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of further offers from other interested parties. The Court heard that in the end, Mr Mellon did not actually submit a tender – Justice Humphreys said that it was likely that this was because he did not in fact have the funds immediately available. Thus, Justice Humphreys stated that “it was rea

Theresa Cahill, president of JCI Dublin Junior Chamber International (JCI) Dublin is seeking nominations for its The Outstanding Young People (TOYP) of the year awards.

The Minister for Justice and Law Reform has successfully appealed an Order of the High Court, which quashed the Minister’s decision to affirm an Armenian national’s deportation order. Delivering the judgment of the three-judge Court of Appeal, Mr Justice Michael Peart found that the trial judge

Judge Michael Reilly A report on healthcare in Irish prisons, produced by the late Inspector of Prisons, Judge Michael Reilly, has been published.

Judge Corinne Philpott QC Key figures in Northern Ireland's legal profession have proposed that the Institute of Professional Legal Studies should create a graduate prize in the name of the late Judge Corinne Philpott QC.

A woman who was found guilty of the murder of her husband has lost an appeal against the finding that her certificate of conviction for the murder was admissible as evidence to preclude her from inheriting his estate. The woman argued that the certificate was hearsay and could therefore not be admit

Briony Clarke A 31-year-old woman has become the UK's youngest ever female judge just 16 years after beginning her law career, The Telegraph reports.

https://vimeo.com/207645384 Leona Rankin, a solicitor in Carson McDowell's employment team, has been given a prestigious award by the Prime Minister for her work to support people living with sarcoma in Northern Ireland.

The decision of the Department for the Economy to publish the names of “natural persons” in receipt of Renewal Heat Incentive Scheme funding has been quashed by an order of certiorari, after the High Court found that the decision was in breach of the Data Protection Act 1998. The Department is,

The directors of a family business in Limerick were given three year suspended sentences when they were found to have deliberately made false tax returns, resulting in an estimated €0.25m loss to the Revenue. The Director of Public Prosecutions appealed contending that the fully suspended sentence

Belfast firm Carson McDowell has created the first information law team in Northern Ireland in a response to an increasing demand for work in the sector. With new laws around data protection coming into effect next year, a number of partners from the firm’s healthcare, environmental, commercial an

The Director of Public Prosecutions has lost an appeal against the “unduly lenient” sentencing of a woman who was given a suspended sentence for violently biting off 9 square centimetres of another woman’s bottom lip. Refusing to alter the sentence, Mr Justice Edwards was satisfied that the wo

A 24 year old man who was sentenced to two years and six months' imprisonment for pouring boiling water over his pregnant girlfriend, causing her to spend ten days in hospital needing skin graft surgery, has had his custodial sentence increased to four years on appeal. Delivering the judgment of the

A company that was ordered to pay a fine of €125,000 for failing to ensure the safety of employees after an accident resulted in the death of a 28-year-old man has been ordered to pay a fine of €1 million after the Director of Public Prosecutions appealed the original sentence. Delivering the ju

Michael Byrne Matheson's Michael Byrne, Anne-Marie Bohan and Aoife Kelly-Desmond outline the details of the GDPR regime ahead of its introduction next year.