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Legislation strengthening restrictions in relation to the practice of cropping the ears of dogs will come into effect this Friday. Agriculture minister Charlie McConalogue has signed the Ear-Cropping of Dogs Regulations 2023 into law with effect from 1 September 2023.

Solicitor Deirdre O'Grady has been appointed to the board of Beaumont Hospital in Dublin for a 10-month term. Ms O'Grady has over 20 years' experience in legal, tax, governance, compliance and risk management.

Tughans has been named as Northern Ireland's most prolific M&A firm in the first half of 2023 — holding the position for an eighth consecutive year. The Belfast-based firm advised on 17 transactions in the first six months of the year, according to the latest Experian MarketIQ report.

Beauchamps LLP has emerged as Ireland's most prolific dealmaker in the first half of 2023, according to the latest Experian MarketIQ report. The firm advised on 30 transactions in the first half of the year, which saw a 25 per cent decline in deal volume after a prolonged period of growth.

A public consultation has been launched to help shape the National Centre for Research and Remembrance honouring survivors and former residents of industrial schools, Magdalen laundries, mother and baby and county home institutions and reformatories. The government has opened the consultation to ens

England's Lord Chancellor Alex Chalk and Attorney General Victoria Prentis have ordered an independent inquiry into the circumstances and handling of Andrew Malkinson’s case after his conviction for rape was quashed by the Court of Appeal last month. The inquiry will investigate the handling a

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. House where Hitler was born to become police station and human rights training centre, Austria says

European firm Fieldfisher has agreed a 10-year lease on a new Dublin headquarters at Mespil Road as it plans to grow its footprint in the Irish market. The firm’s new premises along the Grand Canal in Dublin city centre is a newly-developed stand-alone building comprising 4,460sq m of grade A

The number of pending asylum decisions in the UK has reached an unprecedented 175,457 as of June 2023 — a 44 per cent increase from the 122,213 reported in June 2022. The new figure from the Home Office surpasses the previous peak in 1999 during Tony Blair's tenure as prime minister when 125,1

A fugitive scaled an electric pole where he remained perched for close to 24 hours before coming down to face the law. Officers from Brazil's southeastern state of Minas Gerais had approached the 38-year-old man on Friday with the intent of arresting him for parole violations.

Our regular round-up of deals involving Irish law firms. Submit your deals to newsdesk@irishlegal.com. Irish development and growth capital fund manager Development Capital has invested €6 million in IP Telecom, a Dublin-based provider of unified communications and Voice over Internet Protocol

DLA Piper has rolled out a new AI-powered tool designed to detect bribery risks within corporations. The Aiscension Bribery service, powered by AI technology from Reveal, is trained by lawyers to detect the key forms of bribery behaviour including the giving or receiving of a bribe, circumventing in

The publication of the Kenova report into the Provisional IRA informer codenamed “Stakeknife” has moved a step closer after passing through security checking. The interim report focuses on the findings of Operation Kenova, the investigation into the alleged activities of the person

Finance minister Michael McGrath and journalist/author Simon Mundy have been named as the keynote speakers of an upcoming Mason Hayes & Curran conference on energy investment in Ireland. The Future of Energy Investment in Ireland will take place at The Clayton Hotel in Cork on Thursday 14 Septem

Indigenous women who were forcibly sterilised under Canada's eugenics programme have been granted permission to bring a first-of-its-kind class-action lawsuit in the province of Quebec. Justice Lukasz Granosik, of the Superior Court of Quebec, this week ruled that litigants UT and MX can bring the s