Analysis

With the recent change in law allowing barristers and solicitors to enter into partnership, Killian Flood offers his views on how the new business model might work in practice, and who stands to benefit from barrister/solicitor partnerships. As of 8 October, barristers can enter into legal partnersh

Historian Susie Deedigan examines a new collection of colourised photos of Ireland in the 1940s. The Emergency in Colour presents 200 compelling images taken during the Second World War, or Emergency as it was known in neutral Éire. Each image has been carefully colourised by John O’Byr

Dear Editor, Former minister for justice Alan Shatter, himself a retired solicitor, wrote to The Irish Times' letters page this week defending the reforms he initiated in the Legal Services Regulation Act 2015.

Irish Legal News presents the second in a series of articles facilitating dialogue between criminal justice policymakers/practitioners and academic researchers. In today’s piece, criminologists from Maynooth University discuss how research partnerships can help translate research evidence into

Eoin Jackson considers how Ireland should respond to new proposals to recognise ecocide as an international crime. In September 2024, a group of Pacific Island states proposed that environmental destruction be criminalised under international law as a crime of “ecocide”.

Tim Carson places the statutory review of the Defamation Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 in context. Midway through the Long Vacation, the Northern Ireland Department of Finance quietly published its statutorily mandated Report on the Review of the Defamation Act (Northern Ireland) 2022.

Graham Ogilvy reviews Paul Tweed's new book about his life as an international libel lawyer to the rich and famous. Paul Tweed is a familiar figure on television and in the newspapers. Representing celebrity clients has made him something of a celebrity himself, and now he tells his story in a new b

Mark Healy explores the relevant laws and guidelines for Ireland's swimming pool operators. There have been a number of tragic high-profile drowning incidents at leisure centres in Ireland in recent years.

When Marie O'Brien spoke to Irish Legal News, it was from a hotel half an hour away from Istanbul Airport, a major international hub and the second busiest airport in Europe. The location was an appropriate one: the partner and head of the finance department at A&L Goodbody in Dublin is also the

Dear Editor, I write regarding Wednesday's judgment (Costello J in Carrownagowan Concern Group & Ors -v- An Bord Pleanála & Ors [2024] IECA 234) chastising the use of “slang or colloquialisms in a formal judgment of the High Court”, in particular by reference to the terms

Sir Declan Morgan defends the Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery (ICRIR) following a court ruling last week. Last Friday in Belfast, the Northern Ireland Appeal Court ruled on the independence of the Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery (

Keith Walsh SC analyses the latest figures on divorce and judicial separation cases before the courts. There was a 35.5 per cent increase in applications for divorce and judicial separations before the High Court in 2023, with numbers increasing from 71 cases in 2022 to 91 in 2023.

Robert Shiels reviews a book that sheds light on personalities who shaped 21st-century Russia. With the end of Soviet Russia, there was little in the way of precedent or planning for the political class to follow in the move to a new society and economy. A socialist state does not plan for its own d

Historian Susie Deedigan reviews a new book on the Irish men and women who fought against Nazi occupation in Europe. Janie McCarthy, a teacher from Killarney and somewhat unlikely résistante, is the first in the cast of fascinating characters whose stories are skillfully woven together in Clo

Graham Ogilvy reviews a new history of the liberation of Paris.