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New rights and remedies when legal services are not provided as expected and agreed have come into effect. The Consumer Rights Act 2022 came into force this week, consolidating and modernising consumer law and giving consumers new and significant protections.

Employees will be entitled to three days of paid sick leave per year from the start of 2023 following the commencement of new legislation. Tánaiste and enterprise minister Leo Varadkar has signed the commencement order for the Sick Leave Act 2022 and the Sick Leave Act 2022 (Prescribed daily

A feminist legal initiative aiming to research complex issues of law and gender across these islands has been awarded funding under the government's Shared Island programme. Dr Maebh Harding of University College Dublin (UCD) is leading the Doing Feminist Legal Work (DFLW) project, which will bring

South Africa's president has claimed that he hid at least hundreds of thousands of dollars in his sofa because it seemed "the safest place" to store it. The enormous sum of foreign currency was later stolen, and President Cyril Ramaphosa now faces impeachment over the murky circumstances of the thef

The Abhaile scheme providing financial and legal advice to people who are insolvent and in mortgage arrears on their homes has been extended until the end of 2023. Since its establishment in 2016, the Abhaile scheme has supported over 19,300 households at risk of losing their homes. Of those, 80 per

Belfast-based Paschal O’Hare Personal Injury Solicitors has expanded with the appointment of Jenna Curran as a solicitor. Ms Curran has extensive experience in litigation, having spent over 12 years helping injury victims recover compensation.

Youth justice minister James Browne has invited proposals from community and youth service organisations to establish new youth diversion projects (YDPs) in South Monaghan, Claremorris, Co. Mayo, South and East Co. Wicklow and West Cork. YDPs work with young people at risk of crime and anti-social b

People are being told to indicate their wishes after death as a new law creates a “soft opt-out” regime for organ donation. The proposed legislation, approved yesterday by Cabinet, will create a presumption that individuals are donors unless they have opted out of the scheme.

A legal challenge to the Northern Ireland Protocol is to commence at the Supreme Court.

McKees has been awarded a Silver Medal by EcoVadis in recognition of its business sustainability rating. Last year, McKees was the first law firm in Ireland to receive the EcoVadis accreditation and over the last 12 months, the firm has continued to implement policies to secure a silver rating which

Two neighbours who got into a row over a husband's suspected infidelity, leading to one woman slashing the other with a piece of glass, behaved in a “highly immature manner”, a judge has said. Julie Pigott and Catriona O'Keefe, both aged 42, got into a physical fight on a May morning las

Cleaver Fulton Rankin has welcomed the appointment of director Stuart Sproule. Mr Sproule joins the firm from Danske Bank, where he spent four years as its in-house legal counsel.

Judges in Fiji have no sense of humour, especially those who make typos, it has been revealed. A lawyer has been found guilty of contempt of court – for pointing out a spelling mistake made by a judge.

Family reunification, residency issues, citizenship, EU Treaty rights and employment were the top five issues raised by callers to the Immigrant Council of Ireland’s (ICI) Immigration Helpline in 2021. That’s according to data included in the ICI’s annual Impact Report.

Cancer misdiagnosis victims may be able to file a medical negligence, or medical malpractice, lawsuit against the doctor or other party responsible for the cancer misdiagnosis, writes Janet Keane. When filing a lawsuit against another party, the patient or patient’s family is referred to