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Philip Nolan, head of technology law at Mason Hayes & Curran Dublin firm Mason Hayes & Curran has been named a silver sponsor of this year's CoderDojo Coolest Projects Awards.

The Court of Appeal has found that the Taxing Master erred in his methodologies when calculating the appropriate fee in a medical negligence case. The proceedings concerned a case brought by Isabelle Sheehan (suing through her mother and next friend, Catherine Sheehan), with regards to negligence on

The Bar of Ireland has announced a three-year sponsorship of the free legal advice clinics run by Community Law & Mediation.

Free legal assistance will be available to anyone making a statement to the inquiry into Mother and Baby Homes, thanks to a partnership between campaign groups and global law firm Hogan Lovells. Justice for Magdalenes Research (JFMR) and Adoption Rights Alliance (ARA) have announced a major project

Justice Minister Claire Sugden Northern Ireland's Justice Minister Claire Sugden yesterday began a tour of Northern Ireland's prisons by meeting prison officers and staff at Magilligan Prison.

Scottish lawyers will overwhelmingly vote Remain in the UK's referendum on EU membership, according to a poll conducted by our sister publication, Scottish Legal News. Asked how they intended to vote in next month's referendum, 78 per cent of 528 respondents said Remain, while only 22 per cent said

Two leading UK public health organisations have called for the personal possession and use of all illegal drugs to be decriminalised. The Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) and the Faculty of Public Health (FPH) have called for a package of measures to move UK drugs strategy away from a "predomi

A trustee company that sought to prevent a financial services group from redeeming enhanced capital notes has had its appeal dismissed by judges in the UK Supreme Court. BNY Mellon’s appeal was dismissed by a 3:2 majority. Lord Neuberger gave the leading judgment, with which Lord Mance and Lord To

An employee at the Geneva offices of Mossack Fonseca, the law firm at the centre of the Panama Papers leak, has been arrested. Last year a whistleblower contacted German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, offering information from the internal files Mossack Fonseca. The leak resulted in the resignation

Dublin firm A&L Goodbody has partnered with Business to Arts to develop children's creativity and literacy skills. The firm will provide funding worth €30,000 over three years for the Writer in Residence programme, which will see a writer work with children at a primary school in East Wall, pa

, as did the National Governing Body for Ireland. In addition to those international and national publications the defendant relied on the 2008 7th Edition of a publication entitled "Safe Practice in Physical Education and School Sport" published by the Association for Physical Education, which stat

Jim O’Callaghan, Fianna Fáil justice spokesperson Legislation to place the Parole Board on a statutory basis was introduced to the Dáil this morning on the initiative of Fianna Fáil.

Garnet Orange SC A leading barrister and drug crime expert has said gardaí need more resources to tackle gang-related crime and not legislative changes, the Irish Independent reports.

Margaret Martin Women's Aid, the national domestic abuse support service, has called on Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald to extend draft domestic violence legislation to cover young women in dating relationships.

Caroline Maguire, employment legal adviser at the Law Centre Law Centre (NI) has welcomed a recent English court decision in favour of six Lithuanian men who had been severely exploited by the company that employed them as chicken catchers.