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Employment solicitor Leanne McKeown of Rosemary Connolly Employment & Equality Solicitors examines the lessons of a ruling against a law firm accused of age and disability discrimination. In a stark reminder to respondents and their legal advisers on the importance of deadlines, the Employment T

Regulations giving the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland powers to direct the commissioning of abortion services have been approved by Westminster. The Abortion (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2021 were approved by MPs in a 431-89 vote on Tuesday and agreed by Lords yesterday afternoon.

Mishcon de Reya LLP has announced plans to explore floating on the London Stock Exchange by the end of the year. Mischon would become the seventh law firm to join the exchange since the law was changed to make that possible in 2007.

Northern Ireland's ministers for justice, health, communities, education and finance have published an action plan for year six of the seven-year domestic and sexual abuse strategy as well as a progress report for 2020/21. Year six of the strategy will include the commencement of the Domestic Abuse

A border guard service dog has received a national honour in Turkmenistan on its inaugural new state holiday. President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has dedicated April 19th to the alabay, a symbol of national pride, Sky News reports.

The High Court has delivered a further judgment in the landmark FBD case involving publicans claiming insurance cover for losses arising from the pandemic. In this second case, the court outlined that cover would be available for partial closures of the pubs’ premises due to the pandemic, rath

The draft heads of legislation providing for the "most wide-ranging and coherent reform of policing in a generation" have been published. Justice Minister Helen McEntee yesterday published the general scheme of the landmark Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill.

Children and families in direct provision are being failed due to a lack of sufficiently robust oversight mechanisms and a "culture of fear" around raising complaints, the Ombudsman for Children's Office (OCO) has said. Launching the report, ombudsman Dr Niall Muldoon said government plans to bring

An independent senator has proposed new legislation to limit the inappropriate use of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) in settlements between employers and employees. Senator Lynn Ruane is preparing a private member's bill which would amend the Employment Equality Act 1998 to enshrine employees' rig

The blanket ban on identifying children who were unlawfully killed will be lifted at the end of next week. Justice Minister Helen McEntee yesterday signed the commencement order for the Children (Amendment) Act 2021, which was signed into law on Monday.

Family lawyer Claire Edgar has welcomed an English court ruling emphasising the importance of domestic abuse training for the judiciary. The Court of Appeal in London last month handed down judgment in four appeals dealing with how allegations of domestic abuse and coercive and controlling behaviour

A solicitor has appeared in court in connection with an alleged €268,000 property registration fraud. Herbert Kilcline, a sole practitioner in Rathmines, denies eight offences relating to two Dublin properties, dating from between September 2016 and June 2018.

Outdoor pubs and restaurants which fail to take public health guidelines seriously following the reopening of the hospitality sector this Friday could lose their licences next year, a Belfast lawyer has warned. Christopher Bullock, an associate at O'Reilly Stewart Solicitors, has highlighted that ne

Unreliable witness testimony has been the biggest cause of miscarriages of justice over the past half-century, a new study suggests. The research also suggests that regulations governing the powers of police have been effective in reducing wrongful convictions caused by unreliable confessions.

The Law Society of Northern Ireland has called for British-Iranian woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to be released from prison in Iran. Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has already served five years in an Iranian prison for supposedly plotting to topple the Iranian government, was this week given a further