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More insurance fraudsters need to be prosecuted to deter others from pursuing exaggerated and fraudulent claims, a partner at Ronan Daly Jermyn has said. Over 200 insurance professionals attended the firm's annual insurance conference in Dublin, which heard from keynote speakers including Detective

A man who challenged his dismissal by an NHS trust for stalking and harassment, on the basis it had availed itself of private material including WhatsApp data, has had his application unanimously declared inadmissible by the European Court of Human Rights. The case concerned George Garamukanwa&rsquo

American mediation expert Tim Hicks will discuss his new book, which explores te neuroscience underpinning conflict and communication, at a private Mediators' Institute of Ireland (MII) event next week. Mr Hicks is a conflict resolution professional in private practice in Eugene, Oregon, having work

International law firm DAC Beachcroft is celebrating its tenth anniversary in Dublin with a special event for clients and colleagues later this month. The event at The Royal Hibernian Academy will mark the firm's growth from just one Dublin-based lawyer in 2009 to an office of over 60 colleagues, wi

Dundalk firm Catherine Allison & Company Solicitors has announced the appointment of Emma Fearon as a litigation solicitor. Ms Fearon was educated in Northern Ireland and obtained an LLB from Trinity College Dublin, before going on to study for her legal practising certificate at the College of

The Chief Justice of Ireland, Mr Justice Frank Clarke, has been announced as the key speaker at the next Lawyers Against Homelessness (LAH) charity CPD event. The event on Thursday 27 June will be the sixth CPD conference organised by the group, founded in late 2017 as a collaborative effort of barr

A former UK Supreme Court judge has criticised the "mission creep" of the European Convention on Human Rights and suggested that the UK could be forced to withdraw from the nearly 70-year-old convention. Lord Sumption, 70, said that "intensely political questions" had been reclassified by the ECHR a

According to Advocate General Szpunar, Facebook can be ordered to seek and identify all comments identical to a defamatory comment that has been found to be illegal, and equivalent comments in so far as the latter originate from the same user. In the present case, the EU law relied on does not regul

A detective found guilty of harassing a State solicitor by sending abusive letters and emails has lost an appeal against her conviction. Eve Doherty, 50, was found guilty by a jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of harassing State solicitor Elizabeth Howlin between September 2011 and March 2013. M

A woman who tried to process a bogus personal injury claim because she needed money to cover the costs of her and her husband's funerals has been given a three-year suspended jail sentence. Judge Pauline Codd, sitting in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, said fraudulent claims lead to increased insuran

A man convicted of possessing explosives and making hoax bomb threats has failed in an appeal against his conviction which focused on his Irish language rights during the trial. Lawyers for Dónal Billings, 67, whose trial at the non-jury Special Criminal Court was heard in both Irish and Engl

The Law Society of Ireland has helped nearly 100 solicitors return to work after an extended period of leave in the past three years. A total of 93 solicitors from across the country have completed the Returners Programme, which the Law Society has run four times since 2016.

The number of cybercrime prosecutions in the UK represents less than one per cent of reported incidents, despite their increase in the past year. The latest data show there were 17,900 reported cases of computer hacking in 2018, up 74 per cent from 13,200 in 2017. The most commonly reported types we

A High Court test case which would have significantly clarified the law around debt-for-equity personal insolvency arrangements has been struck out on a technicality. The case was brought by Start Mortgages against a personal insolvency arrangement approved in Trim Circuit Court, which saw a man's m

Barristers heard from cervical cancer patient Vicky Phelan and rape survivor Leona O'Callaghan at a landmark conference on the experience of plaintiffs and victims in pursuit of access to justice through the legal system in Ireland. The Bar of Ireland's chairman's conference, "Laws & Effect", to