Belfast-based Phoenix Law is acting for punk-rap duo Bob Vylan in Irish defamation proceedings brought against RTÉ over its coverage of their performance at Glastonbury. Lead singer Pascal Robinson-Foster, known as Bobby Vylan, was accused in an RTÉ News broadcast of leading antisemiti

The Law Society of Northern Ireland has marked Human Rights Day by uniting with its counterparts across the UK to call for urgent ratification of a new treaty designed to protect lawyers. The Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of the Profession of Lawyer provides a framework to protect

Northern Ireland firm Cleaver Fulton Rankin has announced five promotions, welcoming two new directors, one new associate director and two senior solicitors. Rachael Gamble and Stuart Nevin, both from the dispute resolution department, have been promoted to director, bringing the firm’s total

The Law Society of Northern Ireland has named PIPS Suicide Prevention Ireland as its 2026 charity of the year. A non-government-funded organisation, PIPS Charity provides life-saving counselling and crisis support to individuals and families affected by suicide and poor mental health across Northern

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