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Mr Justice Frank Clarke The timetable for Ireland's referendum on the Eighth Amendment could be disrupted by the Supreme Court case on the meaning of "unborn" in the Constitution, The Irish Times reports.

Most UK law firms have not drawn up a Brexit business plan, according to a new Smith & Williamson survey of senior partners. Only 23 per cent of senior partners said that they had a business plan for dealing with Brexit, despite 60 per cent of more than 100 managing partners at firms in all UK j

Seamus Woulfe SC The Attorney General, Seamus Woulfe SC, will be the guest speaker at the Law Society of Ireland’s Parchment Ceremony this evening.

Three self-styled "paedophile hunters" have been ordered by Belfast Magistrates' Court to desist from further such activities while on bail, the Belfast Telegraph reports. George Keenan, 34, Richard Curtin, 32, and Tim Heron, 28, are facing charges of assault, false imprisonment and attempted intimi

A petition seeking listed status for one of legal London’s iconic venues has garnered 20,000 signatures, The Times reports. The freeholder of The India Club on the Strand wants to redevelop the building into a hotel but the move has led to an outcry from the club’s supporters who point to its hi

Clio, the world’s first and leading creator of cloud-based legal practice management software, now offers an Outlook 365 add-in to its global customer base, further meeting the needs of the modern legal professional. Clio is the first and only cloud-based practice management platform to offer a na

Eilis Barry The Oireachtas joint committee on justice and equality heard evidence this morning in support of a private member's bill to provide for the bringing of multi-party actions before the Irish courts.

A former member of An Garda Síochána whose case against the Commissioner of An Garda Síochána was described as one of the saddest to come before the Court of Appeal since it was established, has lost her appeal against the order of the High Court dismissing her claim at the conclusion of her evi

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan today officially opened the new €18.1 million Wexford Courthouse, the latest to be delivered under a series of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs).

Dublin firm KOD Lyons has said it is "delighted" with the level of engagement from legal practitioners at a seminar it hosted in conjunction with the Commission on the Future of Policing.

ByrneWallace has launched a nationwide series of seminars to assist accountancy firms and chartered accountant professionals prepare for the GDPR. The series of seminars, hosted in association with Chartered Accountants Ireland, will provide a general overview of the key changes and practical guidan

George Brady Matheson recently advised the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund on its multimillion euro equity investment in Mainstay Medical International plc.

https://twitter.com/AmnestyNI/status/965923708907999233 Representatives from Amnesty International NI and the Belfast-based NGO Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) today met Max Hill QC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation.

A new survey of English barristers has found they are even less satisfied with their working lives than NHS staff, the Law Society Gazette reports. The South Eastern Circuit and Criminal Bar Association (CBA) invited 2,000 members to complete surveys on quality of working life and the courts' flexib

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found that a Lithuanian lawyer convicted of bribery offences had not suffered a violation of his rights. Kęstas Ramanauskas is a Lithuanian national who was born in 1966 and lives in Kaišiadorys. He worked as a lawyer in his own private practice.