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St Patrick’s Day has long been a date of special significance in the Irish diaspora calendar, with Irish communities across the world marking the occasion with parades and céilís. This year in particular will see millions of people celebrating the day together for the first time

Co Mayo firm P. O'Connor & Son has announced the appointment of Gina Mullen and Siobhán Durkan as partners.

Antrim Crown Court was not swayed that an 18-year-old attacker who had 10 previous convictions had been unable to exercise self-control due to his diagnosis of ADHD and alcohol dependency. On 26 June 2020, the defendant, Jordan McClintock, arrived at a small gathering on the Ballykeel Estate in Ball

Belfast firm McKees has presented a cheque for £2,000 to mental health charity PIPS after a year of fundraising efforts.

Irish Legal News has had a great start to the year, breaking through two social media milestones with 964 new followers taking our busy LinkedIn channel up to 14,253 while our Twitter followers have today gone through the 8,000 mark. Steady growth in subscribers to the free daily ILN newsletter cont

Ireland's special rapporteur for child protection has called for a State inquiry into illegal adoptions. In a report published today, Professor Conor O'Mahony said the State was aware of the possible existence of a practice of illegal birth registrations since the early 1950s and had received an act

The UK Supreme Court has refused to give whistleblower Julian Assange permission to appeal against his extradition to the US. He had attempted to appeal on the basis he is at risk of suicide but the justices said the application did not raise “an arguable point of law”. 

The criminal legal aid sector in England and Wales is to receive up to an extra £135 million a year following a consultation, the UK government has announced. The move follows an announcement this week that 94 per cent of Criminal Bar Association members had voted in favour of industrial actio

A motorist who led police on a 35-mile chase was found to be carrying a toy driving license from Legoland. After a long pursuit, a 21-year-old man was arrested by officers from Kent and London on suspicion of multiple driving and drug-related offences, KentOnline reports.

Cyber risks threaten the future of digitalisation even before the war in Ukraine is taken into account, according to a new report from global law firm Eversheds Sutherland. The report highlights key findings from the firm's survey of 700 senior executives globally on the uptake of digital technologi

A humanitarian appeal launched by Northern Ireland solicitor Joanna Tobolska-Walczuk and her sister has raised £13,000 for Ukrainian refugees in just two weeks.

Scholarship awards for PhD students will be excluded from the means test for the blind pension under new regulations. The regulations signed by social protection minister Heather Humphreys and public expenditure and reform minister Michael McGrath follow regulations introduced last March to exclude

British judges have upheld Bermuda's ban on same-sex marriage as constitutional in a challenge brought to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC), which remains the island territory's highest court of appeal. The JCPC, based in London, is the highest court of appeal for British Overseas T

McCann FitzGerald partners Eamon de Valera and Jennifer Halpin consider a recent judgment with implications for holders of liens over Land Registry property. Following a recent High Court decision, holders of registered liens over Land Registry property will need to check what that lien is expected

The High Court has held that the HSE failed to properly assess potentially disabled children in accordance with the Disability Act 2005. It was said that the HSE was obliged to diagnose every child with a disability for the purposes of establishing the nature of extent of a child’s disability.