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Stephen Holst has been re-elected as managing partner of McCann FitzGerald LLP for a further three-year term. Mr Holst's current term finishes on 30 April 2026, while his new term will run from 1 May 2026 to 30 April 2029.

A pensioner who taught himself the law to defend the length of grass in his garden has won a five-year battle against local officials. Canadian man Wolf Ruck, 79, told CTV News that he studied law at a postgraduate level in order to pursue his legal action over rules restricting the length of grass

Arthur Cox Northern Ireland has appointed David Black as head of its litigation and dispute resolution practice. Mr Black joined the firm in 2011 and is a partner in the litigation and dispute resolution group.

Former Eversheds Sutherland partner Julie Galbraith has joined Arachas, Ireland's largest nationwide insurance broker, as chief business officer and general counsel. Ms Galbraith will oversee the company's legal, human resources, and marketing and communications functions.

A&L Goodbody has recruited Eoin O Connor, Eimear O'Brien and their team to the firm's financial regulation advisory group. The new partners join alongside senior associate Bill Laffan and associate Hannah Vero, and will work with the existing team of partners Patrick Brandt and Louise Hogan and

Ireland's civil legal aid system could be pushed "from a state of crisis to one of collapse" this year unless "radical reform" is implemented, FLAC has warned as a major conference gets under way. The independent legal, human rights and equality organisation is today hosting a conference on civil le

Plans to pilot a Restorative Justice Court in Northern Ireland have been shelved indefinitely as a result of budget constraints. The development of a pilot scheme for a court modelled on the Substance Misuse Court was raised in Northern Ireland's first adult restorative justice strategy when it was

The financial threshold for mandatory notification of mergers in Ireland should be increased, the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) has said amid a growing caseload. There were 90 mergers notified in 2025, up from 82 in 2024 and 68 in 2023, according to the CCPC's annual mergers

A Labour MP has launched an attack on Sir Keir Starmer’s proposed jury trial reforms, warning he could force a by-election unless the plans are abandoned, and revealed that his opposition is rooted in a personal experience of being falsely accused of a crime. Karl Turner, the former shadow sol

The UK's independent online safety watchdog, Ofcom, has opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk's social media platform X amid concerns about AI-powered abuse of women and children. The regulator warned that some sexually-explicit images generated and shared by X users using the Grok AI chatbot

William Fry has welcomed 18 new associates following the completion of their traineeships with the firm.

A major international law firm is set to roll out a new scheme whereby junior lawyers can spend up to 20 per cent of their time on "hands-on AI exploration". Ropes & Gray piloted the AI programme in its US offices and is now set to bring it to London, according to The Times.

The Maples Group has set out plans to bring its legal and financial services businesses in Dublin together under one roof. Maples and Calder (Ireland) LLP and MaplesFS will both be based at 75 St Stephen's Green from 2028, following a planned renovation of the building.

Two prisoners have been convicted of running a sophisticated telephone scam from behind bars which netted nearly half a million dollars from dozens of victims. Joey Amour Jackson and Lance Riddle — also known as "Apeshit" and "C-Port" — masterminded the scheme while locked up in the US s

Thousands of Irish passports issued at the end of 2025 and the beginning of 2026 are invalid and need to be reissued, the government has admitted. Passports issued between 23 December 2025 and 6 January 2026 are missing the letters "IRL" and are therefore not compliant with international rules, acco