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Belfast firm Millar McCall Wylie has announced the appointment of employment solicitor David Mitchell following a period of significant growth. The appointment will see Mr Mitchell, who qualified as a solicitor in 2014, advising and representing both employees and employers alongside employment part

Limerick solicitor Kevin Doughan passed away suddenly on Tuesday at the age of 43. Mr Doughan was an associate solicitor at the Limerick office of Holmes O'Malley Sexton Solicitors, which he joined in 2014 after practising in Dublin for over a decade.

The Abhaile scheme to help people in home mortgage arrears will be extended for a further three years, Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan and Social Protection Minister Regina Doherty have announced. The scheme was set up in 2016 and has so far provided financial advice and negotiation support to ove

There remains an opportunity for Northern Ireland to take forward long-awaited domestic abuse reforms after a Westminster setback by working to restore devolution, former justice minister Claire Sugden has told Irish Legal News. The UK Government announced earlier this summer that its Domestic Abuse

Life sentence prisoners in Ireland serve an average of 17-and-a-half years in custody, according to the latest figures from the Parole Board. The Parole Board reviewed 122 prisoners over the course of 2018 and recommended seven long-sentence prisoners for reviewable temporary release, according to i

The PSNI will attempt to appeal a landmark ruling on holiday pay directly to the UK Supreme Court, according to reports. The Court of Appeal in Belfast ruled in June that PSNI officers can pursue claims for holiday pay from the date of commencement of the Working Time Regulations (NI) 1998, and are

Downing Street was yesterday forced to repudiate comments made by a Number 10 insider questioning the impartiality of Scotland's judiciary in the wake of a landmark ruling that the Prime Minister's advice to the Queen to prorogue parliament was unlawful. The Inner House of the Court of Session in Ed

The High Court bench that heard the Miller case against prorogation was essentially a constitutional court, formed without any democratic debate, an academic has said. In a letter to The Times, Professor David Campbell, of Lancaster University Law School, said of the court: "However it is styled, th

A court has ruled that an employee who died engaged in amorous congress while on a business trip was the victim of a workplace accident. The technician had been sent to Loiret in north west France and ended up sleeping with a "complete stranger".

A woman who was made redundant two weeks after she informed her employer of her pregnancy, has been awarded €55,000 in the Workplace Relations Commission. Finding that the company had failed to establish that there was no link between the woman’s pregnancy and her redundancy, Adjudication

Global law firm Walkers has announced the promotion of Eimear Keane, Ian McNamee, Niall Esler and Paddy Rath to partners in Ireland. Ms Keane has been appointed as a partner in investment funds and Mr Esler has been appointed as a partner in the regulatory and risk advisory team, while Mr McNamee an

Belfast firm Larkin Cassidy Solicitors has announced the promotion of Aoife Clayton to associate. Ms Clayton, a graduate of University College Dublin and Queen's University Belfast, joined the firm in 2012.

The Prime Minister’s advice to HM the Queen that the United Kingdom Parliament should be prorogued for five weeks in the run up to Brexit was “unlawful”, Scotland's highest civil court has ruled in a judgment whose full version will be published on Friday. Judges in the Inner House

Maynooth University Law Department has announced the appointment of Dr Lynsey Black as a criminology lecturer. Dr Black researches in the areas of gender and punishment, the death penalty, and historical criminology.

Prisoners are waiting up to two years to be admitted to the Central Mental Hospital after being assessed by psychiatrists as needing to be admitted, according to new figures. Records released to The Irish Times under Freedom of Information legislation show that 16 men and three women were trans