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Landmark reforms to mental health law have cleared a significant legislative milestone. The 202-section Mental Health Bill 2024, which will replace the Mental Health Act 2001, completed committee stage in the Dáil yesterday evening.

A hotel in China has been ordered to stop waking guests by placing red pandas in their rooms. The unique wake-up service offered by Chongqing-based Lehe Ledu Liangjiang Holiday Hotel has become a hit with tourists and influencers.

Ministers have set out their proposals to ban the importation of goods from illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The general scheme of the Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill has now been published.

Plans to implement the final phase of the government's "Zero Tolerance" strategy to tackle domestic, sexual and gender-based violence (DSGBV) have been set out. The targeted implementation plan published today contains 95 actions across the strategy’s four pillars of "protection, prevention, p

More resources are urgently needed in the family law system, a leading solicitor has said after new figures from Women's Aid revealed reports of domestic violence are at a record high. Women's Aid said its national and regional frontline services were contacted 32,144 times in 2024, an increase of 1

Plans to establish a permanent non-jury court may require approval through a constitutional referendum, the government has been warned. The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has called on the justice minister, Jim O'Callaghan, to clarify whether he plans to hold a referendum after he last mon

Belfast firm Davidson McDonnell has celebrated 10 years since its establishment. Established by Ross Davidson and David McDonnell in 2015, the firm now provides corporate/M&A, property, commercial litigation and banking advice to many of Northern Ireland's largest business names.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin last night joined A&L Goodbody for the official opening of its newly redeveloped headquarters at 25 North Wall Quay, Dublin 1. Mr Martin addressed nearly 600 staff from ALG's Dublin office to celebrate the next chapter for the firm in the heart of Dublin’s I

Comyn Kelleher Tobin has welcomed six new trainee solicitors in its largest ever intake.

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The Unique Product Identifier (UPI) is a new field and a component of the common data elements (CDE) which apply under EMIR, UK EMIR, ASIC, and MAS. Its purpose is to identify an OTC derivative product. The Unique Product Identifier is mandated for use alongside the existing Legal Entity Identifier

The chief executive officer of the Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) is set to leave to take up a new role with Fiosrú. Dr Brian Doherty has been nominated for appointment as deputy police ombudsman in Fiosrú, which was formally established in April as part of Garda oversight

Baffled police have freed a man who got stuck in a chimney while trying to rescue his dog from a locked toilet. The 35-year-old man was locked out of a park building in Connecticut on Saturday night when the doors automatically locked at 10pm.

Palestine Action has announced plans to challenge the UK government in court over its plans to proscribe the direct action protest group under terrorism legislation. Gareth Peirce of Birnberg Peirce Solicitors, a high-profile lawyer who previously represented the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Si

The UK's Ministry of Defence is to pay an undisclosed sum of damages to the family of a teenage victim of the Troubles following a settlement reached without admission of liability. The High Court in Northern Ireland yesterday heard that a settlement had been reached in the 15-year legal battle over