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A lawyer who left a hurried note on another lawyer's car after "dinging" it was entering into a binding contract to pay them, a tribunal has ruled. Carly Peddle wrote and left a note which read "I dinged your back passenger door / happy to pay for!" after accidentally denting Richard Brooks' car doo

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for the Taliban's supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, and chief justice, Abdul Hakim Haqqani. Judges yesterday said there were reasonable grounds to suspect both men have committed the crime against humanity of persecution on gend

Sean Gillane SC is to be appointed to the High Court and seven lawyers to the District Court in the first judicial appointments since the introduction of the new Judicial Appointments Commission.

Around one in four women in Irish prisons are Travellers and urgent action is needed to rectify the "completely untenable situation", prison reform campaigners have said. The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) highlighted the "persistent over-representation" of T

Belfast firm Phoenix Law and a legal adviser with the Children's Law Centre in Northern Ireland were among winners at the 2025 Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year (LALY) awards in London. The Legal Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG) in England and Wales organises the annual awards ceremony, now in its 23rd yea

Specialist boutique employment law firm McInnes Dunne Murphy LLP has welcomed Feidhlim Mac Róibín as an associate. Mr Mac Róibín joins the firm from another boutique employment specialist firm, having previously trained and qualified in a top five firm.

Gemma McLoughlin-Burke BL and Seán Beatty BL have emerged as winners of the 2025 Adrian Hardiman Moot Competition.

Ferrari has lost a David and Goliath trademark battle with a small energy drinks company which it accused of infringing on its iconic prancing horse logo. The Italian luxury sports car maker took action in Malaysia against local drinks company Sunrise-Mark Sdn Bhd, which uses two prancing horses in

The Council of Europe's commissioner for human rights, Michael O'Flaherty, has urged the UK to ensure that the rights of trans people are being upheld as he expressed concern about the "current climate". In a statement following a recent visit to the UK, Mr O'Flaherty said trans people "constitute a

Ireland should vote again on replacing parts of the Constitution which include "gender stereotypes about women's roles in the home", a UN committee has recommended. The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) today published the concluding observations of its eighth p

Former president Mary Robinson has been awarded an honorary doctorate of laws by the University of Strathclyde in Scotland.

The Irish motor industry has been issued with a warning following reports of anticompetitive practices in the sale, maintenance and repair of motor vehicles. The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) today published an eight-page letter which has been sent to a number of businesses i

An expansion of judicial numbers has reduced the number of court hearings cancelled due to a shortage of judicial resources, but the Courts Service is now facing a shortage of staff, according to a new report. The Courts Service this morning published its annual report for 2024, which sets out

The workload of State pathologists has more than doubled in the past ten years, according to a new report. The Office of the State Pathologist (OSP) said in its 2024 annual report that last year saw the highest number of State cases (i.e. criminal, suspicious or unusual deaths) in 10 years.

Four law students have completed the Bar of Ireland's inaugural internship programme. Greta Baronaite from ATU Letterkenny, Alvena Sharma from Trinity College Dublin, Lee Mac Cuinneagain from the University of Limerick and Michael White from University College Dublin took part in the two-week initia