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The High Court has ruled that Enoch Burke will be fined €700 per day if he continues to defy a court order requiring him to stay away from his former school. Mr Burke had been released from prison for contempt of court in December 2022 but began attending his former place of work in January onc

President of the European Court of Human Rights, Síofra O’Leary, has encouraged Council of Europe member states to use the forthcoming Summit of Heads of State and Government in Reykjavik to commit further resources to the court. Speaking at the court’s annual press conference in

Burges Salmon, which has offices in Dublin and Belfast, has been named the RollOnFriday ‘Best Law Firm to Work at 2023’, an accolade that the firm has achieved for the second year in a row. Burges Salmon’s managing partner, Roger Bull, said: “To be named the inaugural RollOnF

The legal market is a highly competitive environment. Everyone in our beloved sector can witness it and the heat is constantly dialling up. A recent LexisNexis business development survey indicated that competition for new clients is the greatest concern that solicitors have. One of the most, if not

Gerard Kelly, partner at Mason Hayes & Curran, examines the potential impact of new AI-powered tools on legal practice. E-discovery is the process by which traditional discovery, a process in litigation whereby the parties exchange and review potentially relevant documents, has been increasingly

Pictured (left–right): Tomás McDonagh, Aisling O’Donovan, Jamie Olden, Jennifer Noctor and Brian Morrissey RDJ has announced the appointment of four partners.

The human rights adviser for the Policing Board has criticised the PSNI’s “endless excuses” over how it records the community background of people who have been arrested or stopped and searched, The Detail reports. The board's annual human rights report noted that that a “sig

Fieldfisher has announced the appointment of three new associates: Ciara Gilroy (insolvency and restructuring), Steven Whelan (public and regulatory) and Clodagh Morrissey (public and regulatory).

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Human rights lawyer gunned down amid turmoil in Africa’s last absolute monarchy | The Globe and Mail

Major changes to the planning system, including new restrictions on judicial review applications and legal costs, have moved forward with the publication of a draft bill. The government said its draft Planning and Development Bill 2022 will bring greater clarity, consistency and certainty to how pla

Matthew Howse, partner at Eversheds Sutherland in Belfast, explains why restrictive covenants are an increasingly attractive prospect for employers in Northern Ireland. A new year brings the opportunity to take stock and make plans for the year ahead. For a person looking at the next 12 months, a ne

UK law firms and accountants that fail to do enough to prevent fraud are the target of the UK government's Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill. The government intends to introduce a new offence in the bill, when it makes its way to the Lords, that will be based on similar offences for bri

Lawyers and litigants involved in so-called strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs) in England and Wales should be made to pay into a defence fund to protect freedom of speech, a Westminster committee has said. The House of Lords select committee on communications and digital said t

The Court of Appeal has increased the sentence for a Romanian national who repeatedly raped a young woman in 2018. The man was previously sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment by the Central Criminal Court, with the final three-and-a-half years suspended due to the accused not speaking English and not

Twitter is facing a court battle with the company that manages the British monarch's public estate after allegedly failing to pay rent on its London office. The new lawsuit filed by the Crown Estate comes just weeks after the owner of Twitter's California HQ filed a similar complaint over unpaid ren