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Employment law solicitor Richard Grogan has been named Lawyer of the Year at the 2022 Dye & Durham Irish Law Awards. The winners of the 10th annual awards were revealed at a gala awards ceremony at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin on Friday night.

Doug McMahon, partner at McCann FitzGerald, examines the tightening regulation of businesses' environmental claims in Ireland and across Europe. As consumers become increasingly well-informed about environmentally friendly practices and causes, brands must ensure that any sustainability claims made

Human rights lawyer Les Allamby has been appointed to the Northern Ireland Policing Board. Mr Allamby is a solicitor who has previously served as director of Law Centre NI and chief commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC).

Dr Łukasz Grzejdziak, the Ronan Harty Newman Fellow at UCD Sutherland School of Law, has been appointed as an international expert in a major training programme for Ukrainian judges. The training programme, organised with the National School of Judges of Ukraine, is funded by the European Union thr

This has been another eventful month for Gavin Booth. On Friday 7 October, a judge at the High Court in Belfast ruled that the PSNI was in breach of a legal duty to carry out an effective investigation into a fatal loyalist gun attack on a pub in Co Down 30 years ago, which involved allegations of c

A&L Goodbody partner Christopher Jessup has been appointed as chair of FinTech NI. Mr Jessup is a partner in ALG's finance department in Belfast, focusing on financial regulatory matters.

The Hibernian Law Journal is now accepting submissions to be considered for publication in Volume 22. The Journal is particularly interested in receiving articles examining domestic matters and will also consider those which discuss European or international law or other common law jurisdictions, wh

The High Court has refused to grant an interlocutory injunction restraining a company from selling a generic version of a previously patented drug on the basis that the taxpayer would save €8 million. The drug was used to treat multiple sclerosis and was the subject of a patent which expired in

Most pension professionals do not believe plans for auto-enrolment in workplace pension schemes will happen as planned in 2024, according to a survey by Mason Hayes & Curran LLP. Ireland is the only OECD country that doesn’t yet operate an auto enrolment system or similar scheme. The new s

Northern Ireland lawyers have been urged to respond to a consultation on reforms to the principal legislation governing arbitrations in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The Law Commission of England and Wales last month unveiled proposals to update the Arbitration Act 1996 to ensure that the UK

Mercy Law Resource Centre (MLRC) has reported an increase of more than 180 per cent in queries from people who have been refused access to emergency homeless accommodation. The independent law centre received over 2,000 phone calls in 2021 and assisted 503 individuals and families at risk of homeles

Legislation introducing a temporary ban on most evictions of residential tenants over the winter has been passed by the Oireachtas. The Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022, once signed into law by the president, will defer ‘no fault’ tena

Barrister Nicole Lappin has been appointed as chair of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) Board. Mrs Lappin, who is qualified north and south of the border but no longer practising, will take up the role from 5 November 2022.

An Edinburgh woman who painted her front door an upbeat pink has been threatened with a £20,000 (around €23,000) fine. Aggrieved neighbours complained after Miranda Dickson broke with the sober colour scheme of the Scottish capital's historic New Town, The Times reports.

Northern Ireland's Department of Justice has launched a call for evidence seeking information to support any need to further extend the law on abuse of position of trust offences. The call for evidence asks whether the law should be extended beyond the new categories of sport and religion introduced