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Gun manufacturer Remington will pay $73 million to the families of nine victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting under the terms of a settlement announced yesterday. Remington, which is bankrupt, manufactured the Bushmaster AR-15 style rifle used by 20-year-old gunman Adam Lanza in

Arthur Cox has announced the appointment of Darragh Geraghty as head of its New York office and Conor McCarthy as head of its London office. Mr Geraghty, a partner in the firm's finance group, takes over the New York office from Phil Cody, who has served in the role since 2017.

An Irish lawyer was forced to withdraw face masks with the words "no comment" emblazoned on them after being warned they could fall foul of advertising regulations. The Law Society wrote to Ciarán Mulholland in 2020, early in the Covid-19 pandemic, following a complaint made by a fellow solic

A Stormont committee has failed to agree on a way forward for a bill of rights for Northern Ireland after nearly two years of work. The ad hoc committee on a bill of rights, established in February 2020, yesterday published its report, based on engagement with a wide range of experts in human rights

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) will rule this week in a case brought against the United Kingdom by the sister of an IRA volunteer who was shot dead by British soldiers in 1990. The applicant in the case is Sally Gribben, whose brother Martin McCaughey and fellow IRA volunteer Desmond Gre

More solicitors, women and people with diverse backgrounds should be granted the title of senior counsel, the Law Society of Ireland has said. The honour, traditionally reserved for barristers, has been bestowed on solicitors since 2020. Of the 29 solicitors who have so far received this recognition

Drew Harris will remain in post as Garda Commissioner until June 2025, the government has announced. Mr Harris was appointed to the top role in An Garda Síochána for a five-year term beginning in September 2018, following a long career in the PSNI.

Global law firm Fieldfisher has announced the promotion of nine solicitors to the rank of associate in its Dublin office. The new associates are Aisling Kiernan in real estate; Aisling McMorrow, Aisling Ray, Hannah Unger, Honor Hargaden and Maeve McNally in public and regulatory; Jamie Woodcock in c

Eversheds Sutherland, which has an office in Belfast, has increased salaries for NQ lawyers in both its London and regional UK offices. London NQs will see an increase of 15.8 per cent, from £82,000 to £95,000. Lawyers elsewhere will see their pay rise from £50,000 to £62,000

Ireland could be referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) if it does not bring the law on alarm and signal weapons – which are used to fire blanks or pyrotechnics – in line with an EU directive. The European Commission has sent a reasoned opinion to Ireland, Bulgaria

Hundreds of people have volunteered to be locked up in a brand-new prison as part of a test run for the facility. The new prison in Zurich, Switzerland has capacity for 241 remand prisoners, but authorities decided to test the facility on local volunteers before it opens in April, Swissinfo reports.

The High Court has refused a judicial review application by two accused to prohibit their trial in the Special Criminal Court. The applicants argued that the SCC was a temporary and emergency mechanism but had become a de facto permanent court in the Irish system. As such, it was argued that the con

Maura McNally SC, chair of the Bar Council, has been appointed as chair of the governing body of Atlantic Technological University (ATU). ATU will become Ireland's fourth technological university upon opening its doors in April, absorbing three existing institutes of technology: Galway-Mayo Institut

Complaints about a refusal to enter a licensed premises should be heard in the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) rather than the District Court, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. In a newly-published review of the adequacy and effectiveness of section 19 of the Intoxicating Liquor A

The Child Law Project (CCLRP) has identified the lack of secure and step-down placements, mental health concerns, unaccompanied minors and parental neglect as the key features of its latest volume of reports of cases where the State sought orders to take children into or keep them in care. Severe me