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A full-time Marine Accident Investigation Unit will be established within the Department of Transport under legislative plans agreed by ministers. The Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill will provide for the new unit to replace the Marine Casualty Investigation Board (MCIB), s

Three partners, a new director and two senior associates are among senior lateral hire appointments to DWF's commercial team in Belfast. New partners Mark Blair, Olivia O'Kane and Scott Kennedy, director Caroline McNally and senior associates Amanda Byrnes and Emma Copeland join 26 other legal profe

A new centralised agency will provide a property registration system, property valuation service and national mapping and surveying infrastructure for the State is set to be established following the approval of legislation. The Tailte Éireann Bill 2022 yesterday completed its journey through

Global law firm Dentons has recruited Niamh Keogh as a tax partner in its Dublin office. Ms Keogh joins the firm from Mason Hayes & Curran, where she is currently a partner and co-head of tax.

Never mind the boardroom — Belfast-based MKB Law left behind the office for the beach in its latest staff photos published on a refreshed website.

Justices of the UK Supreme Court took part in a virtual exchange with the High Court of Australia this month. The event was part of a series of virtual bilateral meetings with judges globally. Roundtable discussions were led by justices from each delegation on different topics, including the structu

The Children's Law Centre brought an "unprecedented" 27 judicial review cases in the past year, the highest ever. At its AGM yesterday, the law centre launched its annual report for 2021–22, highlighting a growing workload with legal cases growing in both number and complexity.

New research into Ireland's family law system has found that the voices of infants and very young children are "starkly absent" from decision-making. The first-of-its-kind research was conducted by an interdisciplinary team of researchers from Trinity College Dublin and University College Cork and i

Sir John MacDermott, a retired Lord Justice of Appeal in Northern Ireland, has passed away at the age of 95. A graduate of the University of Cambridge and Queen's University Belfast, Sir John was simultaneously called to the bar in England and Wales and in Northern Ireland in 1949. He became a QC in

A senior law firm partner was left embarrassed after circulating a memo about climate change with reference to the non-existent "Valerian Sea". In a newsletter sent round a City of London firm, the lawyer said he had a "eureka moment" when he was "leaving a Scandinavian port on the Valerian Sea in t

A government review of freedom of information legislation originally due for summer 2022 will not now be completed until early 2023. The review, announced in June 2021, is at "an advanced stage" but will not be completed this year, public expenditure and reform minister Michael McGrath said yesterda

New legislation aimed at growing credit union lending has been approved by Senators and will now go before TDs. The Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022, published earlier this month, is the first substantive credit union legislation since 2012, which followed the Commission on Credit Unions.

Professor Caroline Fennell, a professor emerita of law at University College Cork, is among the first four people nominated for appointment to the new Electoral Commission, which will be entitled An Coimisiún Toghcháin. Ministers yesterday agreed to nominate Professor Fennell, along wi

Major changes to the planning application process, including new restrictions on judicial review applications and legal costs, have been unveiled by the government. Ministers have published the outline of the new Planning and Development Bill 2022, which follows a 15-month review of the planning sys

The Traveller Equality and Justice Project (TEJP) has won recognition at University College Cork's Teaching Excellence Awards. A partnership between UCC School of Law and legal rights group FLAC, the project operates a clinic providing information and representation to Travellers who have experience