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Barristers Jenny Cunningham BL and Taryn Graham BL have been elected as new co-chairs of the Young Bar Association.

Personal injury lawyer Liam Moloney has been re-elected to the board of governors of the American Association for Justice (AAJ) for a further three-year term. His election took place at the organisation's recent annual convention in Washington, D.C., which was held remotely for the first time due to

New legislation establishing perjury as a statutory offence will be enacted by the end of the year, Justice Minister Helen McEntee has said. The Perjury and Related Offences Bill 2018 was originally introduced as a private member's bill by Senator Pádraig Ó Céidigh but was subse

Workers in Northern Ireland who are laid off while furloughed will receive redundancy pay based on their normal wage under new laws being brought in next month. A spokesperson for the Department for the Economy (DfE) confirmed to Irish Legal News today that the changes being brought into effect in E

There is no clear legal basis for social welfare inspectors questioning passengers on certain flights out of Ireland as a blanket policy, the Data Protection Commission (DPC) has warned. The Department of Social Protection (DEASP) told the watchdog that customers boarding certain flights in recent m

Successful efforts to keep COVID-19 out of Irish prisons came at a "significant cost to the mental health and wellbeing of the people subject to special measures", a new report has found. The Office of the Inspector of Prisons (OIP), in conjunction with legal academics at Maynooth University, has pu

Asylum seekers' right to work is being undermined because they are denied access to driving licenses, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) has said. The rights watchdog made the remarks following a Dublin Circuit Court ruling which confirmed that a single mother living in a rural D

A new online application process for grants of probate and letters of administration is set to be rolled out from September. The Courts Service of Ireland has said it will "modernise and transform the current process, making it easier and more efficient to complete".

A software engineer has been arrested after allegedly hacking into his former employer's database in an attempt to get his job back. Vikesh Sharma, 35, was sacked from his job as a senior software engineer at a Delhi-based company earlier in the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Supreme Court has held that a ministerial finding that a marriage amounted to a marriage of convenience does not make it a legal nullity. Background

Family law issues have remained the dominant theme of calls to the Children's Rights Alliance helpline in its second year, revealing a "serious gap" in the family law system. The organisation established the helpline and free legal advice clinics in 2018 to ensure that all children have access to fr

Solicitor Billie Sparks has been named the new general secretary of the Labour Party. Ms Sparks has worked for the party since 2013 in roles such as women and equality officer and deputy general secretary, latterly working as the party's national organiser since 2016.

A&L Goodbody has ranked as the top M&A firm in Ireland by deal count in the latest edition of Mergermarket's Global and Regional M&A Report. The firm advised on nine deals worth $568 million in the first half of 2020, closely followed by Matheson, which advised on nine deals worth $405 m

Irish art publisher Hanna Fine Art has announced the donation of €7,500 to a number of Irish charities from the sale of the fine art print of artist Stephen McClean’s original painting of the Round Hall in Dublin’s Four Courts. “The Round Hall” was published in a highly-

A focus on improving statistics and meeting targets is having a negative impact on victims' and witnesses' experience of the criminal justice system, a new report has found. Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland (CJINI) has warned that an insufficient emphasis on the personal experiences of t