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Corporate law firm A&L Goodbody (ALG) has named social enterprise and wellbeing charity Inspire as its new charity partner in Northern Ireland. ALG, which employs around 120 lawyers and business support professionals in Belfast, will support Inspire through volunteering, pro bono legal advice an

New legislation improving governance and tightening regulation in the greyhound racing sector has come into effect. Agriculture Minister Charlie McConalogue has commenced certain sections of the Greyhound Racing Act 2019, relating to the Welfare of Greyhounds Act 2011 and the Animal Health and Welfa

Judges are to be trained to spot the signs of dementia in defendants amid an increase in the number of citizens finding themselves in court for the first time over petty crimes. Solicitor Mark Hatzer, 53, who is also a deputy district judge, has created a course for judges to aid them in identifying

A prisoner who complained of intolerable pain was found to have four phones lodged in his rectum. The man, imprisoned in the Indian city of Jodhpur in Rajasthan, who had been jailed in a case of an 'unnatural offence', was rushed to hospital, where the discovery was made.

The High Court has dismissed the HSE’s application to set aside an Order renewing a personal injuries summons. Background

Dr Laura Cahillane, lecturer in constitutional law at the University of Limerick, considers the Denham report. The report of the inquiry carried out by former Chief Justice Susan Denham into the conduct of Mr Justice Woulfe in attending the golfgate dinner was published yesterday. The report conclud

Ireland has yet to introduce an effective remedy for people who have suffered from excessively long civil and criminal proceedings nearly two decades after a European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruling. The Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers, which is responsible for supervising the execut

Eugene McCague, former managing partner and chairman of Arthur Cox, has been named by the Alzheimer Society of Ireland as the new chair of its board of directors. Mr McCague, who has served on the board since 2018, retired as a partner with Arthur Cox in 2017, having worked with the firm for more th

Former justice minister Charlie Flanagan has been rebuked by lawyers and campaigners after complaining to RTÉ over its broadcast of a documentary exploring state collusion with loyalists during the Troubles. Unquiet Graves, which was released in 2018 but aired by RTÉ One for the first

Conor Fottrell, partner at Mason Hayes & Curran LLP, considers the key issues in reporting childcare cases in the media. There was significant public reaction recently following a report which appeared in national newspapers arising from an application under the Childcare Act brought before the

The president of the UK Supreme Court has paid tribute to Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore in a special video to mark his retirement from the bench. Lord Kerr, a former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and one of the inaugural members of the UKSC on its creation in 2009, retired on Wednesday.

A solicitor in his 40s has lost a legal battle against his wealthy parents' decision to stop financially supporting him. The unnamed man, a 41-year-old who holds a Master's degree and is qualified to practice as a solicitor, has been unemployed since 2011.

Mr Justice Séamus Woulfe should not have attended a controversial Oireachtas Golf Society dinner but broke no laws and his resignation from the Supreme Court bench would be "unjust and disproportionate", former chief justice Susan Denham has said. In a statement yesterday afternoon, shortly a

The High Court, in what it described as the first written judgment on the suspension of pharmacists under the Pharmacy Act 2007 s.45, has suspended a pharmacist from practice. Background

Retired judge Mr Justice John Hedigan has been appointed to make decisions on whether or not to disclose information relied upon in citizenship applications refused because of national security concerns. Mr Justice Hedigan, who retired from the Court of Appeal two years ago, will serve for up to thr