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Banks should be alert to the obstacles posed by the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009 in exercising their power of sale under housing loan mortgages, writes Andrew Richardson. As most mortgagee and receiver sales over the past decade related to mortgages executed before the economic dow

Committal proceedings against a former soldier charged with murder on Bloody Sunday began yesterday in Derry. Soldier F is accused of the murder of James Wray and William McKinney, on January 30th, 1972, when British troops fired on civil rights demonstrators, killing 13 people.

ByrneWallace LLP has announced it was adviser on 10 of the transactions shortlisted for the Finance Dublin Deal of the Year Awards 2021. Presented annually, the Finance Dublin Deals of the Year Awards recognise the best in class Irish corporate finance transactions and the leading deal makers and pr

The Employment Bar Association (EBA) is organising an online series, 'The world of work, post-Covid'. The first of the series commences this Thursday, 18 March at 4.30pm.

Scotland's chief prosecutor, the Lord Advocate, must not be permitted to “mark his own homework” over the botched Rangers fraud probe which has resulted in compensation of more than £20 million paid to the victims of the malicious prosecution, a court has heard. Roddy Dun

A candidate for political office in Japan is conducting his campaign dressed as the Joker. Yuusuke Kawai, who is hoping to become governor of Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, is running as a candidate for the Party to Make All of Chiba a Land of Dreams and Magic, SoraNews24 reports.

The High Court has refused an “innovative motion” to decide EU law points in a planning application despite the court already having quashed the decision on domestic law grounds. In Balscadden Road SAA Residents Association Ltd. v. An Bord Pleanála (No. 1) [2020] IEHC 586, the cou

The European Union is to take legal action today against the UK over its unilateral attempt to change the terms of the Northern Ireland Protocol, RTÉ News reports. The European Commission will issue legal proceedings in a letter to the UK government, after its decision earlier this month to u

Linklaters is planning to open an office in Dublin, The Sunday Times reports. The magic circle firm has 5,300 staff in 30 offices around the world and had revenues of £1.64 billion (€1.9 billion) last year.

The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has set out concerns that a new law being prepared to build online safety and strengthen media regulation, has no detail on the role or functions of a proposed new Online Safety Commissioner. The Commission has also set out its analysis that the current

A backlog of some 500 laws yet to be translated into Irish will now take until 2024 to finish, Houses of the Oireachtas officials have said. Sinn Féin TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh said that Irish had always been seen as an “afterthought”, but said the absence of translation raises

Arthur Cox partner Kevin Langford and associate Ailbhe Moloney explore a recent gender discrimination ruling. In December 2020 an Adjudication Officer of the Workplace Relations Commission (AO) issued his decision in the case of Yvonne O’Rourke v Minister for Defence ADJ-00007375 and DEC-E2020

Lord Neuberger has agreed to remain a judge of Hong Kong's top court for another three years, The Times reports. The former UK Supreme Court president's decision comes amid calls for the judges to step down over Beijing's attacks on democracy in the territory.

Employment law solicitor Richard Grogan takes a look at the different kinds of workplace stress. Workplace stress and burnout has always been relevant. Increasingly it is affecting executives, particularly senior executives, managers, professionals, and those in the medical profession particula

Four out of five last-minute legal claims brought by illegal immigrants in an attempt to avoid deportation are eventually rejected, according to the Home Office. An analysis of people detained since 2017 has found more than 70 per cent made new claims or legal appeals days before they were due to be