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Dechert LLP has announced the appointment of Ciara O'Leary as a partner in Dublin, its second partner hire in the Irish capital this year. Her appointment to the firm's global funds practice group follows the appointment in January of Carol Widger as managing partner in Ireland.

The Irish Prison Service (IPS) has set out its strategic plan for the next three years, with a strong focus on improvements to transparency and governance. The strategy has been built around five pillars: staff support; prisoner support; safe and secure custody; the prison estate; and governance.

The management board of the new Law Society Mediation Services (LSMS) has met for the first time.

Four young Irish musicians have joined Eversheds Sutherland's Accelerator Academy, benefiting from a two-year programme of professional development, including financial assistance to support travel to masterclasses and competitions.

Strict data protection laws are drawing medical research "to a halt", according to an umbrella group representing health research charities. Avril Kennan, chief executive of Health Research Charities Ireland (HRCI), told a conference that researchers are concerned by requirements to re-establish con

The number of judges at the General Court of the European Union will increase next week when the court welcomes seven additional judges. The swearing into office of the seven new judges on Thursday 26 September will mark the third and final stage of European judicial reforms approved in 2015.

US President Donald Trump has said the cost of running Guantanamo Bay is "crazy", following a New York Times report that estimated the bill for the prison camp at $13 million per detainee per year. Trump told reporters: "I think it's crazy. It costs a fortune to operate." He added that his administr

On 10 September 1831, Jerimiah O’Donovan Rossa was born in Reenascreena – a townland nestled between the villages of Leap and Rosscarbery in West Cork. Jerimiah was the second of four children, and his parents were tenant farmers. Like so many Irish families, the O’Donovan’s

A Crown Court case collapsed after a woman accidentally joined the jury, The Telegraph reports. Judge Jonathan Seely at Chelmsford Crown Court said he had never seen anything like it in his career.

The PSNI must carry out a criminal investigation into the treatment in custody of the "Hooded Men" in 1971, the Court of Appeal in Belfast has ruled. In their majority ruling, appeal judges added that the treatment of applicant Francis McGuigan and fellow detainee Seán McKenna "would, if it o

The murder of Dutch lawyer Derk Wiersum has been condemned as "an unacceptable attack on the legal profession" by the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE). Mr Wiersum, 44, was the lawyer for a key witness in the prosecution of alleged gangsters accused of committing five murders betwee

The Provincial of the Oblate Fathers of Ireland has been granted an order dismissing personal injury proceedings brought against him, in which a man who alleged he had suffered sexual abuse by an Oblate priest in the 1950s sought to hold him vicariously liable for the priests actions. Dismissing the

LK Shields has announced the promotion of Peter O'Reilly to partner in the firm's commercial property team.

The UK government has said it may seek to prorogue Parliament again if the Supreme Court rules against it in the ongoing Brexit cases. A written submission explaining what the government would do if it loses the litigation has been published.

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has reiterated its call for the Government to comply with the legal directions of the Data Protection Commission (DPC) on the Public Services Card (PSC) scheme. Responding to the publication of the DPC's full report on Tuesday night, the civil liberties g