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A letter signed by dozens of legal professionals and printed by The Irish Times seeks to "clarify some of the likely legal consequences" of a vote to repeal the Eighth Amendment. The letter has been signed by 61 people, among them senior academics in law and medicine, solicitors and barristers.

Brexit has highlighted the stark divide between how existing devolution arrangements are interpreted in Westminster and Whitehall, and how they are interpreted in Cardiff and Edinburgh and has largely silenced Belfast’s voice in discussions of devolution after Brexit, according to constitutional e

Brian McCloskey Matheson has advised a UK-based private equity fund on its acquisition of an Irish logistics business.

Franz Friedrich "Fritz" Grünbaum Two artworks belonging to an Austrian-Jewish songwriter that were confiscated by the Nazis have been returned to his heirs, CNN reports.

Staff and management at Cork law firm Comyn Kelleher Tobin have raised €1,500 for the Cork University Hospital Charity.

The UCD Student Legal Service (UCD SLS) has presented a cheque for over €6,000 to St Vincent de Paul.

A man who was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for deception involving a vulnerable woman who was swindled out of €90,000 has lost an appeal against the severity of his sentence. Finding that the sentencing judge had not erred in fixing a headline sentence of 4.5 years where the maximum sent

Matheson has announced the appointment of seven new partners across a range of departments, bringing its partner count to 84.

More than 1,600 cases have been brought before the Court of Justice and the General Court of the EU for the second year in a row. A total of 1,656 cases were brought before the two courts in 2017 and 1,594 cases were closed.

Labour Senator Ivana Bacik Draft legislation to compel Irish companies to publish their gender pay gap should be implemented in the wake of similar legislation in the UK, Labour Senator Ivana Bacik has said.

The UK's top 100 law firms achieved fee income growth of 7.7 per cent in the quarter ending 31 January 2018 compared with the same period last year, according to the latest Quarterly Legal Sector Survey by Deloitte. Higher revenues this quarter have been driven by average increases in fee earner hea

Christian Donagh Matheson has advised on the first issuance and listing of a Sukuk bond that complies with the Sharia financing provisions of Irish tax law.

An online travel agent has been ordered by the French courts to stop selling Ryanair tickets without the Irish airline's permission. The Tribunal de Commerce de Paris (Commercial Court of Paris) said the offending company, Lastminute, was engaging in "parasitism".

A man who was arrested and convicted of using symbols of unconstitutional organisations after he posted a photo of SS chief Heinrich Himmler wearing a swastika armband on his blog in 2014 has failed in his appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. The applicant, Hans Burkhard Nix, has a blog on

President Erdogan Leaders of legal professions across Europe have called on Turkey to release more than 100 lawyers who were jailed in the wake of a failed coup against President Erdogan in 2016, The Brief reports.