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A senior judge has sought clarity from the HSE on whether the legal status of wards of court placed in the UK will change after Brexit. Mr Justice Peter Kelly, president of the High Court, said during a hearing yesterday that it would be "disastrous" if placement orders lapsed after 31 January, The

Patrick Fahy & Co Solicitors has welcomed Fiona Quinn as a solicitor following the completion of her apprenticeship training with the firm. Ms Quinn, from Derryloughan, Co Tyrone, will spend time equally between the firm's Omagh and Dungannon offices.

The UK government has launched a consultation on the introduction of same-sex religious marriage in Northern Ireland. The consultation follows the legalisation of same-sex civil marriage and opposite-sex civil partnerships in Northern Ireland last week.

The wreck of the RMS Titanic will be better protected under an historic international agreement between the UK and the US. On a visit to Belfast today, UK Maritime Minister Nusrat Ghani confirmed that the treaty signed by the UK in 2003 will into force following its ratification by US Secretary of S

Dr Eoin O'Dell, associate professor of law at Trinity College Dublin, examines a situation that has cropped up from the Circuit Civil Court in Dublin to the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg. Without my first cup of coffee, I don’t function in the mornings. So, it’s no

Belfast solicitor and recently-elected MP John Finucane has given evidence to an inquest about how he found his client John Brady hanging in his cell over a decade ago. An inquest into the death of the former IRA prisoner in a PSNI consultation room is taking place in Omagh, the Belfast Telegraph re

BBC Radio 4 has profiled Lord Reed, the new President of the UK Supreme Court. Professor MacQueen, who studied alongside Lord Reed, says the pair were "swots".

A new €1 million initiative has been launched to help social enterprises develop greater employment opportunities for people with a criminal past. The Probation Service and Pobal yesterday announced the launch of the "KickStart" start-up, development and/or job creation fund, which has been fin

Three women who won a landmark case against having to disclose past convictions for prostitution-related offences are returning to court today in a bid to overturn the criminalisation of soliciting. The women, who say they were groomed into prostitution as teenagers, succeeded last March in per

A judge cited hit TV sitcom Seinfeld as he allowed an appeal from a man convicted in absentia after missing a rescheduled court hearing. The man had attended court on time for the original scheduled hearing, which was subsequently cancelled, but then missed the rescheduled hearing by a couple of hou

An application for the surrender of a man sought by Romania under a European Arrest Warrant has been refused in the High Court. Calling for modification of the European Arrest Warrant Act 2003, Mr Justice Donald Binchy said the man was benefitting from the Romanian Court’s decision to grant hi

Global law firm Kennedys has announced the appointment of insurance litigator and casualty specialist David Strahan as a partner in Dublin. Mr Strahan, who called to the Bar before becoming a solicitor, joins from Arthur Cox to become the firm's fifth partner in Ireland.

Dublin-based Crowley Millar Solicitors has announced the appointment of Emma Cafferky as a partner in the firm’s corporate and commercial team. Ms Cafferky, based in the firm's headquarters in the IFSC, joined Crowley Millar in 2017 and has over 10 years of legal experience.

Cleaver Fulton Rankin has announced the appointment of three new directors across its private client, employment and immigration, and banking and finance teams. The firm promoted Timothy Rankin to director in the private client team and Aisling Byrne to director in the employment and immigration tea

Coroners may now apply to the High Court for directions on a point of law in a move designed to help "clarify and develop" Ireland's coronial law. Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan yesterday announced the commencement of all but one of the remaining provisions of the Coroners (Amendment) Act 2019, w