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McCann FitzGerald has promoted seven lawyers to senior associate.

Northern Ireland firm Cleaver Fulton Rankin has expanded its corporate and commercial team with the appointment of solicitors Adele Patterson and Emma Coey. Ms Coey newly joins the firm, while Ms Patterson has been appointed to the role following her completion of the firm's trainee solicitor progra

A blind man who made a complaint of disability discrimination against his bank has secured a settlement with legal assistance from the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. The man experienced ongoing difficulties in using the online banking services of a high-street bank. His first difficulty

A public inquiry into the UK's Horizon IT scandal has amassed enough evidence for police to open a criminal investigation into senior staff at the Post Office, lawyers for the wrongfully convicted postmasters have said. More than 700 sub-postmasters in the UK were falsely prosecuted between 2000 and

Legal battles over wills have soared in England and Wales by more than 34 per cent in five years, new figures show. Data from the Ministry of Justice show that 195 inheritance disputes went to court last year — as compared with 145 in 2017.

The Irish government should campaign to have a consent-based definition of rape included in a new EU directive on violence against women, Dublin Rape Crisis Centre (DRCC) has said. Frances Fitzgerald, the former justice minister and current Fine Gael MEP, said last year that some EU member states ar

Ireland's statutory agency dedicated to tackling and reducing domestic, sexual and gender-based violence (DSGBV) and supporting victims and survivors has been formally established. Cuan, an Irish work meaning a safe haven, harbour or place of shelter, has been chosen as the "working name" of the new

The Attorney General has been asked to advise the government of its options following the conviction of a Circuit Court judge for attempted rape and sexual assault. Judge Gerard O'Brien was convicted in late December of sexually abusing six men between 1991 and 1997 while working as a Dublin schoolt

A grisly horror movie and a violent video game are among the first new projects featuring Mickey Mouse following the expiration of US copyright protections. Mickey's first cartoon, Steamboat Willie — a roughly eight-minute black-and-white cartoon released in 1928 — entered the publi

Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill has reached a settlement in a libel action against DUP MP Sammy Wilson. Pádraig Ó Muirigh, director of Ó Muirigh Solicitors, said: "The objective all along in this legal action was to correct the public record in relation to the date of knowle

The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) has issued a legal challenge over the allocation of 'intimidation points' to social housing applicants. The case against the Northern Ireland Housing Executive and the Department for Communities argues that the housing selection scheme, as current

The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has been granted leave to bring a judicial review against the government over its failure to provide accommodation to asylum seekers arriving in Ireland. The proceedings before the High Court have been brought by the Commission in its own name, invoking

There is no constitutional bar to the introduction of a statutory framework and protections for collective bargaining, according to new research by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. Ireland is currently an outlier among European countries in not protecting an entitlement to engage in c

LK Shields LLP has welcomed six newly-qualified associate solicitors.

Dublin firm McGroddy Brennan LLP has announced a successful merger with Naas-based Paul A Ferris and Co. Merrion Street-headquartered McGroddy Brennan LLP offers expert legal advice across property, commercial, family, employment, social housing, mediation, dispute resolution, litigation and probate