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Reddy Charlton partner Elaine McGrath has joined the founding board of social enterprise Common Knowledge (CK). Based in North Clare, Common Knowledge is a non-profit social enterprise working to empower people with the skills for a sustainable life.

Ivor Fitzpatrick and Company Solicitors has announced the appointment of two new partners with the promotion of Michael Commons and Graham Macken. Michael and Graham work on commercial litigation, debt recovery, insolvency and transactional matters in the frm. They work for a variety of clients incl

The Law Reform Commission has published a "plain English" version of its consultation paper on the liability of clubs, societies and other unincorporated associations. The plain English version is designed to generate participation by the general public in the consultation process and to encourage d

Irish Rule of Law International (IRLI) has appointed Anne-Marie Blaney as the NGO's new Northern Ireland programme lawyer. Admitted to practice by the Law Societies of England and Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland, Ms Blaney is active as an independent mediator, a lecturer in law, and a tutor and

TikTok has been fined €5 million by France's data protection watchdog over violations of EU cookie rules. Regulator CNIL said users of the tiktok.com website could not refuse cookies as easily as accepting them, and were not informed in a sufficiently precise manner of the purposes of different

The lack of specialist services and residential care beds in Ireland for children with behavioural difficulties is a key theme in the latest volume of case reports published today by the Child Law Project. The new volume comprises 62 reports — 50 from the District Court and 11 from the High Co

Human rights lawyer Michael Clements has rejoined Belfast-based KRW LAW LLP after two years working at the registry of the European Court of Human Rights. Mr Clements, who is dual-qualified as a solicitor north and south of the border, will work in the firm's public and administrative law and civil

The UK's home secretary Suella Braverman has doubled down on her use of inflammatory language after being confronted by a survivor of the Holocaust at a meeting in her constituency on Friday. Joan Salter, 83, told Ms Braverman that her language reminded her of that used by the Nazis to justify murde

A couple is set to go to court in defence of a rooster who has racked up thousands in fines for crowing too loudly. Jackie and Drew Tanenbaum, from Maryland, have been fined $4,800 (around €4,400) over Wilbur the rooster's crowing following a neighbour's complaints, local TV channel WTKR News 3

All legal businesses listed on the London Stock Exchange saw their share prices fall last year — with one tumbling by as much as 85 per cent. There are six listed legal services businesses, all of which performed poorly despite the broadly stable overall market, The Times reports.

Declan Black, former managing partner of Mason Hayes & Curran, has joined the board of directors of Rethink Ireland. Formerly known as the Social Innovation Fund Ireland, the charity provides cash grants and business supports the most innovative non-profit organisations working in communities ac

A&L Goodbody has appointed Robbie O'Driscoll as head of its London office. Mr O'Driscoll, a partner in the firm's finance group, is relocating from Dublin to London to take on the leadership role. He succeeds Stephen Carson, who returns to the Dublin office after leading the London office for fi

Women at Ireland's largest law firms are earning up to 61 per cent less than their male colleagues, figures released under Ireland's gender pay gap reporting law suggest.

Retired Belfast solicitor James Wilson Russell has passed away at the age of 100. Mr Russell, known to many as Jay, qualified as a solicitor in 1944 after an apprenticeship with TG Mackintosh of Newtownards.

Slaughter and May has made its ‘Bring your Dog to Work Day’ permanent following a trial last summer. The firm allowed lawyers and staff to bring their dogs to work last year to alleviate stress.