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Specialist insurance industry law firm Horwich Farrelly has opened an office in Belfast under the leadership of newly reappointed partner Matthew Fitzpatrick. Mr Fitzpatrick returns to the UK-based firm, where he worked for over 10 years, after having spent time at two prominent Northern Ireland fir

Matheson has kicked off its first Matheson CoderDojo summer camp, designed for young innovators between the ages of 7 and 13 with a passion for and interest in coding. The camp began yesterday and will run until Friday at Matheson's Dublin headquarters.

The UK's decision to leave the European Union should not immediately affect the execution of a European Arrest Warrant (EAW) issued by it, according to an Advocate General of the European Court of Justice. Giving his view on a case concerning the extradition of a suspected criminal to the UK by

The PSNI is struggling to deal with "mountains of material" relating to legacy cases, Chief Constable George Hamilton has said. Mr Hamilton made the remarks while participating in a panel discussion at Féile an Phobail yesterday, the Belfast Telegraph reports.

Average house prices in Northern Ireland have risen by 6.2 per cent in the past year, according to the latest report from Ulster University. The latest Quarterly House Price Index report finds that the average price of properties sold in Northern Ireland in the second quarter of 2018 was £162,

A&L Goodbody is advising Cushman & Wakefield on its acquisition of Sherry FitzGerald's commercial property business. The global company is buying the remaining 80 per cent stake in the Irish property group's commercial property arm for an undisclosed sum, The Irish Times reports.

A man who gave evidence to the High Court as it sat in a nursing home for the first time ever has failed to convince the court that he should be allowed to leave, The Irish Times reports. The man, represented by Dublin firm KOD Lyons and supported by the group Sage Advocacy, was opposing an applicat

A new book providing an accessible analysis of the Irish child law system has been published by Clarus Press. Child Law in Ireland, authored by Dr Lydia Bracken, lecturer at University of Limerick School of Law, is now available for order.

A charity supporting offenders in Northern Ireland has said figures showing only two anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs) were handed out in a year with nearly 60,000 anti-social behaviour incidents highlight their ineffectiveness. The Northern Ireland Association for the Care and Resettlement of Of

KOD Lyons has handed over money to charities Enable Ireland and Pieta House after raising cash through the 175-kilometre Ring of Kerry charity cycle.

Accountancy giant Ernst & Young (EY) has bought a law firm to "reduce costs of routine legal activities" in a move that sees the Big Four further encroach into the legal market. EY announced that it has acquired Riverview Law, with Chris Price, EY global head of alliances – tax becomi

A man racked up over €40,000 in motoring fines in under four hours after racing through the streets in a hired Lamborghini. The man, believed to be a British and in his early 20s, rented the Huracan sports car while holidaying in Dubai, The Times reports.

A pharmaceutical company which was granted a patent now the subject of revocation proceedings in the European Patent Office and in the Irish courts, has had its application for a stay on ‘discovery, the carrying out of experiments or the other interlocutory steps that will require to be taken

A majority of in-house women lawyers in Ireland believe that quotas are necessary to address gender inequalities in the workplace, according to research by Mason Hayes & Curran. When don't knows are excluded, 57 per cent of those surveyed by the firm supported the introduction of quotas to fix t

Northern Ireland's Department of Justice has launched a consultation on extending the Unduly Lenient Sentence (ULS) scheme to money laundering, firearms and terrorist offences. Under the ULS scheme, the Director of Public Prosecutions can, if he considers that a sentence passed in the Crown Court is