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A centuries-old ban on the use of the Irish language in the Northern Ireland courts will be repealed under language legislation introduced to Westminster today. The Identity and Language (Northern Ireland) Bill will grant official status to the Irish language as part of a package of measures to prom

Newtownards solicitor Charles E. Stewart, director at Stewarts Solicitors, has passed away following a long illness. Mr Stewart qualified as a solicitor in 1972. Less than two years later, he took over the legal practice run by his father and founded by his great-grandfather in 1902.

Dublin-based commercial law firm Leman Solicitors LLP has become Ogier Leman after joining forces with international law firm Ogier earlier this year. The combined firm offers services to Irish clients across corporate, real estate, dispute resolution and employment law, with an international networ

Dentons has extended its flexible working trial until the end of next year, The Lawyer reports. The firm's policy, called You Choose, gives partners and staff the freedom to decide where they want to work.

Ministers have agreed to a further 12-month renewal of the legislation underpinning the prosecution of terrorism and organised crime offences in the non-jury Special Criminal Court. The long-term future of the laws are currently being considered by an independent review group headed by Mr Justice Mi

Draft legislation published today by the UK's justice secretary Dominic Raab will pave the way for the first ever "Victims Law" in England and Wales. The Victims Bill will see complainants’ views sought at regular points during their case, with greater accountability placed on agencies such as

Digital driving licences used by millions of Australians are remarkably easy to falsify without detection, researchers have found. Since 2019, motorists in New South Wales (NSW) have been able to use a smartphone app to prove their identity to police or when buying alcohol in shops and restaurants,

A&L Goodbody LLP (ALG) has appointed Enda O'Keeffe as a partner in the firm's construction and engineering group. Mr O'Keeffe is an expert in the avoidance, management and resolution of construction disputes. He is a trusted commercial advisor to a number of top-tier entities in the construction

Government plans to exclude representatives of the legal professions from the proposed Judicial Appointments Commission will have "an extraordinary negative impact", the Law Society of Ireland has said. Responding to the recent publication of the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill, Law Society pr

Over 200 members of the legal profession in Northern Ireland joined colleagues for the return of the Legal Walk/Run through Belfast city centre in aid of Leukaemia & Lymphoma NI.

More than 35 trainees in Dublin-based William Fry LLP and Belfast-based Tughans this month took part in a joint learning programme in Dublin. Hosted at William Fry's offices, the inaugural event saw managing partners Owen O'Sullivan and Patrick Brown – of William Fry and Tughans respectively &

The new Northern Ireland Assembly should incorporate the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into domestic law as a matter of urgency, the Children's Law Centre (CLC) has said. The law centre, founded 25 years ago on the principles enshrined in the UNCRC, said the rights of children in

The UK's Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Clearview AI Inc £7,552,800 for using images of people in the UK, and elsewhere, that were collected from the web and social media to create a global online database that could be used for facial recognition. The ICO has also iss

Criminal solicitors in London are to refuse low-paid cases this week in protest at legal aid rates. More than 100 solicitors have voted to stop representing people accused of assaults and burglaries on medical workers from tomorrow.

A local politician has resigned on the basis he cannot work amid allegations he is secretly the artist Banksy. William Gannon, a councillor in the south-western Welsh town of Pembroke Dock, gave the bizarre reason for his immediate resignation yesterday, The National reports.