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Mark Thompson Over two-thirds of Northern Ireland businesses are concerned about a potential breach of the new EU General Data Protection Regulation in the next year to year-and-a-half, a survey has found.

The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) has published new guidelines for employers and employees to seek to ensure that older workers are not discriminated against in workplaces in Ireland. The Guidelines on Retirement and Fixed-Term Contracts focus on the potential for discrimination

New figures suggest the number of law firm breaches in handling client money fell dramatically in England and Wales last year. The number of qualified accountant's reports to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) over breaches in handling client money fell by 28 per cent to 1,387, from 1,915 in

Over 70 property and financial professionals attended a breakfast seminar hosted by law firm Davidson McDonnell in Belfast.

A retired GP falsely accused by a “serial fantasist” of being involved in a paedophile ring has been told he will not be reimbursed £94,000 in legal costs he paid before the case collapsed, The Times reports. Dr Stephen Glascoe, 67, from Cardiff, spent most of his savings on his defence.

Bryan Bourke William Fry has been named International Firm of the Year by Legal Business, a monthly magazine for the global legal market.

Belfast-based Johnsons Solicitors have presented a £400 cheque to the Alzheimer's Society as part of the firm's year-round fundraising.

A woman from Belfast who is ordinarily resident in Northern Ireland, but who has Irish Citizenship, has lost an application for leave to apply for judicial review of the refusal to allow her to vote in the upcoming referendum on the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution. Finding that the woman had fa

A man who ransacked the Law Society of Ireland's offices last year, stealing two iPads and a laptop which he then sold to a shop, has been jailed for 18 months. Derek Hickey, 30, pleaded guilty to theft at the Law Society on Blackhall Place in Dublin on 17 July 2017.

A solicitor representing a victim of abuse in a Co Galway foster home has called for the urgent establishment of a commission of investigation. Ronan Hynes, partner at Keating Connolly Sellors Solicitors, told RTÉ's Drivetime that the inquiry by the National Review Panel is not sufficient and a sta

Cork solicitor Sinéad Kane has announced her plan to beat the world record for longest distance covered on a treadmill in 24 hours. Ms Kane (pictured), who is blind, already made history last year by becoming the first visually-impaired athlete to complete the World Marathon Challenge - seven marat

The High Court has today ruled part of the UK government’s flagship surveillance law, the Investigatory Powers Act, is unlawful – following a legal challenge from human rights campaigning organisation Liberty. In this first stage of its challenge to the law, Liberty focused on government powers

An alleged prolific serial killer and rapist was caught after US authorities compared DNA samples from his crime scenes to genetic profiles held by online genealogy websites. Police are confident that they have finally apprehended a notorious criminal known variously as the Golden State Killer, East

Criminal defence firms have been told to instruct solicitor advocates if they cannot find an appropriate barrister due to strike action. The Solicitors Regulation Authority’s guidance tells solicitors to contact "as many alternative chambers as possible" to determine if they are taking part in the

Is the law fair to asylum seekers? That is the question posed on the latest episode of BBC Radio 4’s Unreliable Evidence series. Host Clive Anderson asks his expert guests if the law makes it too hard for people to prove they have a legitimate claim to asylum.