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Belfast firm Millar McCall Wylie has been awarded top-tier firm status in the Legal 500, with more of its lawyers listed than ever before. Managing partner Peter McCall and partners Damian McParland, Jan Cunningham, Conor Wylie and Scott Kennedy were recognised on the Leading Lawyers listing.

Three nuns who stopped receiving their Portuguese state pension after returning to Ireland have had the payments reinstated following an intervention by the Irish Ombudsman. The nuns had been without pension payments for over six months after returning to Ireland, having spent decades in Portugal pr

LK Shields has launched a new partnership with NUI Galway which will see the law firm working with artist James Riordan to develop a programme of workshops for NUIG Access students. The "SOAR" initiative has been made possible by the law firm's relationship with Business to Arts and the Creative Ire

Ministers have launched a public consultation on proposed changes to Ireland's hate speech laws. The consultation, which will run until 13 December 2019, has been described as the "first phase" of a wider update of criminal law on hate speech and hate crime.

A senior legal academic has called on Queen's University Belfast to make a "full public apology" over its historical involvement in electrical aversion therapy for gay men. Professor Phil Scraton, emeritus professor in QUB School of Law, said the university's response to revelations over its involve

Eversheds Sutherland partner Aisling Gannon has been named a 2019 LGBT+ Ally Role Model by OUTstanding in recognition of her work on the firm's diversity and inclusion initiatives. Ms Gannon, who has a transgender child, is an active member of Perspective, the firm's employee network for LGBT+ staff

The Supreme Court has said that the Court of Appeal erred in reversing a non-party costs order made against the principal shareholder of a company who was found to be solely responsible for directing and overseeing a fraudulent claim issued by his insolvent company. Emphasising “the need to pr

Sherwin O'Riordan Solicitors has announced the promotion of Elaine McNally to partner in the firm's litigation department. Ms McNally joined the firm in 2015 after more than 10 years of experience in litigation, particularly civil and personal injury litigation.

Wilson Nesbitt has become the first law firm in Northern Ireland to achieve a certification in GDPR from compliance specialists Briefed. The certification process involved an in-depth audit of the firm's information governance and accountability, and the policies, procedures and controls in place to

Litigation solicitor Paul Tuohy has joined Limerick firm O'Gorman Solicitors. Mr Tuohy was previously a partner at another mid-west law firm, where his practice focused on personal injury law, medical negligence and employment law.

Cryptoassets should be treated in principle as property under English law, lawyers have recommended. Legal statement on cryptoassets and smart contracts details how English law would accommodate these new commercial phenomena.

Mason Hayes & Curran has announced the re-selection of Declan Black as the firm’s managing partner for a third term.

Mason Hayes & Curran has announced the promotion of David Ormsby to partner in the firm's dispute resolution team. Mr Ormsby, previously a senior associate with the firm, practices in corporate and personal insolvency law and all related litigation.

Internet giants Facebook and Google pose a systemic threat to human rights because of their "surveillance-based business models", Amnesty International has warned in a new report. The human rights group's Surveillance Giants report argues that the companies "control the primary channels that people

Whitney Moore has announced the promotion of Marie Claire Scullion, Vicky Riordan and Colin Hayes to partners in the firm's employment and dispute resolution teams. Ms Scullion is an employment and data protection specialist, providing pragmatic and commercial advice to employers and employees on al