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Senior solicitors, barristers and a Court of Appeal judge are set to deliver bite-sized updates on the law at a fundraising event for the Capuchin Day Centre for Homeless People later this month. Attendees at the next Lawyers Against Homelessness (LAH) CPD event will hear from 12 speakers, including

Young barristers addressed A-level students in Belfast this month on the challenges they've faced while training and working as barristers. Five members of the Young Bar Association (YBA) took part in a panel discussion at the 28th Annual Inter-Schools Sixth Form Law Conference hosted by Methodist C

Belfast solicitor Laura Banks, who acted for Siobhan McLaughlin in her UK Supreme Court challenge to the rules governing the payment of a Widowed Parent’s Allowance, recently addressed members of UK charity Widowed and Young (WAY). Ms Banks, of Francis Hanna & Co. Solicitors, and Ms McLaug

Whitney Moore has won recognition as Ireland's Patent Contentious Firm of the Year at the 2019 Managing Intellectual Property Awards. Partners Aoife Murphy and Robin Hayes, as well as solicitor Caroline O'Connor, attended the London awards ceremony to receive the accolade.

Crown prosecutors have been given a 10 per cent salary boost following a decade of wage freezes. The First Division Association, which represents senior civil servants, negotiated with the UK government for the increase.

The UK Government has announced that temporary import tariffs to be imposed in the event of a no-deal Brexit will not apply to goods crossing from Ireland into Northern Ireland. The details of the tariff regime were published today ahead of a vote in the House of Commons on whether or not to rule ou

The governor of California has announced an immediate moratorium on the use of the death penalty in the US state. Governor Gavin Newsom, who was sworn in at the start of the year, will today sign an executive order granting a reprieve to prisoners on death row and closing down the execution chamber

The sentencing of prominent Iranian human rights lawyer and women’s rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh to 33 years in prison and 148 lashes in a new case against her has been described by Amnesty International as an outrageous injustice. The sentence, reported on her husband Reza Khanda

A lecturer at a top Scottish university was reported to police over an alleged "hate crime" after quoting Trainspotting on Instagram. James Mooney, a film and philosophy lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, screened the cult classic for a delegation of visiting American students last month.

A man who pleaded guilty shortly before trial to offences of attempted murder, criminal damage, and resisting police, has had his sentence for attempted murder increased after the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal agreed with the Director of Public Prosecutions that the initial sentence was unduly le

LK Shields has announced the return of Adrian Mulryan as the firm's new head of financial services.

Robert J. Rock, managing partner of Tully Rinckey's New York office, has qualified as a solicitor in Ireland in order to work with Tully Rinckey Ireland. Mr Rock has completed the extensive process of qualifying as a solicitor in Ireland and will now work with the firm's Dublin office.

The Oireachtas joint committee on justice and equality will produce a report on family law reform following the last of a series of meetings on the subject. The committee heard evidence this morning from Dr Geoffrey Shannon, special rapporteur on child protection; Kenneth Burns, UCC senior lecturer

Students at Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) have established a Law Society for students interested in a career in the law.

Two of the most prominent women judges in Ireland and Britain addressed a sold-out Belfast event to mark International Women's Day 2019 last week. Lady Arden of the UK Supreme Court and Ms Justice Finlay Geoghegan of the Supreme Court of Ireland addressed judges, barristers, solicitors and academics