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Law students Fallon Burns and Dariya-Mariya Petryshyn from Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) have triumphed in the regional heat of the Law Society of Northern Ireland’s Client Consultation Competition 2023. The competition, which has been successfully run by the Law Society over the last

Our regular round-up of deals involving Irish law firms. Submit your deals to newsdesk@irishlegal.com. Irish-headquartered biopharmaceutical company Amryt Pharma is to be acquired by Chiesi Farmaceutici in a $1.48 billion transaction.

The London Irish Lawyers Association (LILA) will this year host its first-ever St Patrick's Dinner. Tickets are now on sale for the event at The Churchill Hotel on Thursday 16 March 2023, with a donation from the sale of each ticket to be made to the London Irish Centre.

Irish law must be urgently changed to ensure that defendants who turn 18 while awaiting trial continue to be dealt with through the child justice system, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) has been told. Molly Joyce, acting executive director of the Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT),

Plans to overhaul Ireland's "antiquated" licensing laws will be considered by the Oireachtas justice committee today. The committee will this afternoon begin pre-legislative scrutiny on the Sale of Alcohol Bill 2022, which will bring Ireland’s patchwork of more than 100 licensing laws, some da

Elton John's half-brother tried and failed to bring an enormous trident spear to his court appearance for possessing magic mushrooms. Geoff Dwight, 56, from Ruthin in north Wales, brought the long pole-shaped item to Llandudno Magistrates Court last week but was prevented by security guards from bri

Abraham Lincoln said a good settlement is better than a good lawsuit, and if you are a solicitor or barrister you’ll know that you are obliged to to try to pursue the former, and only resort to the latter if settlement can’t be reached. But why leave it at that?

Proposed UK government amendments to its controversial Troubles bill do not address concerns raised by victims and human rights campaigners and some of them "would actually make the bill worse", according to a new analysis. The Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) and academic colleagues

A decision to label a children's book depicting same-sex relationships as harmful to young children violated the author's right to free speech, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled.

Legislation introducing a soft opt-out system of consent for organ donation is set to be debated in the Dáil this afternoon. The Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill includes provisions around organ donation and transplantation, post-mort

Irish business law firm Mason Hayes & Curran has reported an eight per cent increase in revenue to €106 million in 2022. The firm — the only major Irish law firm to publish its financial results — said work for both domestic and international clients grew, mirroring the overall

Belfast-based MKB Law has appointed Céadhra Cummings as a solicitor in the firm's family law department. Ms Cummings advises on a variety of family law matters such as divorce, separation, domestic violence, children’s contact, public law care orders and financial settlements.

People injured by e-bikes and e-scooters should be entitled to compensation from the Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (MIBI), a prominent personal injury solicitor has said. Liam Moloney, managing partner of Kildare firm Moloney & Co Solicitors and vice-president of the Pan European Organisatio

Global legal business DWF has named five new directors, two new senior associates and three new associates in its Belfast office. Real estate lawyers Kathleen Gillespie and Tomás McLaughlin, dispute resolution lawyer Michelle Cully and defence healthcare lawyer Laura Menary have been promoted

Dr John Stannard, a senior lecturer at Queen's University Belfast School of Law, has been awarded an awarded an OBE in the New Year Honours list for services to legal education. Born in East Anglia and brought up and educated in the north of England, Dr Stannard read law at the University of Oxford