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Emma Pengelly MLA A qualified barrister and former law lecturer who was co-opted as an MLA a mere month ago has been elevated to the rank of junior minister.

Niamh O'Donnabhain BL The supermarket which sold contaminated yoghurt that led to two children falling sick can be named, Judge Patrick Durcan at Ennis District Court has ruled.

Photo credit: Suzanne Mischyshyn (CC BY-SA 2.0) Legal proceedings against the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) are to be lodged at the High Court in Belfast by the family of a man killed by the UVF in Dublin.

Maeve O'Rourke Human rights lawyer Maeve O'Rourke has joined the list of speakers at the TEDxUCD 2015 conference in December.

Peter Alderson The total earnings of barristers have risen to £1.5 billion in the last year, up five per cent on the year before, and 11 per cent on two years ago according to LDF, an independent financial advice provider.

Douglas Bain The Northern Ireland Assembly's standards commissioner has firmly denied accusations that he relied on Wikipedia while conducting an inquiry into an MLA's conduct.

The legal safeguards governing covert surveillance of an Irish man's consultations with his lawyer were insufficient at the time of his custody the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled. The applicant in the case of R.E. v. the United Kingdom was arrested and detained in Northern Ireland

The Courts Service of Ireland has rejected claims that only 40 per cent of drink driving cases before Irish district courts result in convictions. The Courts Service dismissed figures released by the Department of Justice and Equality (DJE), telling the Irish Times that the accurate figure was close

Mary Cashin Legislation to promote mediation will be "very important" in changing mediation in "the psyche of people", Irish solicitor and family law mediator Mary Cashin has said.

Paul Tweed The Sunday Post, a Scottish newspaper, has been forced to issue a retraction after Belfast solicitor Paul Tweed threatened legal proceedings on behalf of Harrison Ford.

Mark Mullen and Dawn McCambley Mark Mullen and Dawn McCambley have been admitted to the degree of barrister-at-law and called to the Bar of Northern Ireland.

David Brangam and Peter O'Reilly David Brangam and Peter O'Reilly have joined Dublin law firm LK Shields as associate solicitors in the corporate & commercial and banking & finance teams respectively.

Seven organisations and individuals were recognised for excellence in mediation at the Mediators' Institute of Ireland (MII)'s annual conference in Dublin.

Next month sees a prestigious and timely conference taking place in Dublin on the theme of "Law and Religion". The conference organisers explain: "Debates about law and religion have suffused politics for centuries and contemporary Irish society provides a rich context for a discussion of key issues

Alain Spilliaert Judge Patrick Gachon, the French judge presiding over an inquiry into the 1996 killing of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, visited the scene of her death in west Cork earlier this month.