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A truck carrying about 50,000 cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer has been stolen in California, prompting the brewer to offer the thieves a chance to return it without facing questions.

Palestinian lawyer and human rights campaigner Raja Shehadeh’s archive, documenting more than six decades of life in Palestine, has been preserved at the University of Edinburgh.

Kennedys has appointed James Ferrin to the role of legal director in Belfast as part of their global senior promotions round. Mr Ferrin practises in insurance law and joins 34 colleagues at offices around the world who have been promoted to legal director. A further 50 lawyers have been promoted to

The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has today announced its final decision following an inquiry into the HSE’s processing of personal data contained in paper records, which were found rotting and covered mould in disused hospitals by urban explorers. The DPC’s decision fines the HSE a

Clyde & Co has appointed Sinéad Lynch, a partner in its Dublin office, as head of corporate & regulatory insurance for Ireland. Ms Lynch joins from A&L Goodbody, where she was a partner in the firm’s corporate practice specialising in insurance and reinsurance. Dual qualifie

Ireland’s first public festival about the law, the Kilkenny Law Festival returns for its second year at the end of September. Programmed by Naoise Nunn, co-founder and former co-director of Kilkenomics, the festival that turned economics from a subject people avoided into a weekend people queu

DWF has announced a record six solicitor qualifications in its Belfast office, alongside the arrival of its largest-ever trainee cohort across its SQE and IPLS training programmes. The six newly qualified solicitors have qualified into a range of practice areas across the business' Belfast office:

Northern Ireland secretary, Sir Chris Bryant, has ordered an independent judge-led review into the Parades Commission.  This comes in the wake of the High Court decision last week that quashed a determination of the Commission in relation to the Orange Order march along the Garvaghy Road.

Amy McDermott and Christopher O'Reilly have been appointed to lead Arthur Cox’s London office, effective from 1 September 2026. Ms McDermott and Mr O’Reilly succeed Conor McCarthy, a partner in the firm’s corporate and M&A group who returns to Dublin after leading the London of

The death has occurred of solicitor Johnny Hooper who passed away on 29 August at the age of 91.

Matheson has advised residential and commercial developer Castlethorn on its joint venture with Avenue Capital. 

New practice directions on the use of generative AI in the Court of Appeal and the High Court come into force today.

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has written to the foreign affairs and trade minister, Helen McEntee, urging her to use Ireland's presidency of the Council of the European Union to lead EU Member States in stepping up efforts to protect the International Criminal Court (ICC) from t

McCann FitzGerald LLP has appointed partner Megan Hooper as the head of the firm's litigation and dispute resolution group, effective 1 September 2026. Ms Hooper joined the firm in 2002, having relocated from Australia, and was appointed partner in 2014. She practises in commercial litigation, inves

The estate of Arthur Conan Doyle has successfully blocked a businessman's bid to trademark "Dr Watson" for a clothing line.