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Stuart Gilhooly, president of the Law Society The Law Society of Ireland has said lawyers have been "vindicated" by a new report on insurance costs.

TD Clare Daly Commercial-scale drug dealing convictions have halved in recent years, The Irish Times reports.

Health Minister Simon Harris A private member's bill to make cannabis available for medicinal purposes has passed the second stage in the Dáil.

Claire Rowe UK firm Shoosmiths has announced it is expanding into Northern Ireland through a merger with Belfast firm McManus Kearney.

The widow of a man who died in 2003 must be removed as the administratrix of his estate and appoint a firm of professional trustees in her place, the High Court has ruled. Two daughters of the deceased brought the case to replace their mother as administratrix due to a number of inconsistencies in t

The Bar of Northern Ireland has urged caution in pursuing transformative civil justice reforms proposed by Lord Justice Gillen, calling for more evidence and reassurances on funding. It its 84-page response to Lord Gillen's draft report, it states: "We note the acknowledgement that the report is 'be

The Court of Appeal has dismissed a couple’s challenge to the validity of a guarantee in regards to which the High Court granted Ulsterbank a summary judgment for €126,000. Mr Justice George Birmingham, with whom Mr Justice Michael Peart agreed, found that neither the husband or wife had an argu

The number of bankruptcies in Ireland increased last year, according to the Insolvency Service of Ireland (ISI)'s latest annual report. According to the report, there were 479 bankruptcies in 2015 - up seven per cent from 448 in 2014.

EU law precludes national legislation that prescribes general and indiscriminate retention of data except in the fight against serious crime, the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled. In Case C-698/15, Mr Tom Watson, Mr Peter Brice and Mr Geoffrey Lewis brought actions challenging the UK

A mother-of-four, who was refused bereavement benefits upon the death of her cohabiting partner of 23 years, has had her application for judicial review dismissed by the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal. The Court overturned the decision of the the High Court, in which Justice Treacy found that the

Martha Spurrier, director of Liberty Liberty is launching a legal challenge to the UK's Investigatory Powers Act – legislation that allows the state to monitor everybody’s web history and email, text and phone records, and hack computers, phones and tablets on an industrial scale.

The European Commission has proposed legislation to bring rules for all electronic communication providers in line with the ePrivacy Directive and the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). A key proposal in the Regulation on Privacy and Electronic Communications extends privacy rules to ne

Barrister Kieron Wood has turned what might have been a footnote of history into a highly readable account of the long-running affair between the Allied commander General Dwight D Eisenhower and his West Cork-born chauffeuse Kay Summersby (née MacCarthy-Morrogh). It may seem frivolous and dis

Facebook has succeeded in its appeal against an award of £20,000 in compensation, which the High Court held it was liable to pay to a convicted sex offender for misuse of private information. In finding that Facebook could only be held liable for a limited 10-day period in which information about t

Calls to the LawCare helpline in 2016 from lawyers in the UK and Ireland rose by 12 per cent compared with 2015. The top two most common reasons for calls remain the same, with stress at 38 per cent of calls (37 per cent in 2015) and depression at 12 per cent (11 per cent).