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The Courts Service of Ireland has exchanged key documents to take forward the acquisition of a 5,000㎡ site for a new courthouse in Portlaoise. A recent meeting of Laois County Council was told that "contract documents relating to the sale/purchase of a site adjacent to the new Southern Circular Ro

Ciaran O'Shiel, associate in IP, media and data disputes at A&L Goodbody in Belfast, considers the consequences of a recent judgment of the UK Supreme Court. “He tried to strangle me. What would those words convey to the ordinary reasonable reader of a Facebook post?” is how Lord Ker

The president of the Law Society of Northern Ireland hosted a lunch with the secretariat of the Consular Corps/Association of Northern Ireland (CA-NI) yesterday.

A proliferation of new laws and judicial power has diminished people's ability to make their own decisions, according to a former Supreme Court justice, The Times reports. Jonathan Sumption QC, Lord Sumption, 70, retired from the bench in December last year. He said that the case of Charlie Gard ind

O'Flynn Exhams (OFX) is sponsoring the Cope Foundation's annual Golf Classic fundraiser for a 23rd year in a row.

Over 500 people attended the Saffron Business Forum's annual fundraiser in Belfast, sponsored by Tughans. The lunch event in the Crowne Plaza Belfast welcomed guests to an afternoon packed with spectacular entertainment, great food and drink, inspirational speeches to raise awareness for the promoti

Pop singer Ariana Grande is being sued by a photographer for posting a picture of herself on Instagram without permission. Robert Barbera is seeking up to $50,000 (around €44,860) in damages, claiming that Ms Grand did not ask for permission or pay to use two photos he took.

The Court of Appeal in Belfast has found that a five-month sentence imposed on a man convicted of sexually assaulting his two-year-old son was unduly lenient. The man served just two-and-a-half months of his sentence, and was not subject to a sexual offences prevention order (SOPO).

Retired judge Nicholas Kearns, who chaired the Personal Injuries Commission, has questioned whether the Law Society of Ireland could do more to stop solicitors representing fraudulent personal injury claimants. Mr Kearns, a former president of the High Court, told an international fraud prevention c

Proposals backed by a senior European politician to ban anonymity on social media could have an adverse impact on people living under repressive regimes, media lawyers in Ireland have warned. German politician Manfred Weber, the frontrunner for next president of the European Commission, told a TV de

Lisa McLaughlin, head of the Belfast office of global law firm Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF), has been named International Director of Year by the Institute of Directors (IoD) in Northern Ireland. Ms McLaughlin, the director of the firm's Alternative Legal Services (ALT) business in the UK, Europe,

Co Kildare firm Moloney & Co Solicitors has announced a formal partnership with Greek law firm Pavlakis-Moschos & Associates to provide support to Irish people injured in Greece. Pavlakis-Moschos is an international travel law firm operating for 40 years in the centre of the commercial and l

Prominent solicitor Gerald Kean has been awarded €160,000 in damages and costs by the High Court after a jury found that he was defamed in a newspaper article. Mr Kean sued news publisher Independent Star Ltd over an Irish Daily Star article published on 11 March 2016 concerning a visit by Crim

A man found in a solicitors' office claiming he was homeless and looking for somewhere to sleep will not be retried for burglary after his conviction was quashed. Robert Kane, 41, had denied burglary and criminal damage at the office of Patrick Morrissey and Co Solicitors, on Crofton Road, Dun Laogh

Solicitors from Northern Ireland triumphed over their southern colleagues in the inaugural IronLaw North South Triathlon Challenge at the weekend.