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New measures to protect British soldiers and veterans from prosecution for their actions abroad should eventually be extended to Northern Ireland, Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt has said. The proposals, announced yesterday, will see British soldiers protected from investigation over their actions

Coleraine-based Macaulay Wray Solicitors has appointed Miriam Harte as an associate in the firm's litigation department. Ms Harte, originally from Ballymena, specialises in road traffic and personal injury cases, as well as having a keen interest in family law.

OSM Partners has announced the appointment of Andrew Croughan as partner and head of personal insolvency, and Raymond Lambe as partner in the firm's corporate and commercial litigation department. Mr Croughan has over 10 years’ experience in the area of commercial litigation, dispute resolutio

Naomi Gaston, senior associate and head of banking and finance at Mills Selig, considers how businesses can protect themselves from the impact of "fake news" and rumours. Customers queued earlier this month to withdraw cash and personal items from safety deposit boxes from Metro Bank. The queues at

Co Kildare firm Moloney & Co Solicitors has announced a formal partnership with Greek law firm Pavlakis-Moschos & Associates to provide support to Irish people injured in Greece. Pavlakis-Moschos is an international travel law firm operating for 40 years in the centre of the commercial and l

Dozens of law firms, legal practitioners and in-house legal teams across Ireland have been named as finalists ahead of the 2019 Irish Law Awards. Now in their eighth year, the awards aim to identify, honour and publicise outstanding achievements, while also recognising individuals who have dedicated

Barristers heard from cervical cancer patient Vicky Phelan and rape survivor Leona O'Callaghan at a landmark conference on the experience of plaintiffs and victims in pursuit of access to justice through the legal system in Ireland. The Bar of Ireland's chairman's conference, "Laws & Effect", to

The Law Society of Ireland has helped nearly 100 solicitors return to work after an extended period of leave in the past three years. A total of 93 solicitors from across the country have completed the Returners Programme, which the Law Society has run four times since 2016.

The number of cybercrime prosecutions in the UK represents less than one per cent of reported incidents, despite their increase in the past year. The latest data show there were 17,900 reported cases of computer hacking in 2018, up 74 per cent from 13,200 in 2017. The most commonly reported types we

A former UK Supreme Court judge has criticised the "mission creep" of the European Convention on Human Rights and suggested that the UK could be forced to withdraw from the nearly 70-year-old convention. Lord Sumption, 70, said that "intensely political questions" had been reclassified by the ECHR a

According to Advocate General Szpunar, Facebook can be ordered to seek and identify all comments identical to a defamatory comment that has been found to be illegal, and equivalent comments in so far as the latter originate from the same user. In the present case, the EU law relied on does not regul

Dundalk firm Catherine Allison & Company Solicitors has announced the appointment of Emma Fearon as a litigation solicitor. Ms Fearon was educated in Northern Ireland and obtained an LLB from Trinity College Dublin, before going on to study for her legal practising certificate at the College of

International law firm DAC Beachcroft is celebrating its tenth anniversary in Dublin with a special event for clients and colleagues later this month. The event at The Royal Hibernian Academy will mark the firm's growth from just one Dublin-based lawyer in 2009 to an office of over 60 colleagues, wi

The Chief Justice of Ireland, Mr Justice Frank Clarke, has been announced as the key speaker at the next Lawyers Against Homelessness (LAH) charity CPD event. The event on Thursday 27 June will be the sixth CPD conference organised by the group, founded in late 2017 as a collaborative effort of barr

Thousands of criminal cases are being reviewed after the family of a judge said he had been going to work drunk. The allegations were made in guardianship papers filed by the family of Judge William T. Marshall, 62, an elected judge in southern Ohio.