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Law firms ByrneWallace and McCann FitzGerald are among firms which have been paid €270,000 by Government departments since 2014 for assistance handling protected disclosures. According to parliamentary written answers provided to Catherine Murphy TD, the Departments of Defence, Justice, Communi

The Department of Social Protection and the Department of Public Expenditure could be liable for fines under the GDPR over confusion about who controls the database underpinning the Public Services Card (PSC). Privacy experts have cast doubt in the data-sharing agreement struck by the two department

The Road Safety Authority (RSA) has appealed to tens of thousands of long-term learner permit holders to sit their driving test to make Ireland's roads safer. According to RSA figures, there are over 41,000 drivers on their fourth or subsequent learner permit, and over 8,600 who are on their tenth o

The number of humanist wedding ceremonies in Northern Ireland has risen dramatically, with three times as many humanist ceremonies expected to take place this year as were held last year. Humanist weddings have been legally valid and binding in Northern Ireland since last summer, when the Court of A

Criminology lecturer Dr Ian Marder and postgraduate student AnnMarie Maher of Maynooth University Department of Law consider the needs of children of imprisoned parents. The children of imprisoned parents suffer some of the worst unintended harms caused by criminal justice systems. It is estimated t

Lawyers for a man whose license conditions prevent him from crossing the border without written permission have launched judicial review proceedings in Belfast. Vincent Kelly, 34, was released from prison in May 2019 under strict license conditions which say he "shall not leave Northern Ireland save

Staff at William Fry emerged as the overall winners at an annual tennis competition hosted by The Irish Times and the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland (SCSI).

Nominations have opened for elections to the Law Society of Ireland Council ahead of the Society's AGM in November. The Council is the governing body of the Law Society and elects the president and vice-president every year.

Former William Fry partner June O'Connell is spearheading plans to open a new craft gin and pot still whiskey distillery in Co Kerry. Ms O'Connell joined William Fry in 1997 and was appointed as a partner in the corporate department in 2002, specialising in M&A and investment work.

Multinational company Johnson & Johnson has been ordered to pay $572 million (around €515 million) in connection with an opioid addiction crisis in the US state of Oklahoma. A case was brought against the pharmaceutical company by Mike Hunter, Attorney General of Oklahoma, under the state's

Poachers who broke into a popular game reserve to hunt rhinos are believed to have been killed and eaten by lions. The owner of Sibya Game Reserve in Kenton-on-Sea, a coastal town in South Africa, said very little of the men could be recovered, Newsweek reports.

The new Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) has blamed a Government department for the delay in rolling out its new complaints system, according to reports. The LSRA has said the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform did not approve the hiring of critical staff in time for roll-out this

The second Special Criminal Court, which was set up in 2016 to tackle a backlog of terrorism and organised crime cases, is set to be wound down. The operation of the second non-jury court will be suspended at the start of 2020, The Irish Times reports, owing to a decline in case numbers.

Landmark legislation on corruption which was brought into force last year does not meet the requirements of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, the Department of Justice has admitted. The Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Act 2018, which was commenced last July, repealed and replaced seven previo

An Garda Síochána has yet to address concerns raised last year over its recording of hate crimes, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) has warned. A CSO report in December 2018 suggested that at least 27 per cent of hate crimes were not correctly logged in the PULSE database in 2017.