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Carson McDowell has continued its support for the Belfast School of Art (BSoA) annual degree show in the art school's 175th anniversary.

Benedict Taaffe has named by Matheson as the winner of the 2024 Tim Scanlon Corporate Law Bursary. Now in its third year, the annual bursary honours the memory of late Matheson partner Tim Scanlon.

Judges failed subpostmasters convicted in the Horizon scandal, according to a former director of public prosecutions of England and Wales. Sir David Calvert-Smith, 79, who reviewed scores of appeals for the Post Office, said that in at least 12 convictions, judges ought to have “probed”

Belfast-based Paschal O'Hare Solicitors has expanded its newly-established hearing loss department with the appointment of legal professional Ella McConville. Ms McConville graduated from Queen's University Belfast with an undergraduate degree in law in 2023 and aspires to complete a postgraduate de

The Galway Solicitors Bar Association (GSBA) will host a CPD event followed by drinks and a summer BBQ later this month. Ruadhán Ó Ciaráin BL and Dr Róisín Á Costello BL will speak at the CPD event in the Oak Bar at the Glenlo Abbey Hotel on 28 June 2024 fro

The Law Society of Northern Ireland has published its new diversity, equality and inclusion strategy. Developed through consultation with members and wider stakeholders, the strategy identifies three strategic objectives under the headings of 'access to the profession', 'building a successful career

Dublin firm O'Brien Redmond Solicitors has merged with Ken Kennedy Law, the two firms announced today. Inspired by a generation of family solicitors before him, O'Brien Redmond Solicitors was established by Brian O'Brien in 1997. Mr O'Brien's mother was a solicitor and her aunt became Ireland's firs

Intellectual property specialist Lane IP, with an office on Dublin's North Wall Quay, has been acquired by Swedish-headquartered Abion. All offices and affiliated of Lane IP, which is based in the UK, will rebrand as Abion in September 2024 to support Abion's long-term ambition to build an internati

Pro bono work has been "mainstreamed into the Irish legal culture" — but that was not the case until relatively recently, FLAC chief executive Eilis Barry points out. When Ms Barry joined the legal charity FLAC in 2016, Éamonn Conlon SC, then a partner in A&L Goodbody LLP, had just

Northern Ireland's Department of Justice is considering whether journalists should be allowed to report on family court proceedings in response to calls from domestic abuse survivors. Several women have met with the victims of crime commissioner designate to push for increased transparency in the fa

The government has confirmed it has received the 700-page report of the scoping inquiry into historical sexual abuse in day and boarding schools run by religious orders and is now preparing for its publication. Mary O'Toole SC was appointed in March 2023 to lead the scoping inquiry, which was origin

Motorists can take to the Autobahn just a few hours after lighting up a cannabis joint under new rules. German MPs have voted to back a new legal driving limit of 3.5 nanograms of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) — the main psychoactive component of cannabis — per millilitre of blood.

A fresh proposal to increase Northern Ireland's minimum age of criminal responsibility, currently the lowest in Europe at just 10 years old, is to come before the Executive. Justice minister Naomi Long has previously spoken of her frustration at the lack of political consensus on raising the age (MA

Ryanair has lost an EU court challenge against the European Commission's approval of a €10 billion solvency support fund launched by the Spanish government in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Spain notified the Commission in July 2020, at the height of the pandemic, of the aid scheme to set u

Dozens of lawyers have signed an open letter urging an end to the "crisis in the creation of enduring powers of attorney". Since April 2023, enduring powers of attorney must be created through an online portal managed by the Decision Support Service (DSS).