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The Labour Party has announced plans to bring forward legislation to tackle "rape myths" in the Irish courts, the Irish Independent reports. Senator Ivana Bacik said her party colleagues, including Seán Sherlock, TD for Cork East, were looking into legislation in the wake of nationwide protes

Dillon Eustace acted for FBD Insurance, the largest Irish-owned insurer, on the acquisition of FBD's Mullingar offices. The 2,322㎡ premises, which houses FBD's midlands call centre operations, had been occupied by FBD under lease since 2007.

Gareth Noble, partner at KOD Lyons, addressed TD, Senators and representatives from the child protection and child advocacy sectors at an event marking World Children's Day yesterday.

A priest who embezzled €120,000 from his church because of an online scam has confessed to his congregation. Pastor Bernard Gawlytta confessed his guilt to churchgoers after a Sunday service and has now been removed from his post.

A man sought by Polish authorities under a European Arrest Warrant (EAW) can be surrendered despite systemic and generalised deficiencies in the courts of Poland presenting a risk to the fundamental right to a fair trial being breached, the High Court has ruled. Following a referral to the Court of

TLT has appointed Fergal Maguire, former director at Cleaver Fulton Rankin Solicitors, as a partner in its Belfast office. The appointment follows a period of sustained growth for the UK-based law firm's Northern Ireland office. This year saw TLT NI expand into employment law in July and corporate l

Belfast firm MKB Law has announced the appointment of Aine Toner as a family law and litigation solicitor. Ms Toner studied at Ulster University School of Law and the Institute of Professional Legal Studies (IPLS), qualifying as a solicitor in 2016.

A major judge-led review of the administration of justice in serious sexual offence cases in Northern Ireland has issued 220 draft recommendations for consultation, including the provision of publicly-funded legal advice to complainants and restricted public access to trials. Sir John Gillen, a reti

Solicitors in Galway have been invited to a meeting to discuss the roll-out of a new drug and alcohol programme pioneered in the US. The Western Region Drugs and Alcohol Task Force will meet with solicitors in Court Room 2 on Wednesday at 9.45am, according to the Galway Solicitors' Bar Association (

Law lecturer Dr Susan Leahy, co-author of Sexual Offending in Ireland: Laws, Procedures and Punishment, writes for Irish Legal News on the conduct of rape and sexual assault trials in Ireland. In light of the publicity surrounding a recent Cork rape trial where details of a complainant’s under

A barrister has warned that insurance company plans to popularise "dashcams" in Ireland may fall foul of EU data protection rules. William Bulman BL told the Irish Independent that the indefinite storage of footage recorded from a car dashboard could breach the EU General Data Protection Regulation

The UK Supreme Court has refused the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union permission to appeal against interlocutors of the Inner House of the Court of Session in the Article 50 case. President of the court, Lady Hale, Deputy President Lord Reed and Lord Hodge set out the reasons f

Draft legislation to provide redress to victims and survivors of historical institutional abuse has been published for consultation. A redress scheme was one of the key recommendations of the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry conducted by Sir Anthony Hart.

Belfast solicitor Pauline Morgan, partner at Haugheys Solicitors, has passed away. Mrs Brown, née Morgan, was a trained mediator and became partner at Haugheys on the Upper Lisburn Road in 2003.

A senior judge has warned that too few people are qualifying as criminal lawyers, The Brief reports.