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LEAP, the market-leading cloud-based legal software provider, has launched LEAP Leads, providing law firms with direct access to high-quality, real-time legal enquiries from prospective clients actively seeking legal services.

The High Court has refused to grant an injunction to restrain the auction of a “buy to let” property notwithstanding that the receiver did not appear to have a power of sale qua receiver. Delivering judgment for the High Court, Mr Justice Conor Dignam found that the while the adequacy of

A man who convinced thousands of followers that he was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ has been imprisoned in Russia. Sergei Torop, a former traffic cop, founded the "Church of the Last Testament" in 1991 and recruited thousands of members in Siberia.

A retrospective extension to planning permissions which would otherwise expire as a result of delays caused by judicial reviews is set to be enacted this month. The Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025 will be published this week following its announcement in May, with a view to its enactm

Mason Hayes & Curran has welcomed its second group of summer interns for 2025.

The Financial Services Bar Association (FSBA) put the focus on advocacy and strategy in financial services disputes at its recent annual conference.

An obituary for the late Northern Ireland prosecutor Ronald Appleton KC has been published by The Telegraph. Mr Appleton was a senior Crown prosecutor for 22 years until 1999, overseeing a number of high-profile Troubles cases.

Nearly a third of Irish financial services firm are not yet prepared to implement the Central Bank's revised Consumer Protection Code, a survey by Mason Hayes & Curran suggests. The business law firm surveyed over 330 industry professionals at a recent webinar ahead of the revised code coming in

As the healthcare and life sciences sector adapts to rapid innovation and increasing regulation, William Fry lawyers Rachel Hayes, Susan Walsh and Louisa Muldowney explore two recent developments worth noting: DPIAs in clinical trials and high-risk AI classification. The healthcare and life sciences

DWF has appointed Mary Smith, the president of the Insurance Institute of Dublin, as a new insurance partner in Ireland. Ms Smith joins the team with over 15 years’ experience in insurance and construction law and brings significant expertise in professional indemnity claims across Ireland and

A 92-year-old man has been found guilty of the rape and murder of a 75-year-old widow in 1967 in what is believed to be the longest-running cold case ever solved in the UK. Ryland Headley, aged 34 at the time, broke into the home of Louisa Dunne in Bristol in June 1967 and attacked her. Her body was

A Kurdish woman who came to Northern Ireland as a child fleeing the Syrian civil war has graduated with a law degree from Ulster University.

The High Court has dismissed a claim by the former employee of a racehorse trainer who injured his back at work, finding that liability could not be established simply because the incident happened on the trainer’s premises and/or while the appellant was working for him. Delivering judgment fo

DLA Piper has appointed two new legal directors and four new senior associates in Ireland. New legal director Oisín Mulvihill specialises in finance, advising on a range of cross-border and domestic financing matters, with a particular focus on securitisation, structured finance and other deb

A viral video clip has captured the moment a man joined a remote court hearing while using the toilet. Footage of the man clearly sitting on a toilet seat and making full use of the facilities was broadcast to the public via the YouTube stream from Gujarat High Court in India.