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Barristers in the trial of former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean FitzPatrick were paid record fees, The Irish Times reports. Senior counsel for the prosecution and defence were paid €3,000 a day, over three times the standard rate of €858 a day for senior counsel in Circuit Court trials.

Keystone Law has announced two significant senior hires to its Belfast office, just four months after the UK firm expanded into Northern Ireland through its merger with McMahon McKay.

Over 250 delegates celebrated the 80th anniversary of the Constitution at a successful conference in Waterford over the weekend.

Lord Neuberger The UK has a ‘serious problem’ with access to justice, the president of the UK Supreme Court has said.

Beauchamps has welcomed five interns to the firm for the next four weeks as part of the July intake of its Summer Internship Programme.

Pinsent Masons today revealed its unaudited results for 2016-17, which shows global turnover increased by 11 per cent to £423.1m. Almost 85 per cent of revenues were generated from clients operating in the firms' five global sectors, with the largest contributors advanced manufacturing & techno

MSM Law has joined with the Belfast Solicitors Association’s (BSA) charity partner – Inspire - to become an ‘Inspiration Point’ for mental health and wellbeing. The campaign is part of Inspire’s work to break down mental illness stigma and ensure that individuals have access to information

A US state has begun offering a third gender option on driving licenses. This week Oregon introduced an “X” category, which legally recognises people who are non-binary, intersex and agender on government ID cards.

Liam Herrick and Dr Eoin O'Dell Legal experts have rebuffed suggestions that Irish laws need to be tightened because of the use of social media during the Jobstown trial.

A former NAMA adviser who was the subject of several BBC Spotlight broadcasts in 2016, has had his application for an interlocutory injunction to prevent further broadcasts declined in the High Court in Belfast.The application was based on assertions that, inter alia, further broadcasts would amount

Shane Ross The ongoing row between Government and leading members of the judiciary shows little sign of abating as Independent TD and Transport Minister Shane Ross called on judges to "cool it".

Dublin-based Arthur Cox has announced the appointment of Lizanne Jones as partner in its Northern Ireland property practice.

Barristers have expressed concerns about the health impact of dust in the Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin, The Irish Times reports. A barrister said visitors to the Law Library facilities in the building have complained of "chest infections and asthma-type things that they never had before".

A bust of the lawyer and diplomat John Hearne, a key architect of the Constitution, has been unveiled in his native city of Waterford. The memorial bust by sculptor Liz O'Kane was unveiled at a ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary of the key document, addressed by Justice Minister Charlie Fla

Nicola Walsh Lavelle Solicitors has appointed Nicola Walsh as head of the firm's property team.