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Experienced litigator Orla Shevlin has joined Tallans Solicitors. She will join the practice as a senior personal injury, medical negligence and commercial litigation lawyer.

International law firm DAC Beachcroft has announced that it will launch a new office in Belfast – its second office launch of 2019, following Paris in January. DAC Beachcroft will establish its presence in Belfast by taking on the insurance business of Northern Ireland firm McKinty and Wright.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has rejected a request to investigate alleged war crimes in Afghanistan – a week after the US revoked the entry visa of ICC prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, for looking into the selfsame issue.

Draft domestic abuse legislation fails to protect women in Northern Ireland, MPs have warned. The legislation introduces a statutory definition of domestic abuse to encompass economic abuse as well as controlling and manipulative behaviour.

The corporate watchdog legal adviser who led the botched investigation into the former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Seán FitzPatrick has asked why his former boss cannot submit a report on what happened to an Oireachtas committee, The Irish Times reports. Kevin O’Connell, who worked for th

A new chief executive is being sought for the Law Society of Northern Ireland. The news comes in the wake of February's announcement that Alan Hunter is to retire after 11 years on the job.

The county councillor accused of blacking out signs of street names in Cork City relating to Queen Victoria has applied for his case to be heard in Irish. The Cobh-Glanmire representative's application is set to be heard at the High Court in Dublin in May, the Irish Examiner reports.

The President of the UK Supreme Court has visited Belfast, where she discussed children's rights. Lady Hale talked about the criticism levelled at the UK Government's record on supporting disabled children, the Belfast Telegraph reports.

Arthur Cox is funding scholarships which will enable up to 40 students per year access to an education in University College Cork School of Law.

Human beings should always know if they are directly interacting with another human or an artificial intelligence (AI), a report highlighting a series of "critical concerns" about future AI systems, has warned. The report from the European Commission's High-Level Expert Group on AI listed a number o

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled again that the UK's blanket ban preventing serving prisoners from voting represents a violation of article 3 of protocol No. 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) – the right to free elections. The court declined, however, to a

A fertility doctor illegally used his own sperm to father 49 children, DNA tests have revealed. Dr Jan Karbaat, whose children are known as"Karbaatkinderen", impregnated the women at a clinic near Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

A man who was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment has lost an appeal against the severity of his sentence. Finding the sentence to be in the same range as other sentences involving a knife, which was a substantial aggravating factor, Mr Justice Peter Charleton sai

Legislation providing for a referendum on divorce to be held next month has cleared both houses of the Oireachtas without opposition. The Thirty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution (Dissolution of Marriage) Bill 2016 was approved by the Seanad last night.

Ireland's re-entry visa system will be abolished with effect from next month, the Government announced today. Under the system, visa-required nationals who live in Ireland and who wish to travel to and from the country have been obliged to apply for a re-entry visa in advance of travel.