News

A lawyer for a construction company director, wanted in the UK over his role in a £5 million (about €5.8 million) tax fraud, has argued that Brexit leaves his client in a “legal limbo”. Thomas Joseph O'Connor, 49, was sentenced in his absence to four-and-a-half years in prison for defrauding

Saudi Arabia has made a multimillion dollar effort to export Wahhabism across the Islamic world and the West, including the UK, where it has funded mosques and Islamic educational institutions which in turn host Islamist extremist preachers and facilitate the distribution of extremist literature, ac

Arran Dowling-Hussey Barrister Arran Dowling-Hussey was named Ireland's lawyer of the year at Finance Monthly's 2017 Global Awards.

Proposed Fourth Floor break out space with glazed rooflight Redevelopment plans for the Inner Temple will meet the "needs and demands of training for barristers" the Inn has said.

Two women who were forced to work in Magdalen laundries have been granted an order of certiorari, quashing the refusal of the Minister for Justice and Equality to admit them to a government compensation scheme. Mr Justice Michael White refused to grant relief on the basis that the decision was unrea

Barristers in the trial of former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean FitzPatrick were paid record fees, The Irish Times reports. Senior counsel for the prosecution and defence were paid €3,000 a day, over three times the standard rate of €858 a day for senior counsel in Circuit Court trials.

Keystone Law has announced two significant senior hires to its Belfast office, just four months after the UK firm expanded into Northern Ireland through its merger with McMahon McKay.

Over 250 delegates celebrated the 80th anniversary of the Constitution at a successful conference in Waterford over the weekend.

Lord Neuberger The UK has a ‘serious problem’ with access to justice, the president of the UK Supreme Court has said.

Beauchamps has welcomed five interns to the firm for the next four weeks as part of the July intake of its Summer Internship Programme.

Pinsent Masons today revealed its unaudited results for 2016-17, which shows global turnover increased by 11 per cent to £423.1m. Almost 85 per cent of revenues were generated from clients operating in the firms' five global sectors, with the largest contributors advanced manufacturing & techno

MSM Law has joined with the Belfast Solicitors Association’s (BSA) charity partner – Inspire - to become an ‘Inspiration Point’ for mental health and wellbeing. The campaign is part of Inspire’s work to break down mental illness stigma and ensure that individuals have access to information

A US state has begun offering a third gender option on driving licenses. This week Oregon introduced an “X” category, which legally recognises people who are non-binary, intersex and agender on government ID cards.

Liam Herrick and Dr Eoin O'Dell Legal experts have rebuffed suggestions that Irish laws need to be tightened because of the use of social media during the Jobstown trial.

A former NAMA adviser who was the subject of several BBC Spotlight broadcasts in 2016, has had his application for an interlocutory injunction to prevent further broadcasts declined in the High Court in Belfast.The application was based on assertions that, inter alia, further broadcasts would amount