News

136-150 of 21284 Articles
Clock icon 1 minute

Lavelle Partners LLP has appointed Georgina Lanigan to head up the firm's asset and debt recovery practice. Ms Lanigan brings a wealth of experience to the firm, specialising in advising financial institutions, credit servicing companies and SMEs on mortgage and commercial litigation, asset and debt

Clock icon 2 minutes

Maples and Calder (Ireland) LLP, the Maples Group's law firm, has appointed two new partners and four new of counsel. Funds and investment management lawyer Aoife McDonagh and finance lawyer Joe O'Neill have both joined the firm's Irish partnership.

Clock icon 2 minutes

A pilot programme providing for more court sittings during the Long Vacation has been welcomed by practitioners. Mr Justice David Barniville, president of the High Court, yesterday set out details of the pilot, which will begin on 1 July 2024 and run until the end of September 2024.

Clock icon 3 minutes

Legislation targeting the grooming of children into crime has completed all stages in the Oireachtas. The Criminal Justice (Engagement of Children in Criminal Activity) Bill 2023 makes it an offence for an adult to compel, coerce, direct or deceive a child for the purpose of engaging in criminal act

Clock icon 2 minutes

New legislation is set to prevent workers from being forced to retire before they reach the state pension age. Ministers have approved the general scheme of the Employment (Restriction of Certain Mandatory Retirement Ages) Bill 2023, which will prevent the enforcement of mandatory retirement ages lo

Clock icon 1 minute

US prosecutors have charged a man who allegedly sent classified information through a dating website to someone who claimed to be a Ukrainian woman and referred to him as her "secret informant love". David Franklin Slater, a 63-year-old civilian employee of the US Air Force, has been charged with al

Clock icon 2 minutes

Plans to ratify the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) are moving forward with the establishment of a new inter-departmental group. The new group will include all relevant government departments as well as the Office of the Attorney General, an

Clock icon 2 minutes

Two students have been awarded best in law at Ulster University Business School’s Excellence Awards, led by the Department of Management, Leadership and Marketing. MSc management & corporate governance graduates Hannah Louise Smyth and Zuzana Caisova were joint winners of the Factor Prize

Clock icon 2 minutes

Donald Trump will be permitted to appear on the ballot in all 50 US states after the Supreme Court ruled he was wrongly removed from Colorado's primary ballot last year. The decision of the court, which was unanimous, overturns a 4-3 rulung from Colorado's Supreme Court that the former president cou

136-150 of 21284 Articles