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Young solicitors were briefed on key planning and property law issues at a lively CPD event organised by the Dublin Solicitors' Bar Association (DBSA) Younger Members (YM) committee.

Jonny Hacking, associate at A&L Goodbody in Belfast, writes on recent fine notifications issued by the UK's data protection watchdog. In recent weeks you will have seen the high-profile press coverage of the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announcement of its first potential fines

Employment law solicitor Richard Grogan of Richard Grogan & Associates considers recent cases illustrating the different means of recourse for pregnancy-related dismissal. In case ADJ18062, being a case of a waitress and a restaurant, the Adjudication Officer quoted the case of O'Brien –v-

On 30 June 1827, the nephew of a landlord was shot dead in Rathcannon, County Tipperary. Twenty-five-year-old Richard Chadwick was a magistrate and a land agent for his uncle, and had evicted a number of tenants in the Rathcannon area. He had also started building a police barracks in Rathcannon, an

A man who accumulated a total of 47 convictions between October 2015 and March 2017 has lost his challenge against the decision of the Minister for Justice and Equality to make a removal order and a five-year exclusion order against him. Refusing to grant the orders of certiorari sought, Mr Justice

The Department of Social Protection and the Department of Public Expenditure could be liable for fines under the GDPR over confusion about who controls the database underpinning the Public Services Card (PSC). Privacy experts have cast doubt in the data-sharing agreement struck by the two department

Sinead Morgan, senior associate in the employment team at DWF in Dublin, sets out the key legal considerations for any company offering remote working to its employees. Remote working, flexible working or homeworking? Whatever term you choose to use the desire for, and drive towards remote working i

The Abhaile scheme to help people in home mortgage arrears will be extended for a further three years, Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan and Social Protection Minister Regina Doherty have announced. The scheme was set up in 2016 and has so far provided financial advice and negotiation support to ove

The Crown Prosecution Service is "in denial" about declining rape prosecutions and convictions, the victims' watchdog has told The Times. Recent figures from the CPS show that while recorded rapes have increased over the past six years to 58,657 in 2018, charges, prosecutions and convictions for the

Property lawyer Katharine Hardie has been appointed head of Pinsent Masons’ Scottish and Northern Ireland operations. Ms Hardie takes over the role of chair of Scotland and Northern Ireland from Richard Masters, 29 years to the day since she joined the firm as a trainee lawyer in 1990. Sh

EU law does not preclude a host provider such as Facebook from being ordered to remove identical and, in certain circumstances, equivalent comments previously declared to be illegal nor does it preclude such an injunction from producing effects worldwide – within the framework of the relevant

A Thai judge is recovering after shooting himself in an apparent suicide bid at the end of court proceedings in which he sharply criticised alleged interference with the judicial process. Judge Khanakorn Pianchana, 49, a senior judge at Yala Provincial Court in the south of Thailand, pulled out a pi

Dublin-based corporate law firm BHSM has announced the appointment of Richard Lee and Rob Gibbons as partners. Mr Lee, appointed as partner in the firm's employment & benefits team, has significant experience acting for employers and employees in contentious and non-contentious matters.

Ireland's top in-house legal counsel for 2019 have been named in a new list launched by The Legal 500 at the Dublin offices of Matheson.

A round-up of deals involving Irish law firms. Submit your deals to newsdesk@irishlegal.com. Matheson acted as Irish legal and tax counsel in connection with the $2 billion Juniper Receivables 2019-1 DAC securitisation of US auto contracts acquired by Ally Bank.