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Sligo-based Callan Tansey LLP has celebrated five years since opening its office in Ballina, Co Mayo.

Queen's University Belfast (QUB) law student Vivien Loughrey has been presented with the JMK Solicitors Prize, worth £3,000. Ms Loughrey received the prize after achieving the highest mark in her tort law module, as well as meeting the widening access criteria set by the university.

Ronan Daly Jermyn (RDJ) has announced the appointment of five new partners across the firm's corporate, employment, healthcare, litigation and real estate practices. The new partner are Ruth Finnerty in healthcare, Marie Gavin in corporate and commercial, David Phelan in real estate, Michael Quinlan

Leo Moore, partner at William Fry, considers the regulation of e-scooters and e-bikes in Ireland. The government has just published the Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021 which legislates, for the first time, for the use of e-scooters and e-bikes on Irish roads and public spaces.

Two students at University College Cork (UCC) School of Law have each received a scholarship worth €5,000 and a work placement opportunity with Ronan Daly Jermyn (RDJ). Imamma Eunice Ikebuasi and Laya Little are the first recipients of RDJ's diversity scholarship, which supports students from b

Alison Cassidy, partner at DAC Beachcroft in Belfast, comments on Northern Ireland's low personal injury discount rate. It has been over five months since the Department of Justice made a shock announcement to change the personal injury discount rate (PIDR) from +2.5 per cent to -1.75 per cent, leav

ByrneWallace LLP partner Michelle Ní Longáin has been appointed as president of the Law Society of Ireland. An employment, equality and administrative law specialist, Ms Ní Longáin becomes the 151st president of the Law Society and the fifth woman to serve in the role. Sh

Judges are unsure as to who among them should hear a series of legal challenges to new personal injury guidelines because nearly all judges voted on them, according to reports. There are now at least five sets of proceedings in the High Court taking aim at the new guidelines, raising issues such as

The English Court of Appeal has refused permission to appeal by a 41-year-old man against a decision not to grant two orders in his favour to secure financial support from his still-married parents. Faiz Siddiqui, who was aged 41 at the time of the original hearing, argued that orders under the 

The High Court has refused an appeal for a personal insolvency arrangement (PIA) after it was held that the debtor’s income had not been “assessed and verified by the PIP in such a manner as would give confidence as to its accuracy”. The court held that the PIA left “no room

The Lady Chief Justice’s Office and the Bar Council of Northern Ireland have announced the launch of a new Legal History Project reflecting on 100 years of law in Northern Ireland. The project will curate and commission a new series of public and internal events, resources and personal histori

Legal rights group FLAC has warned in a new report of consumer over-indebtedness becoming a long-term problem in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. The third of four papers in FLAC's From Pillar to Post series examines issues arising in new and existing consumer debt cases following the pandemic, ba

Northern Ireland's High Court has ruled in favour of a convicted arsonist freed more than 33 years ago who submitted that a law preventing convictions of more than 30 months' imprisonment from ever becoming spent breaches his human rights. The court was persuaded to make a declaration that Article 6

The Court of Appeal has ruled that the Health Service Executive (HSE) was required to carry out assessments of children with suspected disabilities on a chronological and nationwide basis. In so ruling, the Court rejected a submission that the HSE could carry out such assessments of need on a region

Diego Gallagher has been elected as president of the Dublin Solicitors' Bar Association (DSBA) for 2021-22. Mr Gallagher was elected to succeed outgoing president Joe O'Malley at the DSBA's AGM on Wednesday.