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UK firm Shoosmiths has announced the appointment of real estate lawyer Mark Blair as a partner in the firm's Belfast office. Mr Blair is well-known in the Northern Ireland property market and his appointment is a key hire in broadening the firm's skill base and profile in the region, Shoosmiths said

A new report assessing whether the lack of third-party litigation funding and class actions in Ireland is a barrier to litigation has been launched by Chief Justice Frank Clarke. International legal experts were welcomed to Dublin to launch the report from the EU Bar Association Ireland and the Iris

Joanne Ryan, associate at William Fry, examines a recent decision that answers a question that arose for practitioners from the Supreme Court judgment in Merck Sharp & Dohme. As my colleagues have discussed previously (here and here), the recent decision of the Supreme Court in Merck Sharp &

Belfast-based Tughans has been named Northern Ireland's busiest corporate law firm for a fifth year in a row. The firm topped the Experian M&A and Real Estate Advisor League Table after advising on 53 deals worth £164 million over the course of 2019.

Over 110 brave runners took on the challenge of A&L Goodbody's annual Airfinance 5km Run. The firm's aviation and transport finance team organised the event to raise money for Orbis International to support their work on preventing and treating avoidable blindness.

On the centenary of the Government of Ireland Act 1920, this piece of legislation will be recalled for effecting the partition of Ireland into Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland. What may be overlooked is that David Lloyd George’s Government of Ireland Act 1920 included a subsection which p

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. France: Stun grenade blamed for maiming dozens of Yellow Vests banned | The Telegraph

A suspected phone thief has been arrested after police allegedly found more than 30 mobile phones in his cycle shorts. Police recovered the phones after blocking the exits at a rock concert when dozens of people reported lost phones.

Senior Scottish advocate Michael Upton reflects on the UK's departure from the European Union. So Brexit is done.

Irish authorities are examining the situation of Chinese nationals in Ireland who are seeking to extend their visitor permissions because of the Coronavirus outbreak. Some Chinese nationals have had their travel home disrupted due to the virus, for instance because of commercial plane journeys to Ch

A 22-year-old man has been given a six-year sentence for the “single-punch” manslaughter of a vulnerable man in Newcastle, County Down. Mr Justice Adrian Colton followed the sentencing guidelines in R v Quinn. Two other men who witnessed the incident were sentenced for related offences,

A personal insolvency practitioner has been ordered to pay legal costs after providing misleading information about his client in the first ruling of its kind. Mr Justice Denis McDonald, sitting in the High Court, made a full costs order against practitioner Daniel Rule of McCambridge Duffy, The Iri

Only three people have been convicted of buying sex under legislation commenced nearly three years ago, according to a new report on the law. Family lawyer Dr Geoffrey Shannon has produced an interim report on the implementation of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017 for a working group of s

International law firm Pinsent Masons has been recognised as Northern Ireland's top employer for LGBT staff and one of the most LGBT-inclusive workplaces in the UK. The firm is ranked at number four in LGBT charity Stonewall's Top 100 Employers list, which recognises a dozen other law firms across t

First-time buyers are continuing to drive mortgage drawdown and approvals activity in Ireland, according to new figures. In the fourth quarter of 2019, there were 12,259 new mortgages worth €2,768 million drawn down, an increase of 1.2 per cent in volume and five per cent in value on the previo