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Dungannon solicitor Edward Orr has passed away, the Law Society of Northern Ireland has announced. Mr Orr was admitted to the roll of solicitors in November 1961, later becoming a partner at Simmons McLaughlin & Orr. He retired as a consultant in 2011.

City dwellers who relocate to rural France will not be able to complain about the sound of church bells or the smell of manure under a new law. A bill to restrict the ability of urban incomers to take court action over "a little nuisance" has now cleared both houses of the French parliament, The Tim

The Court of Appeal has upheld a defendant’s appeal in part and remitted summary proceedings to the High Court to allow a bank to amend its summons with proper particulars of the debt, in line with the Supreme Court ruling in Bank of Ireland Mortgage Bank v. O’Malley [2019] IESC 84. Howe

Commercial law firm Philip Lee has announced the appointment of Marie Kinsella as head of its healthcare group. Ms Kinsella, who joined the firm as a partner a year ago, will lead a team with particular expertise in healthcare litigation and risk management, elder, disability and mental health

Global legal business DWF has promoted Belfast lawyers David McNeice and Andrew Lightburn to partner and director respectively. Mr McNeice has led the firm's construction team in Belfast for around a year, while Mr Lightburn now leads its employment team.

Preliminary trial hearings will be introduced in Irish law for the first time by the summer under government plans announced today. The Criminal Procedure Bill 2021 will implement a recommendation raised in successive reports into the conduct of criminal trials in the State.

Mr Justice Séamus Woulfe is set to hear Supreme Court cases for the first time next month following the row over his attendance at a controversial dinner during the Covid-19 pandemic. According to the legal diary published by the Courts Service yesterday, Mr Justice Woulfe will sit on Thursda

Scottish lawyers have voted to follow their Irish counterparts in dropping the use of "Dear Sirs" as a salutation in formal letters and emails, a new survey has revealed. The Law Society of Ireland last year announced it would "lead the way in discontinuing the use of this outdated greeting".

Ireland's human rights watchdog has urged the Supreme Court to strike down the law on revocation of citizenship in its entirety. Judges are continuing to consider what declaration to make following their ruling last October that the procedure set out under section 19 of the Irish Nationality and Cit

Legislation providing for parental bereavement leave and pay will be brought to the Northern Ireland Assembly following the completion of a consultation. Economy Minister Diane Dodds has published her Department's assessment and response to the two-month consultation, which closed in August.

Limavady solicitor David Brewster has passed away at the age of 56. Mr Brewster qualified as a solicitor in September 1988 and was well known as principal of DR Brewster Solicitors.

A peer has predicted that the Chinese authorities will sack the British judges who sit on Hong Kong's highest court amid the withdrawal of a barrister who was prosecuting the region's leading pro-democracy activists. Lord Garnier QC, a former Conservative solicitor-general, told The Times that he th

Egyptian police have arrested a woman who made "indecent" cupcakes with penis-shaped frosting. Photos of the controversial cakes, some of which had frosting shaped like buttocks and underwear, went viral on social media.

The High Court has found that a couple have established that there is a fair question to be tried as to the correct interpretation of a charge over their lands. Mr Justice Senan Allen heard an application by the registered owners of lands for an interlocutory injunction restraining the registered ow

A&L Goodbody (ALG) has announced the appointment of 10 new partners, one new of counsel and 23 new associates across its Dublin and Belfast offices.