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With less than three weeks to go, the Law Society is encouraging all legal professionals to continue to register for Calcutta Run charity partners, Dublin Simon Community and the HOPE Foundation.
Two Irish firms, Crowley Millar Solicitors LLP and J R Sweeney LLP, are to merge their businesses with effect from tomorrow (1 December). The merger will create a practice with ten partners, 20 ...
Qualified barrister Louise O’Donnell has been appointed as chair of the Labour Court after a Public Appointments Service open competition. O’Donnell, a former trade union official, has previously sat ...
A review of the effectiveness of legislation known as ‘Coco’s Law', introduced in 2021, has described the early indications as “positive”. The law criminalises the sharing of, or threatening to share, ...
Dillon Eustace has appointed Shane Harron as a partner in its Dublin-based teams that are responsible for restructuring and insolvency, and commercial litigation. Harron has more than 12 years’ ...
The National Development Finance Agency (NDFA) has held a market launch for the Family Courts project at Hammond Lane in Dublin, which will be delivered by public-private partnership (PPP). At the ...
Colourful veteran journalist Ray Managh is a highly respected court reporter of 65 years’ standing. He will be 82 on his next birthday. His news career began aged 17, on the Tyrone Constitution, the ...
A solicitor who did not have professional-indemnity insurance is facing misconduct allegations in connection with his work for an immigration advisory firm that did not deliver services for which it ...
The Consumer Rights Bill has got the go-ahead for publication and will consolidate and modernise consumer law and give new protections for digital goods and services. Tánaiste and Minister for ...
The International Bar Association (IBA) is asking women in the legal profession to take part in an anonymous survey aimed at gathering information about women’s experience in law. The survey is open ...
Ireland’s EU commissioner-designate Michael McGrath has told MEPs that the promotion of the rule of law across the EU would be “an absolute priority” for him. The former finance minister, who has been ...
Lawyers at RDJ say that a recent Dublin District Court decision has sparked considerable discussion about the liability of e-bike users involved in collisions. The case, which was reported in the ...