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Belfast firm Phoenix Law and a legal adviser with the Children's Law Centre in Northern Ireland were among winners at the 2025 Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year (LALY) awards in London. The Legal Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG) in England and Wales organises the annual awards ceremony, now in its 23rd yea
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Specialist boutique employment law firm McInnes Dunne Murphy LLP has welcomed Feidhlim Mac Róibín as an associate. Mr Mac Róibín joins the firm from another boutique employment specialist firm, having previously trained and qualified in a top five firm.
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Human rights lawyer Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh has joined the University of Galway as an adjunct professor. Ms Ní Ghrálaigh, based at Matrix Chambers in London, specialises in international law, civil liberties, human rights, protest law and international criminal law.
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BHSM LLP has recruited solicitor Leanne Hill to its employment and benefits department. Ms Hill completed her training in a commercial law firm in Cork City and recently qualified as a solicitor in January 2025.
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Hannah Al-Qaryooti has joined Public Interest Litigation Support (PILS) as the non-profit’s legal support manager. An Oxford University law graduate, Ms Al-Qaryooti had previously worked with Safer Renting, a London-based tenants’ rights advocacy service, as a caseworker and team leader.
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Northern Ireland firm Cleaver Fulton Rankin has welcomed three new team members, including senior solicitor Clodagh Rafferty and solicitor Kaitlyn Berryman. Ms Rafferty has joined the firm's private client team, while Ms Berryman has joined the dispute resolution team following the completion of her
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Philip Lee has appointed Finola Igoe, Jean-Anne Young, Aoife McBennett and Jessica Gorman as of counsel. Ms Igoe and Ms Young are members of the firm's projects and construction team, while Ms McBennett and Ms Gorman are members of the media and entertainment team.
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Belfast firm Phoenix Law and a legal adviser with the Children's Law Centre in Northern Ireland were among winners at the 2025 Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year (LALY) awards in London. The Legal Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG) in England and Wales organises the annual awards ceremony, now in its 23rd yea
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Northern Ireland’s Court of Appeal has refused Hazel Stewart leave to appeal her life sentence for the murders of Trevor Buchanan and Lesley Howell by carbon monoxide poisoning in 1991. Delivering judgment for the Court of Appeal in June, Lady Chief Justice Siobhan Keegan remarked: “We r
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Northern Ireland firm Mills Selig has announced a new charity partnership with Women's Aid Federation NI.
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Legal proceedings have been issued against Disney in connection with a TV series which depicts the 1972 murder of Jean McConville. Belfast firm Phoenix Law is acting for prominent Irish republican Marian McGlinchey (née Price) in her defamation case over her Say Nothing, a historical drama re
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Hannah Al-Qaryooti has joined Public Interest Litigation Support (PILS) as the non-profit’s legal support manager. An Oxford University law graduate, Ms Al-Qaryooti had previously worked with Safer Renting, a London-based tenants’ rights advocacy service, as a caseworker and team leader.
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Human rights lawyer Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh has joined the University of Galway as an adjunct professor. Ms Ní Ghrálaigh, based at Matrix Chambers in London, specialises in international law, civil liberties, human rights, protest law and international criminal law.
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Former president Mary Robinson has been awarded an honorary doctorate of laws by the University of Strathclyde in Scotland.
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Four law students have completed the Bar of Ireland's inaugural internship programme. Greta Baronaite from ATU Letterkenny, Alvena Sharma from Trinity College Dublin, Lee Mac Cuinneagain from the University of Limerick and Michael White from University College Dublin took part in the two-week initia
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A Kurdish woman who came to Northern Ireland as a child fleeing the Syrian civil war has graduated with a law degree from Ulster University.
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Law students from Dublin City University, Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin have been elected to the national board of the European Law Students’ Association (ELSA) Ireland.
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It’s certainly been an eventful summer for partner Darragh Mackin at Belfast solicitors Phoenix Law. Many of the firm’s cases have been in the public eye, and probably none so much as the discrimination case successfully brought by Irish language rap group Kneecap against the UK governme
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Paddy Kelly’s energetic leadership of the Children’s Law Centre (CLC) in Northern Ireland has seen it assume a pivotal role in advancing the rights and best interests of children and young people. When Ms Kelly, its founder and CEO, steps down at the end of this month, the most important
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Ailish Finnerty has had only had some six weeks to become accustomed to her role as the new chair at Arthur Cox. She has, though, an air of calm assurance — the consequence of her history with the firm, one that stretches back to her becoming a trainee there after taking a BCL and LLM at UCC a
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Wherever there is an Irish diaspora — and where is there not? — there will be St Patrick’s Day celebrations. This was the case earlier this month at the Hyatt Regency hotel in London when the London Irish Lawyers Association (LILA) gathered for its third annual St Patrick’s D
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Even by the standards of the bewilderingly swift advances in the social media arena, TikTok is a phenomenon. Launched in 2016, the app began its dizzying ascent to become a giant with more than 1.04 billion monthly active users, a scale of growth that took Instagram and Facebook almost a decade to a
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