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Human rights lawyer Michael Clements has rejoined Belfast-based KRW LAW LLP after two years working at the registry of the European Court of Human Rights. Mr Clements, who is dual-qualified as a solicitor north and south of the border, will work in the firm's public and administrative law and civil

Northern Ireland’s High Court has rejected applications for judicial review into the length of patient wait lists in the jurisdiction. The court found that although this issue was of public concern, the nature of the situation required political leadership, not court involvement.

The UK's home secretary Suella Braverman has doubled down on her use of inflammatory language after being confronted by a survivor of the Holocaust at a meeting in her constituency on Friday. Joan Salter, 83, told Ms Braverman that her language reminded her of that used by the Nazis to justify murde

A couple is set to go to court in defence of a rooster who has racked up thousands in fines for crowing too loudly. Jackie and Drew Tanenbaum, from Maryland, have been fined $4,800 (around €4,400) over Wilbur the rooster's crowing following a neighbour's complaints, local TV channel WTKR News 3

All legal businesses listed on the London Stock Exchange saw their share prices fall last year — with one tumbling by as much as 85 per cent. There are six listed legal services businesses, all of which performed poorly despite the broadly stable overall market, The Times reports.

Declan Black, former managing partner of Mason Hayes & Curran, has joined the board of directors of Rethink Ireland. Formerly known as the Social Innovation Fund Ireland, the charity provides cash grants and business supports the most innovative non-profit organisations working in communities ac

A&L Goodbody has appointed Robbie O'Driscoll as head of its London office. Mr O'Driscoll, a partner in the firm's finance group, is relocating from Dublin to London to take on the leadership role. He succeeds Stephen Carson, who returns to the Dublin office after leading the London office for fi

Women at Ireland's largest law firms are earning up to 61 per cent less than their male colleagues, figures released under Ireland's gender pay gap reporting law suggest.

Retired Belfast solicitor James Wilson Russell has passed away at the age of 100. Mr Russell, known to many as Jay, qualified as a solicitor in 1944 after an apprenticeship with TG Mackintosh of Newtownards.

Slaughter and May has made its ‘Bring your Dog to Work Day’ permanent following a trial last summer. The firm allowed lawyers and staff to bring their dogs to work last year to alleviate stress.

The PSNI has been urged by human rights campaigners to end the practice of strip searching children. Members of the NI Policing Board told investigative news and analysis website The Detail that they continue to have concerns despite the force establishing a new "accountability panel" last year.

Matthew Holmes BL examines recent case law on cross-examining witnesses in the Irish courts. “The examination of witnesses viva voce and in open court is of central importance in our system of justice” — the Supreme Court in Phonographic Performance (Ireland) v Cody [1998] 4 IR 504

The High Court has dismissed a personal injury claim brought by a university student who fell from a bucking horse at an equestrian centre. The plaintiff suffered a significant back injury in the fall and brought proceedings against the equestrian centre and the university which organised the horse-

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Iranian lawyer charged after reporting client was tortured | RFE/RL

Beauchamps has appointed Paul Gough, Caoimhe Banks, Stuart Conaty and Caroline Shanahan as partners. Mr Gough, partner in the firm's employment and benefits team, regularly acts for clients before the Workplace Relations Commission on a range of employment-related matters as well as providing employ