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James McGovern has joined immigration consultancy Fragomen Ireland as a senior immigration consultant. Prior to joining Fragomen, Mr McGovern provided advice and assistance to non-EEA nationals across a broad range of areas including international protection, naturalisation, domestic immigration per

Lord Lloyd-Jones has been re-appointed to the UK Supreme Court alongside new justice Sir David Richards. The retired justice's reappointment has been made possible the increasing of the mandatory judicial retirement age earlier this year from 70 to 75.

The UK government must reveal more passages of internal documents assessing the human rights situation in Rwanda which were drawn up before ministers adopted a controversial asylum policy, a court has ruled. Lawyers acting for foreign secretary Liz Truss had asked the High Court to grant public inte

A partner at a City of London firm has been sanctioned for wrongly advising her clients that they could share a Zoom link for a remote court hearing. Ziva Robertson, partner at US-headquartered McDermott Will & Emery, received a written rebuke from the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) on Mo

A university library's prized manuscript by Galileo has been identified as a forgery. The University of Michigan Library described the document as one of its "great treasures", believing it to be a draft of a letter sent by Galileo to the Doge of Venice in 1609.

Proposals to enshrine the right to housing in the Constitution are based on a "gross untruth" and are not necessary to tackle the housing crisis, barrister and politician, Michael McDowell has said. Writing in The Irish Times, the senator and former justice minister and attorney general said such a

Thousands of victims of the infected blood scandal will each receive an interim compensation payment of £100,000, the UK government has announced. Payments will be made in England by the end of October, while the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will have respon

Immigration solicitor Samantha Arnold has joined immigration consultancy Fragomen Ireland as a manager. Ms Arnold assists international businesses in relocating their employees and their families to Ireland. Prior to joining Fragomen, she was a practising solicitor in Ireland specialising in corpora

A man rescued from a collapsed makeshift tunnel near the Vatican has been arrested on suspicion of attempting an elaborate bank heist. Italian police believe that the man and three others were attempting to dig a tunnel into a nearby bank, the BBC reports.

Former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani is being investigated for potential criminal offences arising from his efforts to overturn the 2020 US presidential election. Mr Giuliani will face a special grand jury in Atlanta, Georgia today, which is investigating alleged election interference in the state.

Catherine Allison & Co Solicitors has announced a merger with Belfast practice Leeson & Co Solicitors. Prior to the merger, Catherine Allison & Co Solicitors had an office in Newry, Co Down in addition to its headquarters in Dundalk, Co Louth.

Employers in Northern Ireland "will need to be willing to pay their employees more" as the cost of living crisis bites, law firm DWF has said. There were a record 779,300 employees receiving pay through HMRC PAYE in Northern Ireland in July 2022, an increase of 0.4 per cent over the month and an inc

An Garda Síochána is continuing to struggle with a three-year backlog of seized electronic devices, according to a new report. The Policing Authority's assessment of policing performance in the first half of 2022 says there is "enduring concern" over the backlog and its impact on "the

Trade mark attorney Gretha Cachia has joined Stobbs Ireland, the trade mark law specialist which launched earlier this summer. From its office on Merrion Street, which is led by Mary White and opened in June, Stobbs Ireland supports clients in Ireland and throughout the EU. The firm represents a num

Parliamentary privilege would be extended to members of the Scottish Parliament under plans set out by Liz Truss ahead of a Tory leadership hustings in Perth, Scotland this evening. At present, MSPs — like members of the devolved assemblies in Wales and Northern Ireland — do not have the