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A senior judge in England and Wales has been disciplined for bullying.

Chinese and Hong Kong government "reprisals" against the international legal team representing jailed publisher Jimmy Lai and his son, led by Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC, have been condemned by the UN Secretary-General and the US and UK governments. Ms Gallagher, the accomplished Irish human rights law

Police fined a motorist after spotting a large dog behind the wheel of a speeding car. Slovakian police have released a photo they say shows a "brown hunting dog smiling beautifully into the camera, obediently sitting behind the wheel of a Škoda and peering through the windshield".

Belfast-based Madden & Finucane Solicitors has promoted Lynn Day to director and head of the firm's expanding civil litigation department. Ms Day joined Madden & Finucane in 2011 and specialises in all aspects of civil litigation, with particular expertise in personal injury claims.

European law firm Fieldfisher has promoted 10 team members in Dublin to the role of director. The new directors are Aine Grogan, Amy McMahon, Aoife Stack, Conor Folan, James Roche, Joanna Bannon, Neil Cahill, Neil Dineen, Noreen McGovern and Rory Ferguson.

Ogier Leman is to drop the Leman part of its name 18 months after the merger between Dublin-based Leman Solicitors and international legal and professional services firm Ogier. Established in 2007, the 80-strong firm says it has seen its fastest growth in its 16-year history since the 2022 merger, w

Criminal barristers the length and breadth of the State are set to withdraw services on the first full day of the new legal year next week, with final arrangements now being put in place by the Council of The Bar of Ireland. The withdrawal of professional services by criminal barristers takes place

Barrister and Dublin district coroner emeritus Dr Brian Farrell has been appointed to chair the board advising the independent office overseeing the excavation of the mass child burial site at Tuam. The appointment of the advisory board follows the appointment in May of solicitor Daniel Mac Sweeney

More than two-thirds of people in Northern Ireland want the UK to remain party to the European Convention on Human Rights, according to a new poll commissioned by Amnesty International UK. The Amnesty poll, carried out by Savanta, shows that 68 per cent of people who were polled in Northern Ireland

The UK has been fined €32m (£28m) by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) over its use of yacht fuels used in the final days of EU membership. The court stated that the UK government had failed to prohibit the use of “marked fuel”, known in the UK as red diesel, &

UK-based employment law firm Lewis Silkin has more than doubled its Belfast footprint since expanding into Northern Ireland in 2021, the firm has announced. Lewis Silkin, which also has a presence south of the border, joined forces with employment law specialists Jones Cassidy Brett in 2021 before a

Gartlan Furey LLP has welcomed Paula Fallon to its private client team following a merger with Paula Fallon & Associates. Ms Fallon brings nearly four decades of experience in the law, having qualified in 1986 and run her own specialist practice in the area of wills and administration of estates

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A medicinal cannabis farm has seen its entire crop wiped out by an invading herd of sheep who ate around 300kg of cannabis, according to reports. Yannis Bourounis, owner of the farm in Almyros, Greece, told In.gr that the sheep ate everything that was left after Storm Daniel destroyed most of the pl

Concern has been raised that the District Court is "overworked" and could soon be "in gridlock" after new figures revealed a 39 per cent increase in civil matters coming before the court last year. The Courts Service annual report for 2022 reveals that 127,289 new cases came before the District Cour