Murlands Solicitors has announced the appointment of Brenda Allen and Alanna McCall as partners in the firm. Ms Allen and Ms McCall join the existing partnership of Alan Reid, Aidan Donnelly, John O'Prey, Sarah Shannon and Ronnie Lowry.

Queen’s University human rights law professor Colin Harvey has been appointed vice-chair of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights scientific committee. Professor Harvey is a fellow of the Queen's Institute for Peace, Security and Justice, an associate fellow of the Institute of Iris

The Northern Ireland justice minister, Naomi Long, and health minister, Robbie Butler, have launched a joint review into the legal framework behind a trail of the facts following the Eleanor Donaldson case. Mrs Donaldson was charged with aiding and abetting her husband, former DUP leader, Jeffrey Do

A&L Goodbody (ALG) has welcomed nine new trainee solicitors and one Law Degree Apprentice to its Belfast office, as the firm continues to invest in the development of the next generation of legal talent in Northern Ireland. The new recruits will undertake structured development programmes combin

UCD Sutherland School of Law has appointed Dr Katie Nolan as lecturer and assistant professor in law and technology.

  Queens University Professor Anne-Marie McAlinden, UCD Professor Emeritus Marie Keenan and Dr James Gallen of Dublin City University have received the European Society of Criminology / Association Europeenne de Criminologie book prize for the book they co-authored Transforming Justice Res

An Coimisiún Toghcháin has called for a major push to increase voter registration for the new 6-seat Seanad Higher Education constituency after finding that just 71,850 people are currently registered to vote from a potential eligible electorate estimated at between 800,000 and one mi

Professor Kathryn McNeilly of QUB School of Law has been elected as a fellow to the Academy of Social Sciences Professor McNeilly’s research intersects the areas of public international law, international human rights law and international legal theory, with recent research leading development

When Majella Walsh was announced as the recipient of the Munster Regional Sole Practitioner of the Year award at the LEAP Irish Law Awards last month, she says her first reaction was one of some surprise. Those who know her professionally would not have been startled at the news. Noted by clients fo

Many parents have long had ambitions for their children to pursue careers in medicine or law, professions that are perceived as being synonymous with prestige, intellectual challenge and public service. John Magee, a partner at DLA Piper in Dublin, was seriously considering a career in medicine unti

For solicitors who started their career just before the financial crisis of 2008 struck, the timing was both daunting and defining. Newly qualified lawyers were entering a profession gripped by uncertainty in an Ireland faced by economic turbulence. However, there emerged from that singular event a

For Anne-Marie Linehan, the past couple of years at J.W. O'Donovan LLP have resembled the proverbial situation when three buses arrive at the same time. First, in 2024 and after 93 years the firm relocated to new premises in Cork's South Mall, reflecting its ongoing commitment to supporting clients