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Belfast firm Tughans has announced the appointment of Laura Connor and Dearbhla Lavery as associate solicitors in the firm's defence litigation team. Ms Connor will work for a wide variety of insurance clients on personal injury, commercial disputes and medical negligence claims.

Prison authorities cited the GDPR when refusing to tell a solicitor why his client had been placed in a special observation cell, The Irish Times reports. The decision to place the prisoner in the padded cell just before Christmas is currently subject to a judicial review before the High Court.

JMK Solicitors handled more personal injury cases in Northern Ireland than any other law firm for a fifth consecutive year. Figures obtained from the compensation recovery unit at the Department of Communities reveal that the Belfast- and Newry-based firm handled 1,544 cases registered in 2018, more

Four men have been given life sentences for the murder of a man who was shot in front of his three-year-old child in Bangor in 2017. Stating that the murder had “paramilitary overtones”, Judge Adrian Colton imposed minimum tariffs of between 15 and 16 years for the men who had pleaded gu

Lawyers Adrian Carroll, Eliona Gjecaj and Kieran Murphy have been appointed to serve on a new committee scrutinising Ireland's record on the rights of disabled people. The Disability Advisory Committee, made up of 11 members, is the first-ever statutory advisory committee in Ireland to support monit

The Government's Abhaile scheme to provide free financial and legal advice to mortgage holders is "delivering results", according to new reports. Nearly 11,700 individual borrowers (over 10,000 households) in mortgage arrears have received independent expert Abhaile financial advice and negotiation

A construction company that changed the terms of its loan agreements with IBRC, allowing for an expert to estimate the amount of profit to be evenly distributed, has lost its appeal to the Supreme Court. Finding that the agreement entered into in 2011 bound the company to accept the terms of agreeme

Austrian privacy campaigner Max Schrems has lodged complaints against eight online streaming services in relation to alleged "structural violations" of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Non-profit organisation NOYB (None Of Your Business), said it filed a complaint with Austria's D

Pinsent Masons has been recognised by a leading LGBT charity for its work towards marriage equality in Northern Ireland.

The collapse of the Northern Ireland Executive two years ago has held back efforts to improve gender diversity within the legal profession, barristers have told Irish Legal News. There have been no QC appointments in Northern Ireland in almost five years, and no appointments can currently take place

A woman who claims that she was under duress and undue influence when she acted as guarantor for loans taken by her son, has been granted an interlocutory injunction restraining receivers from selling, possessing, trespassing upon or otherwise dealing with the secured property. Finding that there wa

Barristers John Jordan SC and Alexander Owens SC have been nominated by the Government for appointment to the High Court. They will fill the vacancies created following the elevation of Ms Justice Caroline Costello and Ms Justice Isobel Kennedy to the Court of Appeal last November.

Personal injury lawyers have hit back at the CEO of Allianz Ireland after he said half of the 1,500 claims the insurer challenged in the Irish courts last year were "potentially fraudulent". Jody Cantillon, partner in the litigation department at Cantillons Solicitors, told Irish Legal News that the

Michelle Cronin, solicitor at Comyn Kelleher Tobin (CKT), sets out the significance of the newly-commenced Domestic Violence Act 2018. The Domestic Violence Act 2018 came into effect on 1st January 2019 and has been welcomed by those who assist victims of domestic violence.

The PSNI will publish a formal public policy on its retention of biometric data after settling a case brought by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC). The NIHRC issued judicial review proceedings against the PSNI in December 2017 on behalf of an individual who wanted them to erase fi