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A local authority is under pressure to reveal the full cost of a court battle it fought against a cheesemaker. South Lanarkshire Council's legal department has admitted it spent almost £600,000 in the case against Errington Cheese and it is thought the final bill will exceed £1 million a

The Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation must reconsider an application to renew an employment permit which was refused because it had been submitted eight days after the previous year’s permit had lapsed. Granting an order of certiorari, quashing the decision, Mr Justice Seam

Global law firm Walkers has announced the appointment of Jennifer Fox as a partner in its investment funds team in Dublin.

Cork firm O'Flynn Exhams Solicitors (OFX) has announced the completion of a major renovation project driven by the firm's double-digit revenue growth over the past three years. Tánaiste Simon Coveney officially opened the new South Mall office, designed by KOBW Architects and built by Flynn M

Dublin lawyer David Nolan has been appointed head of a Dublin-based compliance team at Principal Financial Group. Principal is a global financial investment management and insurance company with an operating income of over $1.1 billion per year.

ByrneWallace has an equal number of women and men partners for the first time, The Times reports. The firm said it had reached the gender milestone in its partnership over the summer.

The appointment of Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) will further undermine the court's international reputation, according to Irish legal experts. Senator Ivana Bacik, a qualified barrister and legal academic who has co-authored texts on crime, human rights

International legal business DWF, with offices in Dublin and Belfast, has announced it has agreed to an "exclusive association" with US law firm Wood, Smith, Henning & Berman LLP (WSHB). WSHB is an LA-based full-service law firm with 56 partners and 250 lawyers across its 22 US offices, and gene

More than half a dozen law firms have been shortlisted for awards from the LGBT+ magazine GNI MAG. International law firms Pinsent Masons and Allen and Overy have been shortlisted in the Business Contribution to the Community category.

Gardaí have failed to report almost 1,600 incapacitating spray incidents to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (Gsoc) within the necessary timeframe, The Irish Times reports. Figures obtained by the newspaper show that 1,794 reports of Garda use of incapacitating spray on s

Divorce judges will assign custody over pets on a similar basis to custody over children under new legislation in the US state of California. Judges are now legally required to consider an animal's best interests in divorce proceedings, and can order shared ownership of a pet.

The directors of a construction company who, along with their wives, signed guarantees in respect of the indebtedness of their company to the Bank of Ireland, have lost their Supreme Court appeal against the €1 million summary judgment granted by the High Court in 2011. Finding that there was n

In a first for any Irish law firm, A&L Goodbody has announced the appointment of solicitor Eithne Lynch as a full-time pro bono associate. Ms Lynch joins from the Public Interest Law Alliance (PILA) and will oversee the firm's pro bono programmes and initiatives, the Irish Independent reports.

Dublin firm Philip Lee has announced its appointment to the Lucozade Ribena Suntory (LRS) legal panel, the first formal legal panel for the organisation. The panel will provide legal advice and support to the company across the UK and Ireland.