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The newly-elected Bar Council has taken effect, with Seán Guerin SC taking over the role of chairperson from Sara Phelan SC. Mr Guerin is joined by Darren Lehane SC as vice chair and Séamus Clarke SC as treasurer, while the 25-strong Council also includes eight new first-time members:

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Global law firm Dentons has recruited previously London-based lawyers Garrett Hayes and Louise Hodnett as partners in its Irish corporate team in Dublin. Mr Hayes comes from McDermott Will & Emery and previously was a partner of Paul Hastings London for more than 10 years. He has spent his caree

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Arthur Cox has appointed four associates and six new trainees in Northern Ireland. The new associates are Reuben Kane and Ruth McIlwaine in the corporate and commercial department, with Molly Reid taking up the role in banking and finance and Emiko Seawright joining dispute resolution.

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Belfast-based Paschal O'Hare Personal Injury Solicitors has welcomed Conor Eastwood to the firm as a paralegal. Mr Eastwood is a recent graduate of the University of Galway School of Law and has a strong interest in personal injury law, particularly in the areas of workplace injury and medical negli

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DLA Piper has appointed Elizabeth Bradley as a partner in the firm's Dublin-based finance practice group with effect from January 2025. Ms Bradley joins from the Maples Group, where she was a partner in the firm's banking and finance team for over 10 years.

Northern Ireland

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A standalone hate crime bill will not be brought forward in Northern Ireland despite a recommendation from a judge-led review. Justice minister Naomi Long yesterday told MLAs that there was "insufficient time and resource" to introduce a standalone bill, but committed to making significant reforms t

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Arthur Cox has appointed four associates and six new trainees in Northern Ireland. The new associates are Reuben Kane and Ruth McIlwaine in the corporate and commercial department, with Molly Reid taking up the role in banking and finance and Emiko Seawright joining dispute resolution.

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The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), which investigates potential miscarriages of justice in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, has launched an online library of every case it has sent back to the courts since 1997. The CCRC Case Library allows users to search, filter, and read brief summa

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Professor Niamh Moloney, an expert in financial markets law, has been appointed to the board of Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland. The new competitive research and innovation funding agency amalgamates and builds on the activities and functions of the Irish Research Council (IRC) and S

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Law student Olivia Feron is attending the One Young World 2024 Summit in Montreal, Canada this September as a returning One Young World Global Ambassador. Ms Feron, a third year student at Queen's University Belfast School of Law and co-chair of the Women in Law Society, is heading to Montreal after

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Talking with Joan Crawford, the chief executive of the Legal Aid Board, is a refreshing engagement with positivity. It’s an approach she clearly brings to the office as well as to her many sporting and social interests. The media frequently highlights the challenges facing the legal aid sector

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Pro bono work has been "mainstreamed into the Irish legal culture" — but that was not the case until relatively recently, FLAC chief executive Eilis Barry points out. When Ms Barry joined the legal charity FLAC in 2016, Éamonn Conlon SC, then a partner in A&L Goodbody LLP, had just

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At the beginning of this month, 285 people seeking international protection were moved from a makeshift campsite outside the International Protection Office (IPO) in Dublin’s Mount Street. Weeks later, 55 asylum seekers set up camp along the Grand Canal just hours after another tent clearance.

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The adoption this week of the UK’s controversial Safety of Rwanda Bill generated ripples (or rather waves) of concern that reached far beyond Britain’s shores. One of those most concerned was Michael O’Flaherty, the Irish human rights lawyer who has just been appointed Council of E