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A&L Goodbody has won recognition at the Chambers Ireland CSR Awards for its collaborative project with the Irish Refugee Council (IRC) independent law centre.

Matheson has congratulated Eimear Hannon, founder and MD of Hannon Travel, on being named Matheson Women Mean Business (WMB) Female Entrepreneur of the Year 2019. The award was announced at the 2019 WMB conference in Dublin and presented to Ms Hannon on behalf of Matheson by partner Deirdre Dunne, w

Barrister Nuala Butler SC and solicitor Barry Magee delivered a Dublin seminar tailored towards public bodies involved in decision-making that can be the subject of judicial review.

Staff at Holmes O'Malley Sexton presented a cheque for over €6,800 to charity partner Headway Ireland to help fund its new "Wellness Vault".

EU law does not preclude a host provider such as Facebook from being ordered to remove identical and, in certain circumstances, equivalent comments previously declared to be illegal nor does it preclude such an injunction from producing effects worldwide – within the framework of the relevant

A man who says he was encouraged to try homosexuality by an iPhone app has launched a lawsuit against Apple for "moral suffering" because he ended up with a boyfriend. The plaintiff said he received an anonymous payment of 69 "GayCoins" on a cryptocurrency payment app, accompanied with a message alo

A man who was terminated without notice after working with a machinery manufacturing company for nearly a year has been awarded €15,000 in the Workplace Relations Commission. Finding that the company was in breach of the Employment Equality Acts, Adjudication Officer Ray Flaherty

There should be a "legal aid audit" when any new legislation is passed, the head of legal rights group FLAC has said.

A new consent form to improve the process by which solicitors seek a client's GP notes and records has been launched by the Law Society of Northern Ireland and the British Medical Association (BMA). The pilot represents the first in a series of joint initiatives from the two professional bodies and

Belfast firm Cleaver Fulton Rankin has announced the appointment of Christopher Bew, Olivia Sheanon, Brendan Tabb and Ruaidhri Groom as trainee solicitors. The trainees will spend a period of six months each in four different departments, working alongside skilled solicitors with the opportunity to

A new group of women lawyers is reaching out to environmental NGOs to find out how they can best contribute their legal experience to the fight against climate change.

The Courts Service of Ireland is set to begin refurbishment works at the historic former Ballinamore Courthouse this week. The building has sustained serious water damage since its closure in 2009 but will now be waterproofed, the Leitrim Observer reports.

A group of US judges and lawyers is travelling to Ireland next week to coincide with the opening of the new legal year. The visit, which is being assisted by Thomson Reuters, will see judges and lawyers from South Carolina and Minnesota meet with members of the Irish judiciary in Dublin from Monday

An email with an "automatic" signature has the same legal effect as a signed document, the High Court of England and Wales has ruled in a dispute over the sale of a plot of land. The case, heard by Judge Pearce in Manchester, concerned a string of emails in which lawyers for two men involved in a pr

British royal Meghan Markle has launched legal proceedings against the publishers of the Mail on Sunday alleging a breach of data protection laws. The matter relates to a private letter the Duchess of Sussex sent to her estranged father, which was published by the tabloid in February.