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BHSM LLP has congratulated Hannah Kenny, Jessica Russell, Conor O’Farrell and Clara Doyle on their qualification as solicitors. Richard Lee, the firm's head of employment and trainee partner, said: "We are very proud of the hard work and dedication our trainees have put in to get to this stage

Professor Michael Doherty has been appointed as chairperson of the new Employment Law Review Group (ELRG). Head of Maynooth University School of Law and Criminology from 2013 until 2022, he previously chaired the LEEF High-Level Working Group on Collective Bargaining.

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) will today hear a last-ditch attempt by TikTok owner ByteDance to prevent the video-sharing platform from being banned in the US. Under the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (PAFACA), the Chinese-owned platfor

Passengers should not have to provide their gender identity in order to buy a train ticket, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled in a case concerning the French rail network. The case arose from a complaint made by a group called Mousse to the French data protection authority

Hayes solicitors LLP has welcomed nine newly-qualified solicitors following the completion of their traineeships.

A&L Goodbody advised on more M&A transactions than any other Irish law firm in 2024, according to international M&A intelligence publication Mergermarket. The firm acted on 61 reportable Irish M&A transactions in 2024 and 292 deals in the last five years, also more than any other law

Social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram "must not retreat from facts", the European human rights commissioner Michael O'Flaherty has said. Meta, which owns both platforms, this week announced plans to scrap its independent fact-checking programme in favour of a 'community notes' system si

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Solicitor Kathryn Stevenson has been appointed as a non-executive member to the Children's Court Guardian Agency for Northern Ireland. Ms Stevenson is head of legal services at the Children's Law Centre (CLC), which offers free legal advice and information on a wide range of children's legal rights

Beauchamps has announced three senior hires in its projects, infrastructure and energy group, including Anne Maree Igoe as partner in the firm's commercial real estate practice. Ms Igoe has joined from Arthur Cox, along with Jeanie Kelly, who will be joining the firm as senior associate in the plann

A judge has annulled a marriage where the bride was tricked into going along with what she believed was a fake wedding organised as a social media prank. The woman said she was invited to what she was told was a "white party" — where everyone is expected to wear white — by a man she had

An Garda Síochána has sent a file to prosecutors following the conclusion of its lengthy criminal investigation into the findings of the Moriarty Tribunal. The tribunal of inquiry was established in 1997 to investigate the financial dealings of former taoiseach Charles Haughey and form

The extreme cold weather is continuing to disrupt court sittings, particularly in the south of Ireland. Some sittings set to take place today in the likes of Cashel, Co Tipperary and Newcastle West, Co Limerick have been cancelled and a number of court offices are closed.

Northern Ireland victims and survivors of historical child abuse in faith settings have been invited to tell their stories as part of a research study. The project, which has been commissioned by The Executive Office, will look at the experiences of victims and survivors across all faith settings. I

An Irish MEP has called for the EU to crack down on social media platforms which undermine democratic values. Cynthia Ní Mhurchú, a Fianna Fáil MEP for Ireland South, criticised Facebook and Instagram Meta, which this week announced plans to replace independent fact-checking wit