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A woman has been awarded £1,000 in compensation after her mother’s ashes were mistakenly sent through an EU country, opened by border officials and returned with some of the contents spilled. The daughter, referred to as Mrs R in proceedings, had paid £1,440 to direct cremation fir

Beauchamps has announced the promotion of Jeanie Kelly to partner in the firm's projects, infrastructure & energy group, specialising in planning & environment law. Having joined the firm in January 2025, Ms Kelly has quickly distinguished herself as a leading practitioner in the field, brin

Arthur Cox has appointed two new partners and six new of counsel across the firm.

University College Cork Law Society is to host the Intervarsity Law Summit 2026 later this month, bringing together law students from across the island alongside members of the judiciary, the legal profession, and academia. Established in UCC, the Intervarsity Law Summit has grown to become Ireland&

Top legal figures will next week address a major day-long conference on civil legal aid reform. Hosted by FLAC and Trinity College Dublin School of Law, the conference will bring together Ireland’s access to justice stakeholders and experts to respond to the review of the civil legal aid schem

An Garda Síochána has come under further pressure to investigate Elon Musk's social media company X for alleged breaches of child sexual abuse legislation. The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) and Digital Rights Ireland (DRI) said in a joint statement that X Internet Unlimited

Carson McDowell partner Cathal O'Neill has been re-elected as Northern Ireland chair of the Forum of Insurance Lawyers (FOIL). Mr O'Neill is co-head of the defence insurance litigation team at Carson McDowell, which he joined in 2017.

A&L Goodbody Northern Ireland LLP has welcomed Keith Dunn as a new partner in its commercial and technology department in Belfast. Mr Dunn advises clients on a broad range of commercial and contractual matters, with a particular focus on data protection, intellectual property and cyber security.

Foot Anstey McKees has recruited Chris Milligan and Michael Kelly to its Belfast office as partners. The firm has made a total of 10 new appointments in Belfast since last year's tie-up between Northern Ireland firm McKees and UK law firm Foot Antsey.

A new public interest test for remedies in judicial review cases is among a swathe of significant reforms proposed in a wide-ranging government bill. Justice, home affairs and migration minister Jim O'Callaghan has now published the general scheme of the Civil Reform Bill, which also proposes m

Legal costs associated with planning and environmental judicial reviews have increased dramatically over the past decade, a newly-published report has highlighted. The 78-page research report was prepared by law firm Fieldfisher for the the Office of the Planning Regulator (OPR) in December 2023 but

Coimisiún na Meán and An Garda Síochána have been urged to take action against Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok, which has been used to generate and share sexually explicit images of women and children. Ireland's media regulator has told RTÉ News that it is engaging wit

Saudi Arabia carried out 356 executions in 2025, the highest number recorded in a single year in the kingdom. Observers have linked the sharp rise to Riyadh’s intensifying “war on drugs”, with many of those arrested in earlier years being executed following the conclusion of legal

Caldwell & Robinson Solicitors has welcomed Barry Donnelly back to the firm as a partner. Mr Donnelly rejoins the firm having spent five years as head of information governance and data protection officer at Northern Ireland's Education Authority.

A former Kildare-based car dealer has been fined and ordered to pay costs following a prosecution brought by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC). Ionut Nitulescu pleaded guilty to misleading a consumer about the history of a second-hand car, an offence under consumer protection