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Companies House has new powers to improve the quality and reliability of its data and tackle misuse of the companies register. The first measures under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCT Act) come into force yesterday.

Many of Northern Ireland’s leading businesses have been told the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and fragmentation of ‘threat actor groups’ means having robust cyber defences has never been more important. As part of a week-long programme of events marking CyberNI Week, Pinsen

Justice minister Helen McEntee has launched a new All Island Community Safety Network. The project is being funded through the Community Safety Innovation Fund, which seeks to reinvest seized proceeds of crime directly back into projects to improve community safety.

DWF has added Janet Keane as a new healthcare director to its team in Dublin. With over 15 years of expertise in healthcare law and clinical negligence, Ms Keane joins the global legal business from Callan Tansey Solicitors LLP as a director in DWF's healthcare team, which operates across all f

A survey by Clark Hill paints a more optimistic picture of Ireland’s energy targets. The recent Powering The Future energy conference, held in Ennis, Co. Clare, brought together industry leaders, policymakers, and experts to discuss the future of energy security in Europe.

Motorists recently found themselves driving alongside two police horses running down the longest highway in the US. The pair were caught on camera weaving around traffic on Interstate 90 in Cleveland, Ohio.

The Irish Immigration Lawyers' Association (IILA) and the Irish Asylum and Citizenship Bar Association (IACBA) held a landmark CPD event.

The Court of Appeal has determined that the High Court should not have extended an undertaking as to damages where no objection was made to the undertaking before or during the injunction hearing and where there was insufficient evidence to support Teva’s novel application. Delivering judgment

Mr Justice Patrick Kinney has been appointed as deputy chairman of the Boundary Commission for Northern Ireland. The judge, who has served on the High Court since December 2022, was appointed to the post by the Lady Chief Justice, Dame Siobhan Keegan, for a period of three years.

Generative AI is a hot topic in legal circles, with some companies boasting that their AI can replace lawyers. Killian Flood examines how AI might shape the professions in the coming years.

A Canadian lawyer is facing an investigation after being reprimanded by a court for making submissions which included references to "fictitious" cases invented by an AI chatbot. A notice of application filed by Vancouver lawyer Chong Ke in a family law case last December made references to two cases

The Law Society of Ireland has formally adopted a Yes-Yes position on the Constitutional referendums, to be held on Friday. President of the Law Society, Barry MacCarthy, said: “The Law Society has considered the issues involved and is advocating for a Yes vote in both the upcoming Referendums

Callan Tansey Solicitors LLP celebrated three years in Limerick and the Mid-West with an evening reception in its office in Theatre Court, Lower Mallow Street, Limerick.

Robert Shiels is impressed by a new history of opium which paints a fascinating picture of an ancient trade with a profound impact on modern society. Opium has its own history and this discursive study by novelist Amitav Ghosh, moving into factual history, concentrates on individual aspects of the o

A landmark legal challenge relating to the regulation of diesel car emissions in Northern Ireland returned to the High Court today for the first time since the return of devolved government. Friends of the Earth Northern Ireland, represented by The Public Interest Litigation Support (PILS) Project a