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The Belfast Solicitors' Association (BSA) has secured a hard-fought 4-3 victory over the Bar of Northern Ireland in the legal profession's twice-yearly football match-up.

A large-scale investigation is taking place into a former PSNI officer suspected of committing rape and other sexual offences over the course of a decade. The Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland has said it is "allocating all available resources" to the investigation and has warned that this may i

Retired Co Cork solicitor Miriam Morley has passed away. Mrs Morley was a solicitor at Midleton firm W St Clair Rice & Co, which merged with Eoin Murphy Solicitors in 2022 to become Murphy Rice & Co.

New research has identified how effective, trust-based relationships between youth justice practitioners and young people can play a significant role in supporting positive change and reducing offending behaviour.   The study, led by the Research Evidence into Policy, Programmes and Practice (R

Gore & Grimes Solicitors LLP has announced a three-year sponsorship of a Royal Irish Academy of Music (RIAM) initiative providing young people with free instrumental tuition and access to musical instruments. Through the "Play it Forward – Expanding Music Access" programme, 26 students age

An independent review commissioned by the Mental Health Commission has acknowledged solicitors' concerns about the online system for registering enduring powers of attorney (EPAs). The 24-page report published today focuses on the effectiveness of the role of the director of the Decision Suppor

Antisocial air passengers who play music from their smartphones out loud now face being banned from a world-leading airline. United Airlines, by some rankings the world's biggest airline, has revised its contract of carriage to require passengers to use headphones when listening to a device, CBS New

HOMS Assist has expanded its probate and wills department with the appointment of Olga Sandys as solicitor and Bronagh Gennery as probate administrator. The announcement follows the firm's recent promotion of Claire Tuohy to partner, recognising her expertise in wills, trusts, probate and cross-bord

The Irish government has set out more details of planned legislation to enable co-operation with the UK's Omagh bombing inquiry. The inquiry, which began in July 2024, is examining the preventability of the 1998 bombing, which was orchestrated by the Real IRA and led to the deaths of 29 people and t

The UK government has published the terms of reference for the long-awaited public inquiry into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane. Mr Finucane, who co-founded Madden & Finucane Solicitors, was murdered in his home in north Belfast on 12 February 1989 by loyalist paramilitaries wh

Stoney Road Press is pleased to launch: View of the Four Courts and Liffey, Dublin by artist Martin Mooney.

Dublin's Four Courts has played host to the inaugural Myers Moot Court Competition (MMCC), Europe's first moot court dedicated exclusively to EU whistleblowing law. The MMCC, organised by the European Whistleblowing Institute (EWI), is designed to inspire the next generation of whistleblowing law pr

Dozens of artists have been shortlisted for the inaugural Taylor Wessing Irish Photo Prize. The Irish office of Taylor Wessing — soon to become Winston Taylor under a major transatlantic merger — established the prize last year in partnership with Photo Museum Ireland and Business to Art

Northern Ireland lawyers must defend access to justice and the rule of law, the president of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association (CLA) has said on a visit to Belfast. Steven Thiru was invited by the Law Society of Northern Ireland to discuss the threats to access to justice in Commonwealth cou

An Oireachtas committee is seeking views on upcoming legislation on AI regulation and data governance. The joint committee on enterprise, tourism and employment has invited written submissions from interested individuals and organisations as part of its pre-legislative scrutiny of the Regulation of