Ukraine

Irish lawyer Aonghus Kelly has been appointed to lead an EU unit helping the Ukrainian authorities to investigate and prosecute international crimes committed during the ongoing war. Mr Kelly has been working in Kyiv with the EU Advisory Mission Ukraine (EUAM) since September 2022, initially on sabb

Ukrainian refugees arriving in Ireland from early next year will receive drastically less in social welfare payments and have reduced access to State accommodation, the government has announced. The changes, which will not affect those currently in State accommodation, will bring Ireland's treatment

The Court of Appeal has determined in an appeal brought by a Russian aircraft insurer that the High Court did not err in concluding that choice of law and jurisdiction clauses in the insurance documentation prevailed, and that the forum conveniens for the proceedings was Ireland. Delivering judgment

An energy lawyer has returned to Ukraine's largest law firm following a 14-month secondment at Arthur Cox. Marta Halabala, counsel at Asters, spent the secondment advising leading international energy companies on various legal issues related to the development and construction of wind farms, servic

Irish Rule of Law International (IRLI), an all-island not-for-profit Irish organisation established to promote the rule of law in resource-restrained countries, hosted its first Ukrainian judicial exchange in Dublin and Belfast during the last week of October, in collaboration with European Union A

Ukrainian lawyer Vasyl Selifonov provides an update on progress towards an International Compensation Mechanism to deal with claims against Russia for damage caused by its invasion of Ukraine. As is well-known, on 24 February 2022, the Russian Federation launched a full-scale military invasion into

The legal community's collaborative initiative to support Ukrainian refugees in Ireland has been recognised at the Chambers Ireland Sustainable Business Impact Awards 2023. Matheson and A&L Goodbody led the collaborative effort, which involved six other law firms — Arthur Cox, William Fry,

Russia's Wagner Group — the private military company whose leader Yevgeny Prigozhin led an abortive rebellion against Vladimir Putin before being killed in a plane crash last month — is to be proscribed in the UK as a terrorist organisation. Home Secretary Suella Braverman has today laid

Working in partnership with Ukraine’s Constitutional Court, the University of Birmingham and Ivan Franko National University, Lviv (IFNUL) have defined the first 1,000 terms in a unique handbook for scientists, human rights defenders, and legal experts further developing the country as a const

The UK government has granted a general licence to enable lawyers to provide legal advice to non-UK individuals and businesses in relation to their compliance with international sanctions on Russia, without breaching UK sanctions regulations themselves, writes Scottish lawyer Stacy Keen. UK Russian

An appeal hearing at a Moscow court yesterday which upheld the 13-year sentence imposed on Maksym Butkevych, a Ukrainian human rights defender, is a grave miscarriage of justice, Amnesty International said. The decision to imprison him for 13 years was taken by the so-called supreme court in Russian

The International Bar Association (IBA) and the Ukrainian Bar Association (UBA) have joined forces to monitor war crime trials in courts in Kyiv and Kharkiv Oblasts from July until the end of September 2023. The monitoring will be delivered as part of the United States Agency for International Devel

Anna Bazarchina BL has been appointed as the Irish representative of the Ukrainian National Bar Association (UNBA). Ms Bazarchina is lead of the Association of Ukrainian Lawyers of Ireland (AULI) and chair of the Ukraine Ireland Legal Alliance.

Ukrainian lawyers have expressed optimism that Ireland will follow England and Wales in introducing a streamlined process to allow them to qualify and practise as lawyers in the State. The Ukrainian National Bar Association (UNBA) said the matter is currently being considered by the Department of Ju

The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, Russia's commissioner for children’s rights, over the deportation of Ukrainian children. ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan KC said in a statement that the Pre-Trial Chamber "has confirmed that there