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The managing partner of Dublin firm Reddy Charlton has been awarded a prestigious Swedish order of chivalry for his work.

Mark O'Sullivan Matheson has been named the best International Firm in the Americas at the International Tax Review’s 12th annual Americas Tax Awards.

Madden & Finucane Solicitors has congratulated Pól Murphy on receiving the Pat Finucane Aisling Bursary this year.

When a financial institution grants a loan denominated in a foreign currency, it must provide the borrower with sufficient information to enable him to take a prudent and well-informed decision, the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled. In 2007 and 2008, Ms Ruxandra Paula Andriciuc and o

A digital scrapbook company is facing a class action lawsuit from people who say it violated their privacy by collecting their face scans without consent. Shutterfly's motion to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing that state laws controlling the collection and use of biometric data were not relevant to the

Irish high tech SMEs raised a record €499 million in the first half of 2017, according to the Irish Venture Capital Association VenturePulse survey published today in association with law firm William Fry. The figure represents a three per cent increase on the first half of 2016, itself a record y

Prosecutors investigating the discovery of around €100,000 blocking toilets in Geneva's financial district have said there is no immediate reason to assume the high-denomination banknotes are "dirty money". The first blockage was reported at a UBS, followed days later by three nearby bistros who f

A Malaysian woman who moved to Ireland with her daughter, an Irish citizen, and had her application for emergency homeless accommodation refused by Wicklow County Council has had her application for judicial review dismissed by the High Court. Finding that the Council’s decision was not ultra vire

Darragh Mackin Irish citizen Ibrahim Halawa has been acquitted in Cairo after four years of pre-trial detention and a major international campaign for his release.

A number of lawyers suing the State over "slopping out" have said the Government should consider establishing a redress scheme. Three solicitors spoke to The Irish Times in the wake of a landmark High Court decision that Mountjoy Prison's slopping out policy violated a prisoner's right to privacy.

Killian Keogh Dublin firm O'Connor Solicitors has announced the appointment of Killian Keogh as a solicitor in the firm's conveyancing team.

Limerick firm Keating Connolly Sellors has applied for the appointment of a receiver over the €150,000 pension pot of a former employee who embezzled hundreds of thousands of euros from the firm. Garry Carroll was jailed for three years after pleading guilty in 2012 to more than 30 charges of thef

The Irish courts are set to hear compensation claims for the first time from women facing complications from vaginal mesh implants. Legal action has already been brought in the US, UK and Australia by women who blame the device, used to treat pelvic organ prolapse or stress incontinence after pregna

A judge has warned that Northern Ireland's criminal justice system could crack under the volume of cases involving mental health issues. Judge Barney McElholm, sitting in Londonderry Magistrates' Court, said that "nobody seemed to be doing anything" about a lack of mental health services in the regi

Advocate General Sharpston A collective redundancy does not always qualify as an “exceptional case” permitting the dismissal of a pregnant worker, according to Advocate General Sharpston.