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The Northern Ireland Office will soon launch an "awareness campaign" to set out how it plans to implement a law requiring abortion access and same-sex marriage to be introduced if devolution is not restored later this month. The Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Act 2019 requires the Northern I

A host of prominent human rights lawyers and activists will address the sixth annual Belfast International Homecoming Legal Symposium later this month. The event at Law Society House will address issues including freedom of speech and press freedom; human rights in the Supreme and European courts; t

LK Shields has announced the launch of a charity partnership with Peter McVerry Trust, a national housing and homelessness charity addressing the needs of people affected by homelessness and associated issues.

A well-respected chef arrested on suspicion of possessing cannabis has told police he was simply looking for "new flavours". Police say they found two cannabis plants, around two metres tall, at his home, as well as half a kilogram of Indian hemp.

The Northern Ireland Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal brought by the three applicants whose conjoined applications for judicial review were dismissed in the High Court earlier this month. Stating that it was not the Court’s task to evaluate the merits of a UK withdrawal from the EU with

Ronan Daly Jermyn has announced the appointment of regulatory specialist Brian Hunt as partner and head of the firm's new financial services regulatory practice, set up in anticipation of post-Brexit demand. Mr Hunt joins from Zurich Insurance plc, a Dublin-based non-life insurer with 12 branches ar

Property lawyer Katharine Hardie has been appointed head of Pinsent Masons’ Scottish and Northern Ireland operations. Ms Hardie takes over the role of chair of Scotland and Northern Ireland from Richard Masters, 29 years to the day since she joined the firm as a trainee lawyer in 1990. Sh

More than 3,200 sexual offences were reported to gardaí in the year to June, representing a 9.2 per cent increase on the previous year. Commenting on the figures, included in the latest CSO crime statistics, Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan said he welcomed the fact that "more victims a

A majority of legal staff at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) are suffering from trauma as a result of their work, according to an internal report. The report, authored by barrister and trauma expert Jennifer Bulbilia and seen by The Irish Times, was commissioned by the D

Ronan Daly Jermyn partner Darryl Broderick and solicitor Hilda Mannix examine two recent judgments clarifying the circumstances in which a loan purchase price would be disclosed to borrower litigants. In recent years, the sale of non-performing loan portfolios by banks and other credit institutions

International legal business DWF, with offices in Belfast and Dublin, has unveiled plans to increase the representation of women and ethnic minorities in senior leadership positions over the next three years. DWF has set targets focused on ensuring that a diverse group of people have access to senio

Matheson partners Pat English and Gráinne Callanan addressed the American Chamber of Commerce's (ACC) southern conference and presidents' dinner in Cork. The law firm sponsored the conference, which took place at University College Cork and featured three panel discussions on the topics of in

Senior officials from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) briefed Northern Ireland lawyers on how to prepare for Brexit at an event hosted in partnership with the Law Society of Northern Ireland. The event at Law Society House heard from Jenny Pickrell, head of EU exit and trade legal services policy, and

Italy's Constitutional Court has ruled it is not always a crime to assist in the death of someone experiencing "intolerable suffering". The country's parliament is now expected to debate the matter, which came to the fore during the trial in Milan of an activist who helped a tetraplegic man die in S

An Irish solicitor's Twitter thread about US railroad tracks went viral over the weekend, being shared nearly 50,000 times and garnering over 120,000 likes. Bill Holohan, partner at Holohan Lane, took to the platform to share a popular anecdote tracing the US standard railroad gauge back to Roman ti