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Legislation to provide for parental bereavement leave and pay has been introduced to the Northern Ireland Assembly. Under the bill, employees who suffer the loss of a child under the age of 18, or a stillbirth after 24 weeks of pregnancy, will have a statutory entitlement to two weeks' leave and, in

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Ronan Daly Jermyn head Richard Martin has been appointed as a non-executive director of Johnson & Perrott Motor Group. Mr Martin recently commenced his third term as managing partner of RDJ, a position he has held since 2012.

OUTLaw Network, which brings together LGBT+ people and allies in the Irish legal sector, has announced a series of free online events to mark Pride Month 2021.

Ronan Daly Jermyn has launched new scholarships aimed at supporting Black, Asian or minority ethnic law students at University College Cork. The Ronan Daly Jermyn Diversity Scholarship will provide successful students a scholarship of €5,000 as well as a work placement or internship with RDJ.

LGBT+ charities have launched an appeal against the Charity Commission's decision to award charitable status to an organisation they say seeks to "roll back legal protections for trans people". The LGB Alliance, which opposes "new ideologies conflating biological sex with the notion of gender identi

A five-step recipe for asparagus gratin was inadvertently published in the digital version of Belgium's official journal. The recipe, appearing in the middle of regulations on drug and medical device pricing, was spotted by a Belgian lawyer.

The Court of Appeal has ruled that the petitioners to an unsuccessful examinership application must pay 50 per cent of the opposing creditor’s costs in the proceedings. In reaching this conclusion, the court accepted that there was an important public interest aspect to the proceedings but tha

Mr Justice Donal O'Donnell has been named by ministers as the next Chief Justice of Ireland. The Belfast-born judge, who has sat on the Supreme Court since 2010, has been nominated by ministers to succeed Chief Justice Frank Clarke, who will retire on his 70th birthday in October.

Judge Anthony Collins has been nominated for appointment as an Advocate-General of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). The government's decision in April to nominate Advocate-General Gerard Hogan for appointment to the Supreme Court bench will create a vacancy on the CJEU.

Multinational law firm Pinsent Masons has announced the appointment of Lisa Connaughton as head of company secretarial operations in Dublin. Ms Connaughton, who joins from Maples Fiduciary Services and has over 15 years' company secretarial, compliance and governance experience, will boost the firm'

Housing assistance payment (HAP) will no longer be taken into account by the Legal Aid Board when calculating entitlement to civil legal aid. The immediate measure was agreed by ministers late last week and comes ahead of a broader review of the civil legal aid scheme.

The right to disconnect should be incorporated into Irish law through legislation, a new report has recommended. The 33-page report, from the Covid-19 Law and Human Rights Observatory at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), outlines the existing law and argues that it is insufficient to provide adequate an

Eversheds Sutherland Ireland has paid tribute to its founder Rory O'Donnell, who retired from practice yesterday. One of Ireland's best-known property lawyers, Mr O'Donnell founded O'Donnell Sweeney in 1967, which developed a relationship with international law firm Eversheds in the 2000s and later

OFX founding partner Frank O'Flynn has been conferred with honorary life membership at Cope Foundation's 62nd AGM. Mr O'Flynn was recognised by the non-profit organisation, which supports children and adults with intellectual disabilities and/or autism, for his decades of service as one of its board