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The second edition of the annual Law Magazine published by Clarus Press is now available online. In the cover story, barrister and journalist Brenda Power writes on how lawyers have been portrayed by Hollywood and in television dramas.

Former Bar Council chairperson Paul McGarry SC has been elected as president of Arbitration Ireland. Mr McGarry is a private client barrister and experienced international arbitrator who served as chair of the Bar Council from 2016 to 2018.

Retired Co Antrim solicitor Patrick Diamond has passed away. Mr Diamond was admitted to the roll in 1988, and practised in Randalstown-based Patrick Diamond & Co before retiring in 2009.

Rapper 50 Cent has taken legal action against a plastic surgeon allegedly using his image to promote penis enhancement surgery. The lawsuit centres on a photo of the rapper with Angela Kogan, who runs Perfection Plastic Surgery & Med Spa in Florida, the Miami Herald reports.

Our regular round-up of deals involving Irish law firms. Submit your deals to newsdesk@irishlegal.com. Horizon Therapeutics plcs, a global biotechnology company headquartered in Dublin, is to be acquired by Amgen Inc. for an enterprise value of $28.3 billion.

Applications have opened for solicitors and barristers seeking to become a senior counsel next year. Legal practitioners who wish to be granted patents of precedence, allowing them to use the title of senior counsel, must submit their application by 5pm on Thursday 16 February 2023.

Business law firm Flynn O'Driscoll LLP has named two new senior associates and five new associates. The new senior associates are Jonathan O'Beirne and Majella Crennan, both in the corporate team.

Judges have a duty to speak out when the rule of law is under threat at a national or international level, according to new guidelines from the Council of Europe’s Consultative Council of European Judges (CCJE). The CCJE was asked by the Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers to prepare an

The Supreme Court did not develop a "significant backlog" during the pandemic with over 100 judgments delivered last year, according to its latest annual report. Writing in the foreword to the court's 2021 annual report, which was published today, Chief Justice Donal O'Donnell said the pandemic "con

International law firm Taylor Wessing has recruited corporate finance and M&A specialists Paddy Quinlan and Dannie Hanna to its Dublin office. Mr Quinlan joins the firm as a partner from Maples and Calder, bringing over 20 years' experience as a specialist corporate finance and M&A lawyer.

The UK government's plan to deport migrants to Rwanda is lawful, the High Court in London has ruled. The court ruled yesterday that the scheme did not fall foul of the UN's Refugee Convention on human rights laws.

Customs authorities at one of Europe's busiest ports have hailed a "white Christmas" after seizing nearly nine tonnes of cocaine. Officials in Antwerp seized 3.9 tonnes of cocaine last Monday and a further 4.8 tonnes last Wednesday, Belgian broadcaster VRT reports.

A former secretary at a Nazi concentration camp has been convicted of complicity in the murder of more than 10,000 people. Irmgard Furchne, 97, worked from June 1943 to April 1945 as a stenographer and typist at the Stutthof concentration camp, where around 65,000 people were killed, including 28,00

International law firm Walkers has appointed Elliot Milton as of counsel in its asset finance team in Dublin. Mr Milton is a former senior vice president at SMBC Aviation Capital. He previously worked in private practice in Dublin, London and Brussels for several years before working as a diplomat i

Staff at JMK Solicitors and CRASH Services have donated a total of £41,000 to their 2022 charity partner, Cancer Fund for Children.