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Hundreds of lawyers in Palestine took to the streets yesterday to protest in the occupied West Bank against the Palestinian Authority’s “rule by decree”. President Mahmoud Abbas governs the region without a parliament as the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) has been inactive s

A woman who allegedly threatened to kill a district judge in Ballymena has been granted bail. Olivia Girvan, 25, must not come within 100 metres of the courthouse as part of bail conditions imposed by the High Court yesterday, the Belfast Telegraph reports.

A lawsuit involving a group of rugby players diagnosed with early-onset dementia is likely to go ahead. UK firm Rylands Law is to issue proceedings in England and Wales on behalf of a group of professional and semi-professional players against World Rugby as well as the Rugby Football Union and the

Government ministers have yet to reach a decision on whether to accept an Oireachtas committee's recommendation that international surrogacy should be included within an existing draft bill addressing domestic surrogacy. The joint committee on international surrogacy concluded earlier this month tha

AIB will no longer apply so-called negative interest rates to accounts with holding balances of over €1 million following the European Central Bank's decision to raise interest rates to tackle inflation. Solicitor client accounts were among those affected by the introduction of negative interes

Ogier Leman has announced the appointment of Dee Murphy as a senior associate in the firm's financial services dispute resolution department. Ms Murphy joins Ogier Leman after nearly 10 years with a commercial law firm in Dublin. She is a graduate of NUI Galway, where she received a BA in legal scie

Our regular round-up of deals involving Irish law firms. Submit your deals to newsdesk@irishlegal.com. DLA Piper has advised Mount Street on a 10-year strategic agreement with Aviva Investors for asset servicing arrangements totalling £50 billion assets under management (AUM).

Lady Hale has defended the Human Rights Act, which the UK government wants to replace with a new Bill of Rights. In an interview with The Guardian, the former president of the UK Supreme Court said: "The Human Rights Act is a perfectly good piece of legislation. There’s absolutely no need to s

UK law firm TLT is supporting one of its trainee solicitors who has been selected to play as part of the Northern Ireland netball squad at this year's Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. Ciara Crosbie is based at the firm's Manchester office. Prior to starting her training contract, she worked for TLT

Philip Lee has become the first Irish law firm to achieve accreditation as a cycle-friendly employer. The firm has been awarded gold — the highest of three possible grades — under the EU-wide programme established in 2017 by the European Cyclists' Federation to encourage more people to c

Lawyers with Pride has invited all those working in the legal sector to join the Belfast Pride parade this weekend.

A man has launched a multimillion dollar lawsuit against a retailer over its alleged failure to honour its promised lifetime guarantee on socks. Missouri man Kent Slaughter bought a dozen pairs of the "Redhead Lifetime Guarantee All-Purpose Wool Socks" between 2014 and 2021 and spent years bringing

International financial services law firm Walkers has announced the appointment of two new partners in Ireland. Damien Barnaville has been promoted to partner in the firm's asset management and investment funds group, while Shane Martin has been promoted to partner in the regulatory and risk advisor

Belfast human rights lawyer and political activist Pádraigín Drinan has passed away at the age of 75. Ms Drinan was admitted to the roll of solicitors in November 1974 and was principal in her own practice until her retirement in October 2013.

Caoilfhionn Gallagher QC, a prominent human rights lawyer from Ireland who practises in London, has spoken of receiving death threats, including one which said she should be murdered "like Pat Finucane". Ms Gallagher, a barrister with Doughty Street Chambers, shared her experience while speaking at