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Northern Ireland lawyers Darragh Mackin and Gavin Booth will each receive more than €410,000 in damages after being defamed by businessman Denis O'Brien and his spokesperson, James Morrissey. A High Court jury in Dublin found on Friday that Mr Mackin and Mr Booth were defamed in a press release

A&L Goodbody has welcomed newly-qualified solicitors Catherine Sheppard, Holly Emerson, Holly Molloy, Luca StClair, Martyn Doherty and Niall O’Hare to its Northern Ireland team. The six join the firm following their completion of its trainee solicitor programme, bringing the headcount in B

Waterford firms Bowe O'Brien Solicitors and Parker Law are to join forces through a merger next week. The merger between Bowe O'Brien, a boutique private client and commercial law firm, and Parker Law, a general practice firm, will take effect from 1 December 2025.

William Fry has appointed Jason Milne as partner and head of the firm's environment and planning group. Mr Milne brings over 25 years' specialist expertise in environmental, planning, and health and safety law.

Corporate law firms BHSM LLP and OBH Partners have announced a strategic merger taking effect from next week. The new firm will be known as BHSM LLP incorporating OBH Partners and will comprise 70 legal professionals, including 40 solicitors.

An Elvis-loving judge has agreed to resign from the bench after disciplinary action for taking his love of the King too far — including by wearing an Elvis wig in court. Judge Matthew Thornhill, from Missouri, said he was trying to "help relax litigants" through his light-hearted antics, but n

The High Court has awarded €65,000 in general damages, including €30,000 for psychiatric injury, to the victim of a minor rear-ending accident. Delivering judgment for the High Court, Mr Justice Cian Ferriter determined that notwithstanding the court’s finding that the plaintiff had

Scottish lawyers may be celebrating their national football team's success in the World Cup qualifiers, but are licking their wounds after their own bruising defeat by the Bar of Northern Ireland.

Plans to train judges in AI and digitalisation have been set out by the European Commission. The Commission yesterday launched its new digital justice package, which includes a strategy for helping member states "unlock the potential" of AI and digital tools in justice systems, as well as a new judi

UK government ministers will meet next month with the families of those killed in the 1994 Chinook helicopter disaster, who are campaigning for transparency and a judge-led public inquiry. A total of 29 service personnel died when the helicopter crashed on the Mull of Kintyre en route from Northern

A new book exploring Ireland's legal history has been launched in Belfast by the Irish Legal History Society. Confluences of Law and History: Irish Legal History Society Discourses, 2011-2021 brings together an eclectic mix of papers on aspects of Irish legal history from the early modern period to

Northern Ireland's communities minister has rejected major reforms to liquor licensing proposed by an independent review earlier this year. Changes to the "surrender principle" were among the 26 recommendations made by researchers at the University of Stirling, whose report was published in February

McCann FitzGerald partners Niall Best and Conor Cunningham offer insights into the government’s new public consultation on a life sciences strategy. In a pivotal moment for a sector that employs around 100,000 people in Ireland and delivers close to €100 billion in exports annually, the D

Ireland has formally launched its campaign for membership of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) for 2027-29. Yesterday's launch event in New York comes after the government set out its "thematic priorities" in September.

The High Court has dismissed an appeal against a decision of a reconstituted LSRA Review Committee directing the closure of a complaint file. Delivering judgment for the High Court, Mr Justice Max Barrett explained that the position contended for by the appellant would “create a never-ending c