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Personal injury lawyers have urged Northern Ireland's Department of Justice to avoid a scenario where severely injured people are under-compensated in comparison to those in England and Wales. The Department recently carried out a consultation on how inflation should be taken into account when the p

Niamh Muldoon has been named as the next chief executive of the Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA). Ms Muldoon, a solicitor who has served as chief executive officer and registrar of the Veterinary Council of Ireland since 2019, will take up the role on Monday 23 March.

Hereditary peers in the House of Lords will become a thing of the past under legislation which has now passed at Westminster. The House of Lords will no longer be up there with Lesotho's Senate among the only legislative bodies in the world with a hereditary element following the passage of the Here

A judge has ruled against a couple who tried to reclaim a small area of land by planting a garden gnome on it. England's Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) ruled last week on a years-long dispute between neighbours in Surrey.

The Belfast Solicitors' Association (BSA) has secured a hard-fought 4-3 victory over the Bar of Northern Ireland in the legal profession's twice-yearly football match-up.

A large-scale investigation is taking place into a former PSNI officer suspected of committing rape and other sexual offences over the course of a decade. The Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland has said it is "allocating all available resources" to the investigation and has warned that this may i

Retired Co Cork solicitor Miriam Morley has passed away. Mrs Morley was a solicitor at Midleton firm W St Clair Rice & Co, which merged with Eoin Murphy Solicitors in 2022 to become Murphy Rice & Co.

New research has identified how effective, trust-based relationships between youth justice practitioners and young people can play a significant role in supporting positive change and reducing offending behaviour.   The study, led by the Research Evidence into Policy, Programmes and Practice (R

Gore & Grimes Solicitors LLP has announced a three-year sponsorship of a Royal Irish Academy of Music (RIAM) initiative providing young people with free instrumental tuition and access to musical instruments. Through the "Play it Forward – Expanding Music Access" programme, 26 students age

An independent review commissioned by the Mental Health Commission has acknowledged solicitors' concerns about the online system for registering enduring powers of attorney (EPAs). The 24-page report published today focuses on the effectiveness of the role of the director of the Decision Suppor

Antisocial air passengers who play music from their smartphones out loud now face being banned from a world-leading airline. United Airlines, by some rankings the world's biggest airline, has revised its contract of carriage to require passengers to use headphones when listening to a device, CBS New

HOMS Assist has expanded its probate and wills department with the appointment of Olga Sandys as solicitor and Bronagh Gennery as probate administrator. The announcement follows the firm's recent promotion of Claire Tuohy to partner, recognising her expertise in wills, trusts, probate and cross-bord

The Irish government has set out more details of planned legislation to enable co-operation with the UK's Omagh bombing inquiry. The inquiry, which began in July 2024, is examining the preventability of the 1998 bombing, which was orchestrated by the Real IRA and led to the deaths of 29 people and t

The UK government has published the terms of reference for the long-awaited public inquiry into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane. Mr Finucane, who co-founded Madden & Finucane Solicitors, was murdered in his home in north Belfast on 12 February 1989 by loyalist paramilitaries wh

Dublin's Four Courts has played host to the inaugural Myers Moot Court Competition (MMCC), Europe's first moot court dedicated exclusively to EU whistleblowing law. The MMCC, organised by the European Whistleblowing Institute (EWI), is designed to inspire the next generation of whistleblowing law pr