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Online platforms will be banned from advertising short-term lets in rent pressure zones (RPZs) which do not have the requisite planning permission under proposed new rules. The government has said it will amend the law in a bid to return more homes to the long-term rental market in RPZs, where rents

Belfast firm Thompson Crooks Solicitors has announced the promotion of solicitor William Nugent to the position of director. Mr Nugent, who qualified as a solicitor in 2012 and joined the firm in 2017, is the immediate past chair of the Northern Ireland Young Solicitors' Association (NIYSA).

RDJ LLP has announced the appointment of Fionnuala Power as the firm's new people and culture director. An experienced HR strategist, Ms Power will combine her skills in HR operations, coaching and driving cultural change to strengthen employee engagement, supporting the growth and development of th

A Moscow court has sentenced an opposition councillor and lawyer to seven years' imprisonment for criticising Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in what is the first sentence to be given for such offences. Alexei Gorinov, a deputy at Moscow’s Krasnoselsky district council, was arrested in April and

The UK needs a new constitutional arbiter due to the fragility of our constitutional conventions, Lord Sumption has said. Writing in The Times, the former Supreme Court justice says that if Prime Minister Boris Johnson "had been not just bad but mad" he could have wrecked the constitution by asking

A man who tore pages from his passport in order to hide an affair from his wife has been arrested. The 32-year-old man from Mumbai told police he was unaware that tampering with his passport is a criminal offence, NDTV.com reports.

The Attorney General of England and Wales, Suella Braverman, has pledged to take the UK out of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) if she succeeds in her bid to become prime minister. Ms Braverman is one of 11 declared contenders in the race to succeed Boris Johnson, who announced his res

Proposed reforms to the Personal Injuries Assessment Board (PIAB) should be implemented as swiftly as possible, an Oireachtas committee has said. The joint committee on enterprise, trade and employment has completed its pre-legislative scrutiny of the general scheme of the Personal Injuries Resoluti

A report assessing the impact of a new ban on "price walking" in the Irish motor and home insurance markets will be produced by the Central Bank within six months. Under regulations which came into effect from 1 July 2022, Ireland became the first EU country to ban price walking, whereby renewing cu

Dublin solicitor William Aylmer has been recognised in the Oireachtas for his role in drafting a new law providing for gender balance on the boards and governing authorities of corporate bodies. The Irish Corporate Governance (Gender Balance) Bill 2021, introduced as a private member's bill by Fine

Taylor Wessing, the global law firm which expanded into Dublin last September, has reported a 13 per cent increase in revenue to total €497.5 million. The firm's financial results for the 2022 fiscal year marks its fourth consecutive year of record international revenues, with the last 12 month

Bikinis have been banned in an Italian resort town as part of a crackdown on "widespread indecorous behaviour". The coastal town of Sorrento has threatened tourists who bare their torsos with fines of up to €500, The Times reports.

Dr Evelyn Collins CBE, the chief executive of the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland, has announced her intention to step down this autumn. A graduate of University of Sheffield School of Law with Masters' degrees in criminology from the University of Toronto and human rights and discriminatio

Waiting times for Irish citizenship applications remain high with an average processing time of 22 months, according to new figures. This represents a slight improvement on 2021, when the average processing time was 23 months, but is more than three times the average of seven months five years ago,

Three law students at Maynooth University have been recognised by Matheson LLP, with two being awarded six-month internships with the firm and another winning a prestigious legal writing prize. The students were participants in the funds law course delivered by Matheson as part of Maynooth Universit