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Ulster University Law School yesterday hosted a "discussion and debate" with Sir Declan Morgan on the UK government's controversial legacy law.

Ireland's chief justice hosted a meeting of some of the EU's most senior judges at Dublin's Farmleigh House yesterday.

Over 1,600 walkers and runners took part in this year's Calcutta Run to raise funds for The Hope Foundation and Dublin Simon Community. Since 1999, the legal profession's annual fundraiser has raised more than €5.3 million in support of homelessness services in Ireland and Kolkata (formerly Cal

Palestinian human rights defender Shawan Jabarin has received the University of Galway’s 2024 Alumni Award for Law, Public Policy and Society.

Corina Farrell has been named as winner of the light-hearted McCarthy Impromptu Debate 2024, which took at the King's Inns last week. Ms Farrell competed with Michael White, Catey Clarkson and David Irwin, who all spoke on the motion: "This house believes that public houses should be permitted to re

Judge Suzanne Kingston of the General Court of the European Union delivered this year's John M. Kelly Memorial Lecture at UCD Sutherland School of Law.

Matheson lawyers were among participants in the Savills Ireland Cork Charity Challenge in aid of The Crann Centre which took place at Penrose Dock last week.

The Dublin Solicitors' Bar Association (DSBA) hosted its annual dinner in The Westbury on Friday, with over 110 solicitors enjoying the night of "dinner, drink and song".

Cork barristers have raised over €7,000 for charity in memory of Jane Anne Rothwell BL and all their colleagues lost to cancer. The Cork Bar Daffodil Day fundraiser in the Washington Street courthouse on 19 March 2024 raised a total of €7,278 for the Irish Cancer Society.

The London Irish Lawyers' Association (LILA) celebrated St Patrick's Day with dinner, drinks and a guest appearance from defamation lawyer Paul Tweed.

Activist and sports journalist Joanne O'Riordan was welcomed to the King's Inns last week as keynote speaker for the Bar of Ireland's ninth annual International Women's Day dinner. Ms O'Riordan studied criminology in University College Cork (UCC) and is only one of seven people in the world living w

Northern Ireland's first and deputy first ministers, the first-ever Lady Chief Justice and women leaders in the law, employment, public life and the women's sector were among guest speakers at an event marking International Women's Day and 25 years of the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland. Th

Northern Ireland firm Carson McDowell has congratulated its seven newly-qualified solicitors on their admission to the roll.

The Financial Services Bar Association (FSBA) welcomed practitioners to a packed-out conference in the Dublin Dispute Resolution Centre earlier this month. Attorney General Rossa Fanning SC made introductory remarks at the conference on 15 February 2024.

Legal academics at University College Dublin (UCD) have staged a durational reading of Bunreacht na hÉireann to reflect on the Constitution and spark conversation about potential changes to its text and society.