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Trinity FLAC has appealed for student volunteers for a summer research project on technology and access to justice. The project, open to students from all years, alumni, Master's students and those on Erasmus, seeks to examine the potential use of IT in the legal sector to further social justice.

In the tenth in his series on jurisprudential primers, Benjamin Bestgen looks at how the law might handle cognitive enhancements as new drugs are developed and our perceptions change. The movie Limitless deals with a struggling author who is given a drug that vastly increases his cognitive abil

Correspondence between Queen Elizabeth II and her representative in Australia during his controversial dismissal of Australian prime minister Gough Whitlam in 1975 can be released to the public, judges have ruled. Three years after his Labor Party's narrow election victory, Mr Whitlam was removed fr

Former Attorney General for England and Wales Dominic Grieve QC will be a visiting professor in law at Goldsmiths, University of London, it has been announced. Throughout his career as a barrister and politician, Mr Grieve has worked at the intersection between the law and politics and taken a parti

A man who bought one of the world's most expensive cars, a Ferrari 250 GTO, is entitled to have its original gearbox, located years after the sale in a US workshop, a judge has ruled.

The High Court has denied an application to restrain the further prosecution of criminal charges pending against an applicant, in circumstances where he was a minor at the time of the alleged offences, on the basis of prosecutorial delay. Background

Law centres are facing dramatic increases in calls from workers concerned about their employment rights during the coronavirus pandemic. Community Law and Mediation (CLM), with law centres in Dublin and Limerick, has said it is "at capacity" after a 196 per cent year-on-year increase in consultation

A new mailbox has been set up to let lawyers speak with judges to assist with case progression in individual cases. The new system has been introduced as of yesterday following discussions between the Lord Chief Justice, Sir Declan Morgan, and leading members of the legal profession.

Northern Ireland's Planning Appeals Commission (PAC) has announced plans to pilot remote hearings in selected cases within the next four to six weeks. The announcement follows repeated calls from lawyers and the construction industry for Northern Ireland's planning system to catch up with the rest o

Global law firm Allen & Overy has won recognition for a major redesign of its Belfast office to promote agile working.

Our regular round-up of deals involving Irish law firms. Submit your deals to newsdesk@irishlegal.com. Arthur Cox has advised Flutter Entertainment on its successful share placing raising gross proceeds of £812.6 million.

Law student Eoin Forde has been named editor-in-chief of the next volume of the Trinity College Law Review. Mr Forde will be joined on the team for Volume XXIV of the prestigious student-edited law journal by the newly-selected co-managing editors, Hana Abú and Benjamin Conlon.

Eversheds Sutherland partner Matthew Howse explores what the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill means for businesses in Northern Ireland. There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen. This certainly seems the case in terms of Insolvency reforms. The UK Government’

Asylum seekers continue to face major barriers to entering employment more than three years after a landmark Supreme Court ruling on the right to work, the Irish Refugee Council has said. The absolute prohibition on employment for asylum seekers was found to be unconstitutional by Ireland's top cour

Ireland's gender recognition laws could be extended to children and non-binary people under proposals reportedly being discussed in government formation talks. A 15-page policy paper produced by Fine Gael recommends a number of reforms to the Gender Recognition Act 2015, including a reduction in the