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The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has referred a Northern Ireland man's drink driving conviction to the County Court. William Smith, represented by Harte Coyle Solicitors, was convicted in his absence at Belfast Magistrates Court in June 2011 in relation to a drink driving offence committe

Draft regulations to allow the Northern Ireland Secretary to appoint an Attorney General for Northern Ireland have been laid before Parliament. The Northern Ireland (Ministerial Appointment Functions) Regulations 2019 will pave the way for Northern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley to appoint an Attor

Students from the Institute of Professional Legal Studies (IPLS) at Queen's University Belfast will practice their advocacy skills in front of a justice at the UK Supreme Court this year. Students will undertake a moot before Lord Kerr on 5 March in a bout designed to give them the chance to pr

The General Court has annulled European Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) decision refusing registration of the figurative mark ‘Chiara Ferragni’ as an EU trade mark In 2015, Italian entrepreneurs filed an application with EUIPO for registration of the following EU trade mar

A charity is calling on the UK government to make it easier for Muslim women to divorce their husbands, The Times reports. The Muslim Women’s Network (MWN) said sharia councils could be made redundant with a simple amendment to an existing law that lets Jewish women demand instant divorce.

A lawyer responsible for insider trading compliance at technology giant Apple has been charged with insider trading offences. Gene Levoff, 45, former global head of corporate law at Apple, is facing both criminal charges and a civil lawsuit in connection with alleged offences between 2011 and 2016.

A local police force urged residents to get "a barking, biting dog" for protection after announcing it did not have enough money to enforce the law. In a Facebook post, Sheriff John Kirk of Martin County in the US state of Kentucky warned: "Law enforcement as we have known for the last four years wi

The lawfulness of a man’s detention was referred to the High Court by way of case stated, after a complaint was made regarding the two-hour delay in a doctor arriving at the Garda station for the purposes of taking a sample of urine. Finding that the doctor attending an emergency was a reasona

Specialist employment law practice CC Solicitors has announced the appointment of Regan O'Driscoll as partner in the firm. The move comes four years after Ms O'Driscoll joined the Dublin-based firm, having previously trained and qualified in a large commercial law firm and then spent two years in th

Ronan Daly Jermyn (RDJ) has announced the appointment of Dean Cunningham as a solicitor in the firm's corporate and commercial practice. Mr Cunningham has over 10 years' experience in the legal and technology sectors, with particular expertise in complex software licensing matters, having worked as

Solicitor Moya Quinlan, the first woman to be elected president of the Law Society of Ireland, has passed away at the age of 99. Ms Quinlan, who qualified as a solicitor in 1946 and served as president in 1980/81, died at a Dublin nursing home yesterday, The Irish Times reports.

The Department of Justice has today launched a public consultation on how funds under the control of courts should be managed in the future. The funds are currently managed by the Court Funds Office (CFO) on behalf of individuals who need support to manage their financial assets.

A senior High Court judge has warned that there are "not enough judges" to hear cases brought by women affected by mistakes in cervical cancer screening. Mr Justice Kevin Cross made the remarks during proceedings brought by Ruth Morrissey against the HSE and two US-based laboratories involved in cer

The Victim Support at Court (V-SAC) charity has seen a 37 per cent increase in demand for its court accompaniment services in the last two years, the Irish Examiner reports. The latest figures from the charity reveal that it provided accompaniment services to 1,365 complainants, witnesses and family

The Government needs to clarify details around a proposed renewable energy scheme to avoid an investment hiatus in the Irish renewable energy industry, a prominent energy lawyer has warned.