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Mason Hayes & Curran Dublin firm Mason Hayes & Curran acted for Irish renewable energy company Gaelectric on the project financing Ballybay and Foyle wind farms, by AIB plc, for a total of €38 million.

Joshua Browder The creator of a chatbot that successfully challenged 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York has now written a program to provide the homeless with legal aid.

Senator Jerry Hill A legislative committee in California has approved plans to strengthen disclosure requirements for building contractors following the Berkeley balcony collapse.

In the High Court, Mr Justice David Keane has allowed two property companies and their controlling director, to succeed in an interlocutory application for a Mareva injunction – thereby restraining a former employee from "removing from Ireland, disposing of, dealing with or diminishing the value o

The number of prosecutions disposed at Crown Court in Northern Ireland in 2015 fell by a massive 36.4 per cent because of the Department of Justice's legal aid dispute with barristers, new figures show. After an upward trend between 2011-14, the number of prosecutions fell 36.4 per cent from 2,063 i

Twenty-three barristers - 20 men and three women - have been approved for admission to the inner bar, The Irish Times reports. It is the last time that an advisory committee of the Chief Justice, the President of the High Court, the Attorney General and the chairperson of the Bar Council will make r

A High Court judge has criticised "enormous" legal fees and called for a "general reassessment of the appropriateness of the scale of legal fees that seem so regularly to be charged for legal representation". He made the remarks in a case where a woman in her 70s failed to pay legal fees of €176,4

Prime Minister Theresa May Plans to replace the UK's Human Rights Act with a “British Bill of Rights” could be scrapped or changed following the Brexit vote.

Ross Little Commercial and insurance law firm DWF has announced the appointment of corporate partner Ross Little (pictured) as the new executive partner of its Dublin office.

Global firm Pinsent Masons is searching for 10,000sq ft of office space in Dublin as part of its purported plans to open a base in the Irish capital, The Lawyer reports. According to the legal publication, Pinsent Masons instructed a commercial property agent in Dublin earlier this week to find a su

Gavin Booth The Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland will look into the 1992 shooting of Peter McCormack in Co Down, The Irish News reports.

The Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland has allowed an appeal from the decision of an Industrial Tribunal (IT) which dismissed the claim of a Slovakian national with Asperger’s Syndrome for unlawful racial discrimination, unlawful disability discrimination, victimisation, harassment on grounds o

Gerry McAlinden QC, chair of the Bar Council of Northern Ireland Gerry McAlinden QC, chair of the Bar Council of Northern Ireland, has mounted a fierce defence of the judiciary in the pages of the Belfast News Letter.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has said asylum seekers in direct provision centres should be allowed to cook their own meals.

Paul Tweed Compromising pictures of actor Orlando Bloom which appeared in the press have sparked a debate about the balance between privacy rights and freedom of the press.