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LK Shields has appointed Laura Keane as a senior associate in the firm's litigation and dispute resolution team. Ms Keane advises on a wide range of commercial disputes, with a particular focus on insurance litigation. She has significant experience in acting on behalf a broad range of clients acros

The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) has launched a public consultation on revised merger guidelines. The current CCPC guidelines for merger analysis were adopted in October 2014 and set out the watchdog's analytical framework and approach to conducting merger analysis.

The International Bar Association (IBA) has formally endorsed the Council of Europe's Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law. The convention is the first international legally binding treaty for the governance of AI. It aims to ensure that act

RDJ has appointed partner Ronan Geary as head of the firm's dispute resolution group and partner Diarmaid Gavin as head of the corporate and commercial group. Mr Geary, a partner in the firm's Cork office, takes over the leadership of the dispute resolution team from Darryl Broderick, who held the p

Criminal legal aid fees will be increased by eight per cent next year in a move that comes as a disappointment to lawyers who hoped to see full fee restoration in Budget 2025. Some €9 million has been allocated to the criminal legal aid budget to cover the costs of the fee increase from 1 Janua

A man has been jailed for six months for his leading role in a decade-long effort to create "giant sheep hybrids" using illegal cloning techniques. Arthur “Jack” Schubarth, 81, admitted smuggling parts of the largest sheep in the world — Marco Polo argali sheep (Ovis ammon polii) &

The Irish government has begun unveiling Budget 2025, with criminal lawyers hoping for a break-through in a long-running campaign for fee restoration. This is the first government budget since the Bar Council led criminal barristers out on an unprecedented withdrawal of services across three days th

Global law firm Clyde & Co welcomed representatives from Northern Ireland's insurance industry to Tesla's flagship centre in Belfast for a unique event discussing the barriers to improved take-up of electric and hybrid vehicles.

The UK's Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has today begun examining the PSNI surveillance complaint brought by investigative journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey. The two journalists were arrested in 2018 following the release of No Stone Unturned, their documentary about the 1994 Loughi

McCann FitzGerald LLP has delivered its first lecture as part of a new sustainability-focused curriculum for students at University College Cork (UCC). Éamon Ó Cuív, partner at McCann FitzGerald and newly-appointed adjunct professor at UCC’s School of Law, addressed studen

The Bar of Northern Ireland is looking for its new charity partner for 2025/26. Every year, the Bar's charity committee undertakes a number of fundraising initiatives in support of its charity partner.

Beauchamps LLP will remain official legal advisors to Leinster Rugby under an extension to their long-standing partnership. The firm's relationship with Leinster Rugby has been going for longer than 10 years and has now been extended for a  further two seasons, with an option of a third. 

A new action plan to address child criminal exploitation (CCE) in Northern Ireland has been launched. A four-page document sets out the cross-departmental, multi-agency plan to improve the government's response to the criminal exploitation of young people and to embed this within the child protectio

A company which claimed to have invented "the world's first robot lawyer" has agreed to pay a nearly $200,000 settlement over its marketing claims. DoNotPay faced action from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) after allegedly claiming its AI-powered tool could "sue anyone with the click of a butt

The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor is to consider investigating Belarus for alleged crimes against humanity carried out against the country's civilian population. Belarus has not ratified the Rome Statute but has been referred by Lithuania, which argues that "part of the elemen