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Pinsent Masons has hired funds partner Conor Durkin to lead its funds team in Dublin as it continues to grow its pan-European funds capabilities. Mr Durkin specialises in investment funds and asset management and regularly advises on the establishment, structuring and operation of funds covering a r

McCann FitzGerald LLP has announced the appointment of Mark White as chair of the partnership and the promotion of seven of its senior associates to of counsel.

House sales in Northern Ireland declined by 18 per cent in the first nine months of this year, according to official figures.

Dublin-based McKenna & Co Solicitors has raised €10,000 for homelessness charity Focus Ireland after taking part in the 'Shine A Light' sleep-out.

Stalking and non-fatal strangulation have become standalone criminal offences following the commencement of a wide-ranging law which also increases the maximum sentence for various offences and introduces new protections for victims. Almost all of the Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act

Attorney General Rossa Fanning has joined UCD Sutherland School of Law as an adjunct full professor. Mr Fanning, who is a UCD Bachelor of Law graduate, was called to the Bar in 1999 and appointed senior counsel in 2016.

The families of three young boys killed during the early years of the Troubles have announced fresh legal proceedings against the UK government following the release of a new documentary. Lost Boys: Belfast's Missing Children, produced by Ed Stobart and directed by Des Henderson, links the disappear

The Law Society of Northern Ireland has said it is consulting with its insurers before deciding whether to publish a legal opinion on trainee solicitors' entitlement to the national minimum wage. Last month, Irish Legal News reported how solicitor firms were shocked to be told they owed up to tens o

Former RDJ managing partner Richard Martin has been appointed as an adjunct professor of law at University College Cork. Mr Martin remains a partner at RDJ, which he led from 2012 to 2022, during which time the firm expanded from its bases in Cork and Galway into Dublin and now employs 270 people.

Criminal assets worth over €6.3 million were seized by the State last year, new figures show. The Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) seized cash, property assets, luxury cars, watches such as Rolex, Breitling and Hublot, and clothes such as Christine Louboutin shoes and Louis Vuitton bags, according

Officials in Iran have arrested a prominent lawyer at the funeral of a teenage girl who died during an incident on the Tehran metro involving the country's morality police. Human right defender Nasrin Sotoudeh was taken in by authorities during the burial of 17-year-old Armita Garavand.

Police are on the look-out for a large quantity of bull semen stolen from a Co Tyrone farm. Two artificial insemination tanks with a "significant value" were taken from the farm near Clogher the weekend before last.

Dillon Eustace LLP has promoted Laura Goonan and Hannah Fenlon to partners in its asset management and investment funds practice in Dublin. Ms Goonan advises a wide variety of investment funds, investment managers, fund management companies and other service providers in the asset management sector

Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has appointed Hazel Doyle as a partner in its asset management and investment funds (AMIF) practice in Dublin. Ms Doyle, who joins from Arthur Cox LLP, has more than a decade of experience in the funds industry, with her practice covering the full spectrum of adviso

Criminal barristers in Northern Ireland are to stage a one-day strike on Friday 17 November 2023 in an escalating dispute over delays in legal aid payments. The Criminal Bar Association (CBA) previously balloted members on a withdrawal of services in response to “unprecedented and worsening&rd