard. The Elder Law and Capacity Conference in Belfast brought together representatives from the legal, health and voluntary/c

The most senior family judge in England and Wales has appealed to law firms to make donations to a legal charity to help tackle delays in the family courts. Sir Andrew McFarlane, president of the family division, said that "modest annual contributions" to Support Through Court, a charity providing f

Financial regulators in Ireland and the US want institutions to speak up about culture change, a conference hosted by Eversheds Sutherland has heard. The law firm sponsored the well-attended "Regulating Banking Culture" conference at UCD Sutherland School of Law, which comprised a series of roundtab

Hundreds of Crown Court judges in England and Wales face disqualification because they have not spent enough time hearing trials. Recorders must sit for at least 15 or 30 days per year, depending on experience, to keep their role.

A Scottish lawyer who says she suffered “psychiatric injury” while working at the Crown Office is to have her £1.3 million damages claim against the Lord Advocate heard at the Court of Session in Edinburgh. Laura Malone, 53, argues that the Lord Advocate, James Wolffe QC, is vicari

Police officers in New York City will swap their notebooks for an iPhone app in a move upending a century of tradition. The iconic "memo book" in which officers have taken handwritten notes since the 1800s will be scrapped next Monday, The New York Times reports.