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ByrneWallace has announced the continued expansion of the firm’s reputation management and crisis management teams with the appointment of new partner and corporate litigator Mark O’Shaughnessy.    Mr O’Shaughnessy specialises in advising Irish and international companies

The Court of Appeal has ruled that a company selling free-range eggs is entitled to a permanent injunction restraining a competitor from passing off their goods. The three-judge court today overturned a 2016 High Court ruling that Galway Free Range Eggs Ltd, which sells eggs under the "Galway Free R

The European Commission has fined Mastercard €570 million for limiting the possibility for merchants to benefit from better conditions offered by banks established elsewhere in the Single Market, in breach of EU antitrust rules. Mastercard is the second largest card scheme in the European

The speed and frequency of how businesses communicate has evolved significantly over the last 20 years. Multiple emails, SMS and WhatsApp messages have replaced the traditional letter. This has had a considerable impact on the costs and resources now involved in complying with a discovery request in

The annual International Criminal Court Summer School at the Irish Centre for Human Rights takes place between 24-28 June 2019.

The Irish Examiner has profiled solicitor and author Catherine Kirwan, whose novel Darkest Truth, has just been published. Ms Kirwan reflects on how she set up a reading group to study James Joyce's Ulysses and prepared reports on each meeting, which proved a gateway into writing fiction.

A presentation was held at Comyn Kelleher Tobin's offices in Cork this week to the employee’s 2018 chosen charity Cork City Children's Hospital Club following fundraising initiatives by CKT staff over the last year. Members of the CKT CSR committee including Sarah Kelleher, HR manager at CKT,

The courts system is in chaos following a major computer outage that has lasted for days.

A lawyer who twice forged her transcript in an attempt to land her dream job has been struck off. Jaya Anil Kumar, 30, doctored the transcript for her law degree from the National University of Singapore (NUS) when applying to the Singapore Legal Service in 2013.

The Director of Public Prosecutions has lost an appeal against wholly suspended sentence which was given to a man who pleaded guilty to stabbing another man in the back with a kitchen knife. Accepting that the sentence was indeed a very lenient one, Mr Justice John Edwards said that an ent

A judge has warned that lawyers concerned about changes to the way in which asylum, immigration and citizenship cases are run in the High Court should avoid writing "manifestos" The Irish Times reports. Mr Justice Richard Humphreys said that if solicitors and barristers want to discuss the rules, de

Tughans has topped an M&A league table for the fourth consecutive year. The firm was credited with 59 deals in total last year, representing 27 per cent of all Northern Ireland deals identified in the Experian MarketIQ United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland M&A Review.

A man employed by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is to go on trial in May over allegations he leaked information on a murder trial, The Times reports. Jonathan Lennon, 35, of Clonee, Dublin 15, has been charged with four counts of contravening the Official Secrets Act 1963 in respect

Scottish lawyers have given their overwhelming backing to a "People's Vote" on the final Brexit deal in a poll conducted by our sister publication, Scottish Legal News.

Dr Ian Cooper of the Dublin City University's Brexit Institute divulged his seven-part run-down on the Brexit process to an audience drawn from law, politics and academia at an event in JW Sweetman on Friday. For Brexit to be successfully carried out, the British government needs to pass through wha