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New websites for the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) and the Labour Court have been launched. The redesigned WRC website was developed with the help of key stakeholders through focus groups, testing and surveys, informed by data about what parts of the old site visitors accessed most frequently

The head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service has written to Northern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley to ask her to progress legislation to provide redress for survivors of institutional childhood abuse. The Executive Office (TEO), in the absence of a functioning Northern Ireland Executive, drafted

High Court proceedings to determine if certain documents given by the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) to the Office of Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE) are legally privileged have been adjourned to late June. The materials which the FAI claims are privileged includes legal advice it re

Keystone Northern Ireland has advised the first business to receive backing from a £30 million growth fund set up by the British Business Bank, Invest NI and the Northern Ireland Local Government Officers' Superannuation Committee. A team led by director and senior corporate lawyer John McMaho

Lawyers from Ireland and Scotland will sing together at a charity fundraising concert in Dublin next weekend. The Sounds of Music concert has been co-organised by the A&L Goodbody Choir, the Bar Choir in Ireland and the Faculty of Advocates Choir from Scotland.

A copy of the novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover used by the presiding judge in the book's 1960 obscenity trial has been temporarily stopped from leaving the UK. Arts minister Michael Ellis put an export bar on the copy of the D.H. Lawrence novel taken to court by Sir Laurence Byrne.

A jury in California has awarded over $2 billion to a couple who claimed that a weed killer had caused their cancer. It is the third consecutive verdict against Bayer over its glyphosate-based Roundup product – and the largest yet.

There are at least 181,000 offenders linked to serious and organised crime (SOC) in the UK, the National Crime Agency has revealed. A £2.7 billion investment in law enforcement is needed to combat SOC over the next three years, NCA director general Lynne Owens said today as she released the Na

A cardinal climbed down a manhole to restore power for hundreds of people who had been left without electricity for a week. Cardinal Konrad Krajewski said the move was a "desperate gesture" as the 400 occupants of the building were left "without even the possibility of operating the refrigerators".

A man who was convicted of rape and indecent assault in 1996 has lost a challenge to the mechanism for reviewing notification requirements. Rejecting the application, Mrs Justice Siobhan Keegan was satisfied that the review mechanism was compatible with the European Convention of Human Rights, and t

Global law firm Clyde & Co has announced the launch of a Dublin office out of concern about the impact of Brexit on its Irish law insurance practice. Insurance and reinsurance partner Garrett Moore, who is qualified in Ireland and in England and Wales, has been appointed to lead the firm's first

McCann FitzGerald has announced the appointment of eight new partners and consultants across the firm, including its first-ever partners outside of Dublin and London. The firm has elevated Laura Treacy, Niall Best, Richard Gill, Doug McMahon and Rosaleen Byrne to partner, while Louise Delahunty, Cat

Solicitor Grainne Hennessy has been nominated for appointment to the board of Home Building Finance Ireland (HBFI). Ms Hennessy is a senior solicitor at Arthur Cox with over 27 years' experience in advising lenders and borrowers on the funding of real estate investments, including some of the larges

A firm has been fined €280,000 in the first enforcement action taken against a stockbroker for breaches of the Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Act 2010. Stockbroker Campbell O'Connor & Company has admitted five breaches between July 2010 and November 2016 relatin

The Law Reform Commission may not issue a report on whether pre-nuptial agreements should be given legal recognition in Ireland until 2021, according to reports. Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has refused to commit to the introduction of a legal framework for pre-nuptial agreements until the law