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The High Court has ruled against a man who objected to the registration of an Enduring Power of Attorney made on 20th July 2012 by his mother (the Donor) appointing her daughter as Attorney. The objection was made pursuant to the provisions of s. 10 of the Powers of Attorney Act 1996.

Pictured (l-r): Jerry Buting and Connor Beaton Cuts in the provision of legal aid in Northern Ireland will threaten the quality of legal representation for the poorest people in the area, star lawyer Jerry Buting from Making a Murderer has warned.

Acting Health Minister Leo Varadkar The Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) has called on Acting Health Minister Leo Varadkar to establish a task force for reform of the medical negligence system.

Pictured (l-r): Joshua Rozenberg QC, David Barniville SC, chairman of the Council of The Bar of Ireland and The Hon. Mr Justice Peter Kelly, President of the High Court The Bar of Ireland's annual conference took place in Kilkenny over the weekend, focussing on the topical theme of "Trial by Media".

Patrick Corrigan, Northern Ireland programme director at Amnesty International Sunday marked 18 years since the Good Friday Agreement was signed, forming the basis for the Northern Ireland peace process in the 1990s and the eventual establishment of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Paul McBride, partner and head of the Belfast office at Pinsent Masons International law firm Pinsent Masons has been named Law Firm of the Year at the Legal Business Awards.

The publication in Iris Oifigiúil of the names of people who have obtained Irish citizenship has been suspended pending a review. Since 2011, the names and full addresses of new Irish citizens has been published in the official gazette of the Government of Ireland.

Members of the public have been invited to contribute to a code of ethics for An Garda Síochána. The Policing Authority plans to consult on the text of a draft code in autumn 2016 but is currently seeking the "preliminary views of the public, people who work for the Garda Síochána and other key

Two undergraduate and postgraduate student teams from Queens University Belfast (QUB) competed in the annual Corn Adomnáin International Humanitarian Law competition.

The High Court has found that three Portuguese companies that traded in Ireland as a partnership known as RAC Eire Partnership, failed to pay its employees for the amount of hours they worked, made unreasonable deductions from their pay, and designed a contract of employment that would conceal their

Donnacha Curley Donnacha Curley, an independent Seanad Éireann candidate on the industrial and commercial panel, has called for a constitutional referendum on joining the EU's Unified Patent Court.

Michael Johnston, managing partner of Carson McDowell Belfast firm Carson McDowell advised on nine major transactions worth £35 million in the first quarter of the year, the highest total value of any local law firm.

The Queen's University Belfast (QUB) Human Rights Centre and King's College London will co-host an all-day event next week examining the landmark European Court of Human Rights judgment in Ireland v UK (18 January 1978). The event stars in QUB's Canada Room at 10:30am on Thursday 14 April and runs u

A celebrity whose alleged “extramarital activities” are the subject of a gagging order under English law has been named in the US, calling into question the point of privacy injunctions in the age of social media. The man, whose identity was revealed in a US publication, is said to have been inv

Gardaí have sent a newly completed file on the 1981 Stardust nightclub fire to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). A fresh investigation was launched into the disaster that killed 48 people and injured 200 in Dublin 35 years ago after evidence emerged suggesting that five of the victims died