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Retired Belfast solicitor Kevin Eugene Hart, founding partner of Hart & Co Solicitors, has passed away at the age of 92. Hart & Co Solicitors was founded in 1970 and is a now a well-established firm offering services in the areas of conveyancing, commercial property, litigation, liquor and g

Dillon Eustace has announced the appointment of Martin Colman as head of the firm's real estate department. Mr Colman advises on all aspects of commercial real estate including acquisition, development, construction, property finance, disposals and landlord and tenant matters.

Lawyers Against Homelessness has raised more than €220,000 in support of the Capuchin Day Centre, organisers said following their ninth CPD event. Yesterday's event — the latest in a series of fundraising CPD events hosted since late 2017 — focused on personal injury and employment

The disAbility Legal Network will next week host an event looking at the future of hybrid work and the opportunities and challenges for people with disabilities in the legal sector. Hosted in collaboration with A&L Goodbody LLP, the event on 29 November 2022 will mark the International Day of Pe

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is immune from US civil proceedings brought by the fiancée of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the US government has said. Hatice Cengiz is suing Mr bin Salman and 28 others in the Washington D.C. federal district court over Mr Khashoggi's 2

Northern Ireland personal injury firm JMK Solicitors has grown its headcount by 20 per cent since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, the firm has announced. Despite the impact of the pandemic on businesses across the world, the firm added staff across all teams, including legal adviso

The Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) has secured High Court orders against two solicitors in the first use of its enforcement powers since it began receiving complaints three years ago. The regulator's second complaints report for 2022 reveals that the LSRA has made two successful enforcem

Arthur Cox LLP has introduced a new leave policy for employees who are undergoing fertility treatments such as IVF. Following a government announcement of a new publicly-funded IVF treatment scheme, the law firm has introduced a new fertility leave policy entitling employees undergoing fertility tre

Offshore law firm Walkers has appointed Aongus McCarthy as a partner in its asset management and investment funds practice group in Ireland. Mr McCarthy, who previously led the investment funds team of an international law firm, advises domestic and international asset managers on the structuring, e

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A man who complained about his wife's insistence on treating her dogs as her children has been granted a divorce. The woman's "obsession with the dogs made it unbearable for the husband to continue in the marriage", a family court in Singapore ruled.

A delegation of four Tanzanian judges have arrived in Ireland at the beginning of a week-long technical exchange aimed at improving their handling of child sexual abuse. The judges will spend time both north and south of the border, learning about both jurisdictions' approaches to adjudicating gende

Legal advice and legal representation should be provided to people struggling with consumer debt, legal rights group FLAC has said. The fourth and final paper in FLAC's "Pillar to Post" series on consumer debt issues is due to be published this evening.

The number of women in senior leadership positions in Ireland has declined in recent years, according to research by business law firm Mason Hayes & Curran. The firm’s fifth annual in-house counsel and gender parity survey was conducted during the summer of 2022 and reflects the views of o

Long-awaited reforms to Ireland's family courts have reached an "important milestone" with the publication of the first National Family Justice Strategy and the impending publication of the Family Court Bill, the justice minister has said. Helen McEntee yesterday confirmed that she had received appr