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The first draft of legislation detailing Ireland's contingency measures in the event of a no-deal Brexit will be revealed today, The Times reports. Measures covering areas including extradition, train services, hospital access, foster care and others will be addressed in a single piece of legislatio

Senior police in Ireland are drafting plans to deploy hundreds of gardai to the border should there be a no-deal Brexit on March 29, the Belfast Telegraph reports. The plans were discussed yesterday in Dublin, between Garda Commissioner Drew Harris and senior staff, it is understood.

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has warned that the slow passage of legislation that would reform the appointment of judges could destabilise the Government. Mr Flanagan was referring to how the bill has been handled in the Seanad, where some Senators have engaged in filibustering.

Independent Alliance members in the Dáil have been called on to support legislation banning the import of goods from the Israeli occupied territories. The Government's junior coalition partners were under pressure to support the law, which would make it an offence for a person to sell or

The Supreme Court will hear the case of an Iranian man who has lived in Ireland for almost 30 years but who has been denied citizenship on the basis of “secret evidence”, The Irish Times reports. The man, granted refugee status in 1991, has applied a number of times to become a naturalis

Italy failed to provide proper legal representation to Amanda Knox, the American woman acquitted in 2015 of killing her British housemate, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. It ordered the Italian authorities to pay €18,400 in damages and legal costs.

BLM has become the first law firm to officially sign up to the Inclusive Behaviours in Insurance Pledge, an initiative set up by Lloyd’s of London and Zurich to demonstrate the insurance industry’s commitment to creating a “culture where inclusive behaviours become the norm and whe

A&L Goodbody is offering first and second year law students the opportunity to spend a day at its office to experience what life is like at the firm. Its LawStart Days are designed to give students an insight into the firm and to help them decide if a career in corporate law is right for them.

Parents are hiring muscular men at a cost of between $450 and $1,790 a day – to protect their kids from bullies. The "uncles" come in different packages, the basic one provides a man in his 30s or 40s who will reportedly walk with the pupil to and from school while repelling bullies.

In divorce proceedings which began in 2002, the Supreme Court has ordered that the ex-husband should receive 25% of his pension fund and the ex-wife should receive 75%. The ex-husband had appealed the original apportionment in which his ex-wife had been awarded 80% of the fund, valued at around &eur

The Irish Government is failing to satisfy its "human rights obligations" by protecting its citizens from the effects of climate change, the High Court in Dublin was told. At the opening of a case against the State, the "devastating consequences" of climate change were explained to the court, The Ir

ByrneWallace has announced the continued expansion of the firm’s reputation management and crisis management teams with the appointment of new partner and corporate litigator Mark O’Shaughnessy.    Mr O’Shaughnessy specialises in advising Irish and international companies

The Court of Appeal has ruled that a company selling free-range eggs is entitled to a permanent injunction restraining a competitor from passing off their goods. The three-judge court today overturned a 2016 High Court ruling that Galway Free Range Eggs Ltd, which sells eggs under the "Galway Free R

The European Commission has fined Mastercard €570 million for limiting the possibility for merchants to benefit from better conditions offered by banks established elsewhere in the Single Market, in breach of EU antitrust rules. Mastercard is the second largest card scheme in the European