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Ms Justice Mary Baker has been nominated for elevation to the Supreme Court in a trio of nominations agreed by the Cabinet yesterday. She has served on the Court of Appeal bench since June 2018, having previously served as a judge of the High Court from 2014.

DLA Piper is moving its Dublin base to a 10,000 square-foot office on St Stephen's Green to accommodate a growing headcount, the global law firm has announced. The firm plans to reach a headcount of 50 by January 2020 and a practice of 100 lawyers and business professionals within a few years.

Judicial discretion in sentencing does not effectively deal with hate crime because the hate motivation "is prone to becoming invisible at various stages of the criminal justice process", Ireland's human rights watchdog has warned. The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has produced a compre

Law lecturer Dr Mary Tumelty has been appointed to the Health and Social Care Professionals Council within multi-profession health regulator CORU. Dr Tumelty has lectured at UCC School of Law since 2018 and her research interests include medical law and ethics, patient safety and alternative dispute

A newly-refurbished learning and skills centre at Hydebank Wood College has been officially opened. Representatives of the NI Prison Service and its education partner, Belfast Metropolitan College, were joined by local actor Dan Gordon at the opening of the refurbished library.

Patrice O’Keeffe, partner in healthcare and medical law at Comyn Kelleher Tobin, examines the Supreme Court's decision in AC v HSE. A recent Supreme Court decision has provided helpful clarification and guidance to healthcare providers when managing patients who do not have capacity in circums

Over 800 people from corporate Ireland attended A&L Goodbody's first corporate crime and regulation summit in Dublin yesterday.

An exhibition celebrating the centenary of the admission of women to the legal profession is the subject of the latest Law Pod UK podcast. Episode 99 sees Rosalind Wright CB QC discuss the first 100 years of women in law with Rosalind English.

A court in Egypt has ruled a woman should take an equal share in an inheritance with her brothers in a landmark case, The Times reports. Lawyer Huda Nasrallah, 40, brought the case to the court in Helwan, south of Cairo, with her brothers' support.

A former boxing champion has been spared jail for taking part in an illegal bare-knuckle fight - and told by the judge to join a boxing club. Anthony Kelly, 40, knocked out Alan Clohessy, 29, in an organised fight which was filmed and uploaded to YouTube and Facebook.

The Commissioner of An Garda Síochána has lost an appeal against an order quashing the decision to request the resignation of a Garda accused of sexual assault. Finding that the Commissioner was deficient in responding to the assertion that the Garda had pleaded guilty only on the basis of recei

Sherwin O'Riordan Solicitors has announced the appointment of Deirdre Ardagh as a senior associate and Austin Gill as a solicitor. A former barrister, Ms Ardagh joins the firm's corporate and commercial department having previously worked as both an economist and a public policy professional in a nu

Dublin-based corporate law firm BHSM has announced the appointment of David Scott as a senior associate in the firm's healthcare and life sciences team. Mr Scott specialises in advising clients in the digital health, medical device, healthcare, software and pharmaceutical sectors with respect to reg

A root and branch review of the provision of civil legal aid is urgently needed, the Oireachtas justice committee has heard . Eilis Barry, CEO of FLAC, joined a range of legal experts and representatives of the legal profession this morning at a committee meeting on the issue of "Access to Justice a

High Court judges are making errors in law due to a lack of experience with certain types of banking cases, the Master of the High Court, Edmund Honohan SC, has claimed. Mr Honohan yesterday decided there should be a full hearing of a bank's claim for final judgment of €945,613 against a woman,