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Standing: JP Comerford, JP McDowell (MP) Sitting: Karen O’Brien, James Roddy, Honor Hargaden Four newly-qualified solicitors have joined the McDowell Purcell team in Dublin after completing their training.

Pamela Irvine Mackenzie & Dorman Solicitors has welcomed solicitor Pamela Irvine to the practice.

The Supreme Court will hear an appeal over the meaning of the word "unborn" in the Constitution as early as next month. The State requested a hearing as early as possible to avoid hearings taking place during campaigning for the referendum on repealing the Eighth Amendment.

Tributes have been paid to to Hugh Sheridan, the retiring State Solicitor for County Sligo, the Sligo Champion reports. Mr Sheridan qualified as a solicitor in 1982 and was appointed State Solicitor in 1998 to succeed Tom Tighe.

Jeremy Wright QC The UK's Attorney General, Jeremy Wright QC, is to appear personally in the Court of Appeal to argue that a woman convicted of promoting so-called Islamic State (IS) should be imprisoned.

Sinn Féin and the SDLP have urged the return of 50:50 recruitment to the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), The Irish Times reports. Figures show that just 31 per cent of the 7,700 applicants for 300 new officer posts are Catholic.

A trainee solicitor has pleaded guilty to seriously assaulting his girlfriend during a drunken argument, the Derry Journal reports. Kevin McDaid, 31, admitted a charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm on 2 December 2017, but denied an additional charge of causing damage to a police car.

A solicitor accused of bringing cocaine into Mountjoy Prison for an inmate is facing an additional charge for unlawful possession of cocaine, the Irish Independent reports. Dublin solicitor Aonghus McCarthy, 32, was originally charged in November on one charge of conveying a controlled drug into Mou

A businessman whose premises were searched by the Gardaí on foot of a search warrant in 2014, has had his appeal dismissed in the Court of Appeal. The man had been refused an order for discovery of the relevant information in the High Court as he was not entitled to such, and the Court of Appeal up

The Bar of Ireland has launched a new initiative to promote Ireland as a world-leading centre of legal services after Brexit, with support from the IDA, the legal community and Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said he is concerned that proposals to allow abortions on request up to 12 weeks may be "a step too far" for most Irish people, The Irish Times reports.

Brexit poses inherent risks to the enjoyment of existing human rights in Northern Ireland, according to a new report published by the Human Rights Consortium. The RIGHTS AT RISK – Brexit, Human Rights and Northern Ireland report is the product of extensive research by the Consortium with its membe

Social media giant Facebook has reached a confidential settlement with a 14-year-old girl who sued the company after a nude photograph of her was posted on the platform, the High Court in Belfast has heard. As well as suing the man alleged to have posted the photo, she sued the social media company,

The term "spouse" includes a spouse of the same sex for the purposes of European free movement, even in member states whose laws do not provide for same-sex marriage, according to Advocate General Melchior Wathelet. Although member states are free to authorise marriage between persons of the same se

David Drumm, the former chief executive of Anglo Irish Bank, has pleaded not guilty to being involved in an alleged €7.2 billion conspiracy to defraud and to dishonestly providing false information to the market. A specially enlarged jury of 15 jurors was sworn in yesterday at Dublin Circuit Crimi