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A man who fraudulently used Covid relief funds to buy a collectible Pokémon trading card for roughly $57,800 (around £43,900) has been jailed. Vinath Oudomsine, 31, applied for funding from a Covid support scheme on behalf of a fake company and received $85,000, most of which he spent o

Belfast-based law firm Tughans has announced the appointment of Julie Huddleston as a partner in its banking team. Ms Huddleston joins Tughans from DWF in Belfast, where she headed up the banking team, bringing 15 years' experience advising on finance and restructuring matters. She joins existing fi

The Law Society of Northern Ireland has paid tribute to Heather Semple, who passed away yesterday morning after 32 years' service as the Society's librarian and latterly as the head of its library and information service. Mrs Semple was diagnosed with "a very serious medical condition" shortly befor

Corporate law firm Eversheds Sutherland has become the latest international firm to announce the end of its operations in Russia. The firm expanded into Russia in 2017 and has around 50 staff across two offices in Moscow and St Petersburg, which will now close.

Maples and Calder, the Maples Group's law firm, has announced the promotion of three new partners and two new of counsel in Ireland. Eugene McCormick and Karole Cuddihy have been appointed as partners in the dispute resolution and insolvency practice, while Morgan Pierse has been appointed as a corp

The Public Interest Law Alliance (PILA) has announced the appointment of South African lawyer Shamika Dwarika as its new pro bono development officer. Ms Dwarika relocated to Ireland to join PILA, a project of legal rights group FLAC, after seven-and-a-half years as regional director of NGO ProBono.

The Senate has unanimously passed a bill to make lynching a federal hate crime after more than a century of attempts to do so. The Emmett Till Antilynching Act provides that the crime will be punishable by up to 30 years in prison.

A Spanish TV station has apologised after a quiz show asked contestants to guess the street value of a gram of cocaine. Atrapame Se Podes, or Catch Me if You Can, a popular show in Galicia, features topical questions and a prize pot of €25,000.

As the US passes a bill named for a young boy whose brutal racist murder shocked America and the wider world, ILN takes at look at the the case and the injustice that followed. On August 28, 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American boy from Chicago, was tortured and murdered by t

Judge Peter Smithwick, a former president of the District Court and chairman of the Smithwick Tribunal, has passed away. The Irish Times has published a full obituary. "The Co Kilkenny native, who was born in 1937, came from a family who are a prominent part of the landed gentry of the county. The f

Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has offered a formal apology to people accused of witchcraft between the 16th and 18th centuries. She told MSPs at Holyrood that it could legislate to pardon those who were convicted and in many cases executed.

Staff at ByrneWallace LLP have benefited from enhanced family-friendly benefits introduced in the past 12 months, the firm announced yesterday to coincide with International Women's Day. The firm has enhanced maternity and paternity leave, and introduced paid leave to support both men and women in t

Immigration barristers in Ireland have joined colleagues from across the European Union in offering pro bono legal assistance to Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion. The Immigration, Asylum & Citizenship Bar Association (IACBA) is coordinating and inviting practitioners to participate on a r

Addleshaw Goddard, which last week completed a merger with Eugene F Collins LLP, has announced the appointment of Eoghan Ó hArgáin, Neil Bourke and Stephen McLoughlin as partners in its Dublin office. The new appointments expand the firm's expertise in key areas of EU, competition and

Non-EEA doctors will be able to access a Stamp 4 permit after just two years of working in Ireland instead of the current five years under changes to working arrangements and immigration permissions. The move, which will benefit up to 1,800 doctors in the State, aims to reduce the administrative bur