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The Law Society of Northern Ireland has celebrated its 2024 Conveyancing Week as an outstanding success. Organised by the Law Society's conveyancing and property committee, the focus of the annual event this year was on providing support, building relationships and widening engagement through a seri

William Fry has been named Ireland's patent litigation firm of the year at the Global IP Awards 2024. The awards ceremony, which took place at St Pancras Renaissance Hotel in London on Thursday 17 October, brought together leading law firms and practitioners from around the world to celebrate achiev

A third-party car rental website used by Ryanair Car Hire and Booking.com has removed misleading information at the request of the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC). Consumer authorities in 10 EU member states and Norway, co-ordinated by the European Commission, checked 78 third

A former lord chief justice of England and Wales has lent his support to calls for prisoners serving indefinite jail terms to have their sentences reviewed. Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, who was the most senior judge in the jurisdiction between 2013 and 2017, worries that those imprisoned under the aboli

An airport has capped goodbye hugs at a maximum of three minutes long. New signage at the drop-off section outside Dunedin Airport in New Zealand coldly states: "Max hug time 3 minutes. For fonder farewells please use the car park."

Criminal barristers in Northern Ireland are to stage a one-day strike and begin to refuse serious cases in pursuit of an increase in legal aid fees. Following a ballot earlier this month, the Criminal Bar Association (CBA), which represents criminal barristers within the Bar of Northern Ireland, wil

Campaigners have welcomed a legislative milestone for Ireland's new hate crime bill. The Coalition Against Hate Crime, a group of 23 civil society groups representing communities commonly targeted by hate crime, spoke out following the passing in the Seanad yesterday of the Criminal Justice (Hate Of

Retired Northern Ireland solicitor Patrick Donnelly has passed away. Mr Donnelly was admitted to the roll in 1965 after qualifying in Edwards & Co Solicitors. He was one of the founding members of Donnelly & Wall in 1967 before retiring from practice in 2002.

The Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) has successfully extradited a person to Northern Ireland to face charges relating to waste criminality for the first time. Michael Meegan, 57, from Co Louth, was yesterday sentenced to fines totalling £1,500 plus a £60 offender levy at

Ireland is to sign bilateral treaties with the United Arab Emirates on extradition and mutual legal assistance. Ministers today gave government approval for justice minister Helen McEntee to sign the treaties. Dáil approval will then be sought before the domestic procedures necessary to allow

The Family Courts Bill 2022 has been passed by the Seanad. Once enacted, the bill will provide for the establishment of family court divisions within the existing court structures: a Family High Court, a Family Circuit Court and a Family District Court.

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Israel slams UN probe on deliberate attacks to destroy Gaza’s health system

The Law Society of Ireland has expressed concern over the absence of practising solicitors and barristers on the new Judicial Appointments Commission. Justice minister Helen McEntee yesterday unveiled the membership of the Commission, which is to be established from 1 January 2025.

The Taliban has banned media outlets across large swathes of Afghanistan from broadcasting images of living beings. State media in the provinces of Takhar, Maidan Wardak and Kandahar have been told they can no longer air or publish images of people or animals, Newsweek reports.

Over 500 corporate counsel, risk and compliance professionals, executives and directors across a range of business sectors from corporate Ireland attended A&L Goodbody's annual Corporate Crime and Regulation Summit this morning in Croke Park.