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Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has appointed Hazel Doyle as a partner in its asset management and investment funds (AMIF) practice in Dublin. Ms Doyle, who joins from Arthur Cox LLP, has more than a decade of experience in the funds industry, with her practice covering the full spectrum of adviso

Criminal barristers in Northern Ireland are to stage a one-day strike on Friday 17 November 2023 in an escalating dispute over delays in legal aid payments. The Criminal Bar Association (CBA) previously balloted members on a withdrawal of services in response to “unprecedented and worsening&rd

Ivor Fitzpatrick and Company Solicitors is very pleased to announce the appointment of Sandra Casey, previously a senior associate, as a litigation partner with the firm.

A first-of-its-kind digital will finding service has been launched in Ireland to help members of the public and solicitors locate the wills of deceased persons. Will Finder will enable single regional searches, or multiple searches across all of the State if needed, reducing time and costs associate

Retired solicitor John Robert Kirk has passed away. Mr Kirk worked with Belfast-based Cleaver Fulton Rankin Solicitors until his retirement in 2015.

Companies House has been given new powers to tackle fraudulent information on the company register under legislation which received royal assent yesterday. The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act introduces what the UK government calls "world-leading powers" to allow authorities to proacti

A company which tried to pay a roughly £20,000 settlement in coins weighing nearly three tonnes has been rebuked by a judge. The Colorado-based company delivered a custom-made metal box containing coins worth $23,500 (around £20,000) to the offices of a law firm representing a subcontrac

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Ailing Chinese rights lawyer Li Yuhan jailed for six-and-a-half years | Radio Free Asia

The Lady Chief Justice of Northern Ireland has condemned the appearance of masked men in the public gallery of a courtroom where a Belfast Crown Court trial was taking place as "not acceptable".

Artificial intelligence, access to justice and ethics in the legal profession are among the issues being examined by the two-day International Conference of Legal Regulators (ICLR) which opened this morning in Dublin. Ireland's Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) is hosting the 12th annual ev

A private member's bill restricting the use of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) to conceal sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace has been passed by Seanad Éireann. The Employment Equality (Amendment) (Non-Disclosure Agreements) Bill 2021 was first tabled by Senator Lynn Ruane

Matthew Kenny has been elected as president of the Dublin Solicitors Bar Association (DSBA) for the coming year. Mr Kenny, a partner in O'Sullivan Kenny Solicitors, was elected on Tuesday to succeed Susan Martin, under whom he served as vice-president.

The UK government has been urged in a new report to reform the law on universal jurisdiction to ensure that war criminals cannot evade justice. The Global Britain, Global Justice report published by REDRESS and the Clooney Foundation for Justice examines how the UK has faltered in its historical com

Humans have as much a right as wild animals to urinate in the sea, a German judge has ruled. In an unusually poetic judgment, a district judge in the northern German city of Lübeck overturned a €60 fine imposed on a man who relieved himself on the beach late at night during a sailing festi

Judge John O'Connor of the Circuit Court will join healthcare and finance professionals in addressing Ireland's first inter-sectoral and inter-disciplinary conference on adult safeguarding later this week. The Inaugural International Adult Safeguarding Conference at Trinity College Dublin will discu