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Munster lawyer Stephen Keogh, managing partner of Sellors LLP, has been elected president of Shannon Chamber. Mr Keogh, a commercial lawyer, spent five years with international law firm Eversheds Sutherland before returning to the Mid-West region in 2009.

Coroners in Northern Ireland should be allowed to investigate whether failures in the provision of personal protective equipment (PPE) have led to deaths, KRW LAW LLP has said. The Belfast-based human rights firm has written to the presiding coroner for Northern Ireland, Mrs Justice Siobhan Keegan,

Pinsent Masons is set to distribute its scheduled bonuses, The Lawyer reports. The move coincides with the firm's confirmation that it has implemented an 80 per cent working week for employees in its quieter practice areas, with a corresponding “fair and proportionate” decrease in pay.

A British member of the Court of Justice of the European Union is suing her judicial colleagues after they attempted to sack her on the basis the UK has left the EU, The Critic reports. Advocate General Eleanor Sharpston QC has launched a claim in another of the EU courts after the EU issued a decla

Jury trials could resume in England and Wales next month as the UK government comes under pressure from a growing backlog of cases to explore measures including a reduction in jurors. Justice Secretary Robert Buckland QC yesterday told BBC Radio Four's Today programme that he is considering "measure

The draft strategy for youth justice over the next six-year period has formally gone out to consultation. David Stanton, minister with responsibility for youth justice, today launched an online consultation on how state agencies, including the justice system, should engage with young people at risk

Justice ministers north and south of the border have spoken via teleconference to discuss the close co-operation between An Garda Síochána and the PSNI during the coronavirus pandemic. Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan and Justice Minister Naomi Long took part in the call yesterday eve

In the first of a weekly series of recommendations for lawyers staving off boredom in lockdown, Holohan Law senior partner Bill Holohan recommends John Carlin's book on the 1995 Rugby World Cup final. I think that it was the mediator in me that found Playing the Enemy by John Carlin such a great rea

Irish Legal News editor Connor Beaton assesses Mike Chinoy's new biography of Irish human rights lawyer Kevin Boyle. An accidental pioneer of international human rights law, Kevin Boyle would be furious if he was alive today – not only at prevailing injustices around the world, but also at con

An alleged drug dealer who called police after he was robbed of his merchandise is now facing an investigation. The 18-year-old man, from Vancouver Island in Canada, told officers that two men had "jumped" him and stolen pills and cash.

The Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland has dismissed an appeal related to the issue of a border poll on a united Ireland. Background

Courtroom benches are being measured to determine whether the three-judge Court of Appeal can physically sit again while maintaining social distancing. The criminal division of the three-judge court usually sits in courts 16 and 22 of the Criminal Courts of Justice (CCJ) building on Dublin’s P

Legacy inquests set to begin this year will be delayed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the presiding coroner has said. In a statement issued yesterday, Mrs Justice Siobhan Keegan said the "full impact of the pandemic and the associated containment measures on legacy inquests are not yet kno

There is no effective remedy under Irish law for complaints about excessive length of proceedings, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled. In today's Chamber judgment in the case of Keaney v Ireland, the court held unanimously that there had been a violation of Article 6 § 1 (righ

The Irish Society of Insolvency Practitioners (ISIP) has called for changes to company law to support firms through the coronavirus pandemic. Chairman Des Gibney, writing to Business Minister Heather Humphreys, said the 100-day deadline for examiners should be extended, The Irish Times reports.