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Ronan Daly Jermyn partner Darryl Broderick and trainee solicitor Sinéad Harrington examine the Irish courts’ general reluctance to grant an extension of the one-year limitation period in defamation cases. In a previous insight here, RDJ examined the 2018 case of Nóirín O&r

Prison healthcare workers are set to receive a £1,300 pay boost in recognition of their "vital work". The annual "environmental allowance" will be paid into salaries by July 2020, subject to necessary business case approval.

Laura Banks, solicitor at Francis Hanna & Co, highlights ongoing inequality in the bereavement benefits system. One of the most encouraging aspects of the government's response to the pandemic has been how quickly measures have been put in place and laws have been passed in order to support peop

Ronan Daly Jermyn has provided pro bono legal counsel to a campaign to raise funds for vulnerable women and children who are suffering as a result of self-isolation. The firm advised Creatives against COVID-19, which calls on the creative industry to create posters of hope, optimism, resilience, all

The Roman jurist Gaius has been invoked in a UK legal case involving the rights of anglers to fish next to the M6. The case looked at whether Clear Water Fisheries (CWF), owner of lakes created in voids left in the wake of the construction of the M6, was entitled to fish bought by Borwick Developmen

A man has been charged with trespassing after being caught camping on a closed Disney island. Richard McGuire, 42, said he didn't realise the "tropical paradise" was a part of Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida.

Two new associates have joined Arthur Cox's litigation and dispute resolution team in Belfast. Kristina Cunningham joins the firm from a high-profile personal injury practice, while Tomás Corrigan has joined the Belfast team from the firm's Dublin office.

Sir Declan Morgan, the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, has been ruled out as a candidate for the UK Supreme Court seat to be vacated by Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore on his retirement in September. Lord Kerr is the only justice with knowledge of and experience of practice in the law of Northern Ir

Munster lawyer Stephen Keogh, managing partner of Sellors LLP, has been elected president of Shannon Chamber. Mr Keogh, a commercial lawyer, spent five years with international law firm Eversheds Sutherland before returning to the Mid-West region in 2009.

Coroners in Northern Ireland should be allowed to investigate whether failures in the provision of personal protective equipment (PPE) have led to deaths, KRW LAW LLP has said. The Belfast-based human rights firm has written to the presiding coroner for Northern Ireland, Mrs Justice Siobhan Keegan,

Pinsent Masons is set to distribute its scheduled bonuses, The Lawyer reports. The move coincides with the firm's confirmation that it has implemented an 80 per cent working week for employees in its quieter practice areas, with a corresponding “fair and proportionate” decrease in pay.

A British member of the Court of Justice of the European Union is suing her judicial colleagues after they attempted to sack her on the basis the UK has left the EU, The Critic reports. Advocate General Eleanor Sharpston QC has launched a claim in another of the EU courts after the EU issued a decla

Jury trials could resume in England and Wales next month as the UK government comes under pressure from a growing backlog of cases to explore measures including a reduction in jurors. Justice Secretary Robert Buckland QC yesterday told BBC Radio Four's Today programme that he is considering "measure

The draft strategy for youth justice over the next six-year period has formally gone out to consultation. David Stanton, minister with responsibility for youth justice, today launched an online consultation on how state agencies, including the justice system, should engage with young people at risk

In the first of a weekly series of recommendations for lawyers staving off boredom in lockdown, Holohan Law senior partner Bill Holohan recommends John Carlin's book on the 1995 Rugby World Cup final. I think that it was the mediator in me that found Playing the Enemy by John Carlin such a great rea