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The government has signalled an openness to reforming the criminal legal aid system to provide for direct payments to barristers practising in the District Court.

Every household in Northern Ireland is to receive a leaflet outlining the support, services, and compensation available for victims and survivors of historical institutional abuse. The leaflet, which will be distributed from this week, is the latest phase of an awareness campaign which started in Ma

Refugee and migration law expert Professor Cathryn Costello has been appointed as full professor of law at UCD Sutherland School of Law. Professor Costello is currently professor of fundamental rights and co-director of the Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School in Berlin, and Andrew W.

Nineteen barristers and three solicitors have been granted patents of precedence allowing them to use the title of senior counsel. In contrast to last year, when more women than men were appointed as senior counsel for the first time, less than a third (32 per cent) of this year's appointments are w

McCann FitzGerald LLP welcomed 300 guests to its recent 2023 In-House Counsel Conference in Dublin’s Marker Hotel, which included a series of discussions focused on the theme of "legal practice in an evolving environment". The half-day event was designed to address the key challenges and conce

The number of Irish sustainability-focused funds has grown by more than 40 per cent since the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) was introduced in 2021, according to new analysis by the Maples Group. The inaugural edition of SFDR Impact Analysis contains a detailed assessment of the cu

Over 1,000 runners took part in the 25th Calcutta Run, the legal fundraiser which aims to raise €400,000 for The Hope Foundation and Peter McVerry Trust.

Mountjoy Prison governor Eddie Mullins has been appointed as chair of the Dublin North Inner City local community safety partnership (LCSP). Under the Department of Justice’s community safety policy, LCSPs will replace and build upon the existing joint policing committees. There are currently

Forcing government lawyers to work in an open-plan office could lead to recruitment issues, the Chief State Solicitor's Office (CSSO) has warned. The CSSO told the Office of Public Works (OPW) that an open-plan layout in the planned new headquarters for the CSSO and the broader Office of the Attorne

The Law Society of Ireland's latest free massive open online course (MOOC), dealing with social media and the law, commences today. The five-week course will focus on the Online Safety and Media Regulations Act 2022, online harassment, disinformation/fake news, cancel culture, data privacy, child sa

Darth Vader felt the light side of the law when a Chilean judge reduced his sentence from a lifetime frozen in carbonite to just 30 years. The Star Wars villain appeared in the dock in Chile's second city, Valparaíso, for a mock trial staged by real judges and lawyers as part of Chile's Herit

The Irish government has reaffirmed its support for a new treaty on international co-operation to investigate and prosecute the most serious international crimes. The Ljubljana-Hague Convention, adopted after two weeks of intensive negotiations, is the first major treaty in the field of internationa

Beauchamps has appointed Pat McInerney and Shane Costelloe as partners in the firm. Mr McInerney joins the firm as head of the public and regulatory team, while Mr Costelloe has been appointed as a partner in the employment and benefits groups.

A new treaty on international co-operation to investigate and prosecute the most serious international crimes has been adopted after two weeks of intensive negotiations. The Ljubljana-Hague Convention is the first major treaty in the field of international criminal law since the Rome Statute which e

A dozen people who were convicted of witchcraft in the 17th century, most of whom were subsequently executed, have been exonerated in the US state of Connecticut. A resolution recognising the convictions and executions as a "miscarriage of justice" was approved by the Connecticut State Senate in a 3