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A record €1.2 billion fine is to be imposed on Facebook owner Meta following GDPR breaches related to personal data transfers between the EU/EEA and the US.

Solicitor Orla Crowe has joined the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI) as its new director of fitness to practise. Ms Crowe is a solicitor with over 11 years of professional experience. She previously worked in the health and social care department of law firm ByrneWallace, where she spec

Specialist employment law practice CC Solicitors has appointed Bernadette Daly as a partner. Prior to joining the firm, Ms Day spent 15 years as in-house legal counsel with a professional services firm in Dublin, where she provided internal legal support on all aspects of employment law.

Co Antrim firm MacAllister McAleese has announced a new partnership with Cushendall-based GAA club Ruairí Óg.

The Law Reform Commission has appointed Sarah Foley as its new library and information manager. Ms Foley worked at the Law Library from 2005 until last year, latterly as assistant librarian. She later spent a year at the Irish Management Institute (IMI).

Trainee solicitors Steven Scanlan, Andrea Whelton, Niamh Ferry and Sarah Courtney have emerged as winners of the 2023 Michael Peart Challenge Cup. Mr Scanlan, of RDJ, and Ms Whelton, Ms Ferry and Ms Courtney, all of Arthur Cox, represented the Law Society of Ireland at the competition in Belfast.

Trainee solicitors Mariah Donnelly and Doreen McCarthy have triumphed in the Brown Mosten International Client Consultation Competition. Ms Donnelly, of Michael Kelleher Solicitors, and Ms McCarthy, of A&L Goodbody, represented the Law Society at the competition in Maastricht University in the N

More than nine in 10 property professionals believe that streamlining planning would have the biggest impact on boosting housing supply in Ireland, according to a survey by business law firm Mason Hayes & Curran — but only four per cent feel that a new government would have the most signif

Dunnes has been ordered to pay a total of €6,000 to two Roma women who were expelled from one of its Dublin stores after a court ruled that they were discriminated against on the ground of race in an Irish legal first. Legal rights group FLAC has welcomed the Circuit Court judgment handed down

The UK government is trying to "water down" a new international treaty on the prosecution of war criminals, human rights campaigners have said. Government officials from over 77 countries are currently meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia to negotiate and adopt a landmark treaty, the Convention on Interna

Brendan Hayes, regulatory counsel at Fexco, has been appointed to the Council of Bar and Law Society of Europe's (CCBE) new young lawyers' committee. The CCBE represents bars and law societies from 46 countries across Europe. The young lawyers' committee was established by the CCBE's current preside

A man has been charged with stealing Judy Garland's famous ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz. The iconic pair of slippers – one of four remaining pairs from the 1939 film production – were stolen from the Judy Garland Museum in 2005 and recovered by the FBI in 2018.

The Law Society of Ireland has published the shortlist for the Justice Media Awards 2023. This year, there was a record 340 entries across 15 categories. The competition is growing each year, demonstrating a high calibre of legal journalism in Ireland.

Hanna Fine Art is pleased to announce the forthcoming release of a rare and historic legal print hand-signed by the Rt Hon Dame Siobhan Keegan, Lady Chief Justice of Northern Ireland.

Legislation providing for the appointment of 24 additional judges this year and a further 20 judges in future has concluded its passage through the Oireachtas.