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A teenage girl has been apprehended after allegedly taking a New York City subway train on a joyride and crashing it. Police say the 17-year-old, along with a companion who has not yet been caught, boarded the empty train just after midnight last Thursday 12 September.
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Taylor Wessing has become the first legal firm to partner with Techies Go Green, a not-for-profit community of technology businesses committed to reducing their carbon footprint. The firm will provide pro bono legal advice to Techies Go Green members to support them to identify and manage climate ac
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A child who commits murder but turns 18 years old before sentencing will no longer face a mandatory life sentence under proposed new legislation. The government is bringing forward the Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024 in response to a High Court ruling which found that the current statutory se
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Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) chief Liam Herrick has been picked to head the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. Mr Herrick's selection by ministers following a public appointment process must now be approved by the Oireachtas before his formal appointment by President Michael D.
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The Law Society of Ireland has congratulated Michael McGrath on his appointment as EU commissioner for democracy, justice and the rule of law. Ursula von der Leyen yesterday picked the former finance minister for the job as she set out the make-up of the European Commission for her second term as pr
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Diversity in the solicitors' and barristers' professions is being hampered by the cost of qualification and the length of time it takes for a law graduate to qualify and begin to earn a reasonable salary, according to new research. The Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) today published a ser
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Gateley Legal NI has welcomed two newly-qualified solicitors and three new trainee solicitors. Amy McCartney has joined the firm's real estate team, advising clients on residential sales and purchases as well as banks, funders, and borrowers on all contentious and non-contentious real estate finance
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Legislation to "reform and modernise" Northern Ireland's justice system has been introduced at Stormont. The Justice Bill 2024 will amend retention periods for biometric material and make changes to bail and custody arrangements for children and young people, as well as aiming to improve services fo
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Belfast law firm Millar McCall Wylie has welcomed five newly-qualified solicitors to its team. The new solicitors are Cathy Kerr in employment, Patrick Boyle in litigation, Molly Rainey in corporate law, Rachel McCullogh in commercial property and Tonya Gregg in residential property.
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A former police officer has admitted stealing £2.50 from an arrestee to pay off a paltry debt at the police station tuck shop. James Tillcock would have been sacked for gross misconduct had he not already resigned, Thames Valley Police (TVP) said following a misconduct hearing.
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Northern Ireland's Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information (ICRIR) is "irreparably toxic and tainted" and should be scrapped, Amnesty International has said. The human rights organisation issued a statement ahead of Friday's Court of Appeal ruling in the Dillon case concerning the
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Chicago lawyer Caroleann Gallagher is to receive an Irish diaspora award in Donegal next week. Ms Gallagher, who grew up on Arranmore Island and was one of the first students to attend Gairmscoil Mhic Diarmada, qualified as a solicitor in Ireland in 2004 before later relocating to the US and becomin
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Six out of 10 legal professionals say mediation is the most effective alternative dispute resolution (ADR) method, a survey by business law firm Mason Hayes & Curran has found. The survey of 200 professionals was conducted at the firm’s recent dispute resolution conference at the Royal Iri
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Mills Selig has unveiled a significant renovation to its offices at 21 Arthur Street, Belfast which have been home to the local law firm since 1999. The firm has embraced a new open plan environment to make room for over 60 staff, having had just 14 lawyers when moving into the space in 1999 —
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McCann FitzGerald LLP has been named Anti-Discrimination Firm of the Year in Europe at the Legal Benchmarking Group’s Social Impact EMEA Awards 2024. The awards, which took place last Thursday in London, recognise leading law firms and figures from across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa fo
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