An expert in animal welfare law has been appointed to a new advisory group tasked with reviewing dog breeding regulations in Northern Ireland. Vanessa Barnes, a non-practising English solicitor, will join veterinary surgeon Susan Cunningham on the new group, chaired by animal behaviour and welfare e

Proposals to divert more "low-level offences", including motoring offences, away from the Northern Ireland courts have been put out for consultation. The Department of Justice is seeking views on whether the PSNI and PPS should be given additional powers to deal with a range of offences outside the

The prosecution and conviction of a nurse has highlighted a "major gap" in the legal and regulatory framework governing independent nursing practice in Northern Ireland, her lawyer has said. Nichola Hawes, a registered nurse independent prescriber, was fined £8,000 in Downpatrick Crown Court y

A joint statement from the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland has raised concerns over the UK government's welfare reform plans. The two commissions are responsible for monitoring the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons

Former president Mary Robinson has been awarded an honorary doctorate of laws by the University of Strathclyde in Scotland.

Four law students have completed the Bar of Ireland's inaugural internship programme. Greta Baronaite from ATU Letterkenny, Alvena Sharma from Trinity College Dublin, Lee Mac Cuinneagain from the University of Limerick and Michael White from University College Dublin took part in the two-week initia

A Kurdish woman who came to Northern Ireland as a child fleeing the Syrian civil war has graduated with a law degree from Ulster University.

Law students from Dublin City University, Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin have been elected to the national board of the European Law Students’ Association (ELSA) Ireland.

Paddy Kelly’s energetic leadership of the Children’s Law Centre (CLC) in Northern Ireland has seen it assume a pivotal role in advancing the rights and best interests of children and young people. When Ms Kelly, its founder and CEO, steps down at the end of this month, the most important

Ailish Finnerty has had only had some six weeks to become accustomed to her role as the new chair at Arthur Cox. She has, though, an air of calm assurance — the consequence of her history with the firm, one that stretches back to her becoming a trainee there after taking a BCL and LLM at UCC a

Wherever there is an Irish diaspora — and where is there not? — there will be St Patrick’s Day celebrations. This was the case earlier this month at the Hyatt Regency hotel in London when the London Irish Lawyers Association (LILA) gathered for its third annual St Patrick’s D

Even by the standards of the bewilderingly swift advances in the social media arena, TikTok is a phenomenon. Launched in 2016, the app began its dizzying ascent to become a giant with more than 1.04 billion monthly active users, a scale of growth that took Instagram and Facebook almost a decade to a