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DWF has reported a 10.9 per cent increase in net revenue to £297.2 million, up from last year's figure of £268.1 million. Earnings before taxes at the firm decreased by 21.6 per cent while profits before tax fell by 32.4 per cent.

A Belfast law graduate has joined P.A. Duffy & Co Solicitors as a legal executive after returning home from working and studying in New York. Danielle Garrity spent the last year studying for the New York Bar Exam before moving back to Belfast, where she intends to take the entrance exam for the

The Ombudsman plans to write to ministers to fast-track an extension of his powers to investigate the complaints about the care and deaths of residents in nursing homes and hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic. Peter Tyndall has called for promised regulations to be introduced to extend the r

One of the UK government's most senior lawyers has become the latest in a line of civil servants to quit, seemingly over the government's U-turn on the Northern Ireland part of the Brexit deal. Sir Jonathan Jones QC has led the Government Legal Department (GLD) since 2014 (when it was known as TSol)

A&L Goodbody's Belfast office has advised on the redevelopment, letting and refinancing of Merchant Square, which represents the largest ever private sector office letting recorded in Northern Ireland. The law firm advised local property development firm Oakland Holdings in relation to the prime

Thanks to a fundraising effort by its Belfast office, DWF has gifted a four-year-old boy who has severe physical and learning difficulties a specialised bed. John Luke Faulkner suffers from a very rare neurological condition called Angelman Syndrome which means he cannot stand, walk, or talk. H

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has imposed penalties on Amazon for the failure to provide complete responses to two sets of statutory information requests in regards to the Amazon/Deliveroo merger investigation. The investigation was into the acquisition by Amazon of certain rights and

A man has been slapped with a four-figure fine after stealing sand from a Sardinian beach. The man, who was not been named by the Italian island's authorities, was caught at the airport with a bottle containing around two kilograms of sand.

Women solicitors have been urged to apply for recognition as senior counsel after just two women were named among the first 17 solicitors to receive the honour. Solicitors Áine Hynes and Helen Noble are set to become the first women solicitors with the right to use the title after their appli

Fianna Fáil TD James Lawless has been named as the chair of the new Oireachtas justice committee. A graduate of the King's Inns, Mr Lawless is a qualified barrister and has served as the TD for Kildare North since 2016.

The body overseeing implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has given the UK government a final deadline by which it must provide details of its proposals to deal with the legacy of the conflict in Northern Ireland. The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministe

The latest annual report from the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre (DRCC) shows a six per cent rise in people contacting its national helpline for support from 2018 to 2019. There were a total of 14,159 contacts to the helpline in 2019 and the number of individuals seeking therapy and counse

The Department of Justice has revealed that the Northern Ireland Prison Service has had its first positive COVID-19 test. A man remanded into custody to Maghaberry Prison on Thursday 3 September tested positive for the virus.

An asylum seeker who struggled with homesickness, depression and the challenges of living in Direct Provision has accepted a scholarship to study law at University College Dublin (UCD). Altamash Shaikh, 21, who arrived in Ireland from Mumbai, India at the age of 17, told Irish Legal News that comple

The time suspects charged with serious crimes can be held in custody before being brought to trial has been extended in England by nearly a third, from 182 to 238 days. The controversial change was announced by Justice Secretary Robert Buckland QC under "temporary legislation".