Joan McCoy of Employee Ownership Ireland urges solicitors in Northern Ireland to highlight the continued benefits of employee ownership in spite of UK tax changes. Last month, Employee Ownership Association held its annual conference in Telford. Although the event offered valuable insights and into

Bank of Ireland has been fined £2,000 for breaches of Northern Ireland employment equality legislation. The fine was imposed by Northern Ireland's High Court following a prosecution by the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland.

Northern Ireland firm Carson McDowell is to be led by Orlagh O'Neill and Declan Magee from next year. Ms O'Neill will succeed Roger McMillan as managing partner and Mr Magee will succeed Neasa Quigley as senior partner with effect from 1 May 2026.

Lawyers acting for victims of the so-called "Glenanne gang" say they disagree with a report's conclusion that collusion between loyalist paramilitaries and state actors was not systemic. Yesterday's final report from the Operation Kenova investigation into Stakeknife also included the high-level fin

Research projects on prisoner experiences and AI-assisted judicial decision-making at Trinity College Dublin have secured prestigious EU funding grants worth up to €2 million over five years. Professor Mary Rogan and Dr Brian Barry in the School of Law are among three Trinity researchers who ha

Northern Ireland's family courts should apply a "presumption against contact" in cases involving domestic violence and abuse, a report has recommended.

A new collection of papers presented at the 25th British Legal History Conference at Queen's University Belfast has been published on an open access basis. Law and Constitutional Change brings together some of the best papers presented at the conference, which examined the role that law plays when c

Professor Kim Lane Scheppele has been appointed as visiting full professor at UCD Sutherland School of Law. Professor Scheppele is the Laurance S Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Princeton University, where her work focuses on the rise and fall of constitutional democr

October is European Cybersecurity Month (ECSM), the EU's annual campaign dedicated to promoting cybersecurity among its citizens and organisations, and to providing current online security information. Ironically, it has coincided with Amazon Web Services (AWS) experiencing a recent major outage in

The view from Andrew McGahey’s home office south of Navan in Co Meath is an idyllic one. The vista of tranquillity that takes in the Hill of Tara and the River Boyne ends here, though — the EMEA managing partner of Kennedys Law LLP is responsible for seven offices, where daily life is di

The quest for knowledge has advanced beyond imagination in the millennia since Plato and Aristotle first proposed their theories of epistemology. For legal firms at the leading edge of meeting today’s exacting demands, ‘knowledge’ now involves a multitude of practical applications,

A solicitor who was forced out of her home by a relentless campaign of criminal harassment has urged legal professionals to break the “taboo” of speaking out about abuse. Emma Lyons, who runs a family and criminal law practice in west Belfast, joined the Law Society of Northern Ireland&r