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David Conlan Smyth SC, barrister and chair of the CCBE’s migration law working group The Law Society of Ireland and The Bar of Ireland have announced their backing for a legal aid initiative in support of refugees engulfed in Greece’s ongoing migrant crisis.

Professor Laurence Gormley, professor of European Law at the University of Groningen A record number of commercial- and business-related disputes were sent to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) last year.

Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire will visit Belfast today for the first time since his Cabinet appointment.

The Government is drawing up plans to introduce a new national indemnity scheme to protect farmers and landowners in the event that someone is injured on their land, the Sunday Independent reports. Government officials are reportedly spurred on by a recent court judgment and aiming to have the schem

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has defended the deportation of foreign nationals suspected of supporting Islamic extremism even if there is not enough evidence for a criminal prosecution.

An Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has found that a company policy requiring an employee to remove her Islamic headscarf when in contact with clients constitutes unlawful direct discrimination and that an entirely neutral dress code policy may also constitute in

Eversheds Consulting has expedited plans to expand into Ireland following the UK's vote to leave the European Union. It was reported last week that the firm had lost a pitch to a German client to a competitor because Eversheds Consulting did not have an EU presence outside Britain.

Brad Smith, Microsoft's president and chief legal officer Microsoft has welcomed a US court decision overturning an order to hand over data stored in an Irish data centre.

A man who was fined for not having a television licence has won his appeal against the fine because he only watches programmes on catch-up. Nick Thomas, 43, was visited by the TV licensing office last year as he was not registered as having a TV licence.

The Court of Appeal has found that making an order directing the sale of jointly owned family homes, to enable the discharge of a judgment debt obtained by a credit union against one of the spouses, would be to direct the sale of the family home over the wishes of an innocent spouse not a party to a

James Brokenshire Northern Ireland secretary Theresa Villiers has stepped down from her post after turning down a new role in Theresa May's government.

Simon Coveney New census data has found that 25 constituencies are constitutionally under-represented.

Breakdown company AA has taken advice from William Fry and King & Wood Mallesons during the sale of its Irish business and operations, AA Ireland, to a US-Irish private equity fund, Carlyle Cardinal Ireland. The current trading agreements between AA Ireland and the AA will continue as part of a

The Dáil has passed legislation giving the Commission of Investigation further powers to examine some transactions of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation. The passing of the Commission of Investigation (Irish Bank Resolution Corporation) Bill 2016, will provide powers to reduce issues of confiden

Eileen McAuley An 88-year-old pensioner who was struck by a trolley in a department store has been given the maximum €60,000 personal injury damages that can awarded by Circuit Civil Court judges.