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Gateley Legal Northern Ireland has appointed three new trainee solicitors, bringing the total number of trainees at its Belfast office to seven. Kate Adair, Paul Kerr and Annabel Barton, who were previously paralegals with the firm, will now be studying at the Institute of Professional Legal Studies

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Anne-Marie Linehan, partner at J.W. O'Donovan Solicitors, has been appointed to the board of Cork Chamber. Ms Linehan, who has been an active member within the Chamber for a number of years, was co-opted onto the board alongside two others following the business body's recent AGM.

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Energy lawyer Alan Bissett has been reappointed to the board of Londonderry Port and Harbour Commissioners (LPHC) for a second term. Mr Bissett is a senior utilities lawyer and has advised on a wide range of corporate and commercial matters at Belfast and London firms. He is dual-qualified as a soli

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Global law firm Kennedys has promoted Shanna Dunne and Michael Prior to legal director in its Dublin office, while welcoming new senior associate Martha Moylan. Ms Dunne is now a legal director in the firm's healthcare and life sciences team, specialising in defending medical negligence claims, cata

Northern Ireland

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The UK government has been urged to repeal the immunity provisions of its controversial new legacy law by the body responsible for enforcing decisions of the European Court of Human Rights. The Council of Europe committee of ministers this week called for changes to the Northern Ireland Troubles (Le

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Staff at Northern Ireland firm Cleaver Fulton Rankin took part in celebrations last week to mark the firm's 130th year in business. The celebration at The National, Belfast last Friday night saw special prizes on offer to team members from The Bullitt, The Clayton Hotel, The Merchant Hotel, The Spir

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Gateley Legal Northern Ireland has appointed three new trainee solicitors, bringing the total number of trainees at its Belfast office to seven. Kate Adair, Paul Kerr and Annabel Barton, who were previously paralegals with the firm, will now be studying at the Institute of Professional Legal Studies

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Lawyers have been invited to "speak truth to power" at a conference called by the Law Society of Northern Ireland in response to the UK government's controversial new legacy law. Sir Declan Morgan, the former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland who has been appointed to lead the new Independent C

Universities

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Law student Alicia Joy O'Sullivan has been named as one of two UN youth delegates for Ireland. Ms O'Sullivan is a University College Cork (UCC) law student, advocate and Quercus scholar from Skibbereen, West Cork. She was the UCC Students’ Union environmental and sustainability officer in 2020

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Ulster University School of Law has welcomed new law lecturers Dr Anna Pathe-Smith, Dr Connor McBain, Dr Katie Nolan, Sasha Gillespie and Dr Siobhán Buckley. Dr Pathe-Smith has joined from Royal Holloway, University of London, where she completed her PhD research examining the legal conceptua

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Award-winning journalist Sally Hayden has joined UCD Sutherland School of Law as an adjunct professor. Ms Hayden has reported extensively on issues related to migration, conflict, human rights and humanitarian crises for many of the world's leading news publishers.

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Is artificial intelligence (AI) an unprecedented opportunity or an existential threat to humanity? Should we revel in its seemingly limitless possibilities, or should there be a global pause called on its development? And, importantly, how will it impact businesses in every sector? These are among t

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Many of us have found that our priorities in life have changed recently, not least as a result of the pandemic and its consequences. But Lucy Boyle, a partner at Tormeys Solicitors LLP in Athlone who specialises in personal injury litigation and medical negligence, has long been acutely aware of the

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When former League of Ireland footballer Michael Sheehan was awarded €505,000 in damages at the High Court last month, it was an unusual case on many levels. Mr Sheehan claimed that he suffered injuries after he was pepper-sprayed and assaulted by members of An Garda Síochána. He

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It’s not the conventional opening to an Irish Legal News interview. Aonghus Kelly is speaking via Zoom from Kyiv and has recently emerged from the air raid shelter beneath his building. “I’m sitting in my kitchen and just got out of the shelter a little while ago as we’ve had