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Two Newry firms, Luke Curran & Co Solicitors and Casey & Casey Solicitors, have merged.

Lawyers Against Homelessness will host its 2024 Christmas CPD seminar on Thursday 28 November 2024. This will be the 14th event organised by the legal initiative since 2017, in the process raising over €417,000 for the Capuchin Day Centre.

Barristers appearing in the most serious criminal cases in Northern Ireland are effectively being asked to do twice the work for half the pay they were getting two decades ago, the chairperson of the Bar of Northern Ireland has told Irish Legal News. Donal Lunny KC, who took up office in September,

Retired High Court judge Mr Justice Robert Eagar has passed away. A graduate of University College Dublin, he qualified as a solicitor in 1978 and joined Garrett Sheehan and Partners in 1984.

An octogenarian who was attacked with a machete after knocking on the wrong door by mistake managed to fend off his attacker with a pair of nunchucks. The would-be victim told police that he knocked on the door in Youngstown, Ohio and heard an irate man shout that he had the wrong apartment.

Airlines have won a stay on the implementation of Dublin Airport's summer passenger cap pending the outcome of a legal challenge. Aer Lingus, Ryanair and Airlines for America took High Court action after the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) set a seat capacity limit of 25.2 million seats for the summe

The High Court has set aside third party proceedings issued by Dublin City Council against Irish Water in light of a four-year delay. Delivering judgment for the High Court, Mr Justice Conleth Bradley stated that “if the underlying policy is to put the third party in as good a position as poss

Dillon Eustace has promoted Shane Harron to partner in the firm's Dublin-based restructuring and insolvency and commercial litigation teams. Mr Harron has over 12 years’ experience advising both private and commercial clients in all aspects of commercial litigation, insolvency, corporate

The High Court has expressed that Tusla, the Department of Children and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform need to work together to solve pay issues driving staff recruitment and retention deficits in special care units. Delivering judgment for the High Court, Mr Justice John Jordan con

Vulnerable children are falling through the cracks because of a shortage of care placements and overcrowded courts, according to a report from the Child Law Project. The analytical report identifies trends emerging from three years of court reporting and marks the conclusion of the Project's three-y

A free CPD webinar on the implications of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the O'Keeffe v Ireland case will take place on Thursday. The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission is hosting the online event, which will examine the implications of the ruling on the right

A new approach to managing sexual offenders, with a particularly strong focus on rehabilitation, has been adopted by Irish prisons. The new model of intervention, called 'New Chapters', was developed by the Irish Prison Service following a review of the Building Better Lives (BBL) programme conducte

Denise Kirwan, partner at CKT, reviews a recent Australian decision relating to the use of ChatGPT in child protection. The child protection agency in Victoria has been ordered to impose a ban on staff using websites that function using generative AI software after a social worker was discovered to

The European Commission has opened formal proceedings against Chinese e-commerce giant Temu under the Digital Services Act (DSA). The probe will assess whether Temu may have breached the DSA in areas linked to the sale of illegal products, the potentially addictive design of the service, the systems

An untrained law student enjoyed the rare opportunity to conduct a 60-person orchestra following a social media appeal. Ella Eroniemi, 22, responded to a post from Finnish national broadcaster Yle seeking a member of the public with no experience of conducting to try conducting the Radio Symphony Or