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The Irish government has been urged to continue its inter-state case in the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) as campaigners said Troubles victims had been "betrayed" by the UK government. Northern Ireland’s Court of Appeal ruled last month that the controversial Northern Ireland Troubles

Browne Jacobson has appointed two new legal directors and a partner in a significant expansion of its Irish operations. Emma Middleton and Paul Tohill join as legal directors to establish the firm's real estate and construction practices in Ireland respectively.

More than eight in 10 of the top UK-headquartered law firms saw an increase in profit this year, a survey by PwC has found. Of the Top 100, 81 per cent reported increases in profit in the 2024 fiscal year compared to just 56 per cent last year, according to the Big Four firm's annual law firms' surv

Volkswagen Finance has been ordered by a UK regulator to pay a fine of nearly £5.4 million as well as over £21.5 million in redress to around 110,000 customers after failing to treat customers in financial difficulty fairly. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) found that Volkswagen Fin

An English politician has called for a "crackdown on spitting" in order to "Make Britain Vaguely Civilised Again". Neil O'Brien, a Conservative MP who previously advised prime minister Theresa May, set out his proposals for an "orderly and civilised society" in a blog post yesterday.

The Law Society of Ireland has published the provisional results of its 2024 Council election. Fiona McNulty, Rosemarie Loftus, Áine Hynes SC, Martin Lawlor, Maura Derivan, Brian McMullin, Stuart Gilhooly SC, Tony O’Sullivan, Graham Kenny, Garry Clarke, Cri

Ireland's new online safety code has been published and will begin to become binding on video-sharing platforms with their EU headquarters in Ireland from next month. The code introduces obligations on video-sharing platforms to protect people, especially children, from harmful video and associated

The Law Society of Northern Ireland has been recognised with an international human rights award for coming to the defence of a solicitor disparaged in the House of Commons. A statement issued by the Society last year called for an end to “attacks on lawyers” after Ian Paisley Jr, the DU

The Law Society of Northern Ireland has celebrated its 2024 Conveyancing Week as an outstanding success. Organised by the Law Society's conveyancing and property committee, the focus of the annual event this year was on providing support, building relationships and widening engagement through a seri

William Fry has been named Ireland's patent litigation firm of the year at the Global IP Awards 2024. The awards ceremony, which took place at St Pancras Renaissance Hotel in London on Thursday 17 October, brought together leading law firms and practitioners from around the world to celebrate achiev

A third-party car rental website used by Ryanair Car Hire and Booking.com has removed misleading information at the request of the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC). Consumer authorities in 10 EU member states and Norway, co-ordinated by the European Commission, checked 78 third

A former lord chief justice of England and Wales has lent his support to calls for prisoners serving indefinite jail terms to have their sentences reviewed. Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, who was the most senior judge in the jurisdiction between 2013 and 2017, worries that those imprisoned under the aboli

An airport has capped goodbye hugs at a maximum of three minutes long. New signage at the drop-off section outside Dunedin Airport in New Zealand coldly states: "Max hug time 3 minutes. For fonder farewells please use the car park."

Criminal barristers in Northern Ireland are to stage a one-day strike and begin to refuse serious cases in pursuit of an increase in legal aid fees. Following a ballot earlier this month, the Criminal Bar Association (CBA), which represents criminal barristers within the Bar of Northern Ireland, wil

Campaigners have welcomed a legislative milestone for Ireland's new hate crime bill. The Coalition Against Hate Crime, a group of 23 civil society groups representing communities commonly targeted by hate crime, spoke out following the passing in the Seanad yesterday of the Criminal Justice (Hate Of