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Arthur Cox has announced the renewal of its legal scholarship programme in conjunction with University College Cork. The aim of the Arthur Cox UCC Law Scholarships is to support law students at University College Cork who face economic and societal barriers to participating fully in their studies. T

Global law firm DLA Piper has appointed Matthew Cole as the new head of its corporate practice in Ireland. He takes over with immediate effect from Éanna Mellett, who has completed a successful four-year term in the role and will continue as a corporate partner.

Senior legal executives will have the opportunity to become Crown Court judges in England and Wales as the UK government takes action to address the backlog of serious criminal cases. Justice Secretary Alex Chalk KC announced that the departure from usual practice on the Crown Court bench, which has

Police responding to reports of a man screaming "help" discovered the source of the screaming was actually a goat. Body camera footage shows officers in Oklahoma running towards the source of the screaming only to find the unhappy farm animal.

The UK government has scrapped plans to repeal thousands of EU laws by the end of the year in what was dubbed a "post-Brexit bonfire". The controversial sunset clause in the Retained EU Law Bill, which is currently being considered by MPs, will no longer apply to all retained EU law and will instead

Ireland has become the 19th state to ratify the Convention on the International Organization for Marine Aids to Navigation. The international agreement changes the status of the International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities (IALA) from a non-governmental organisat

Northern Ireland's Public Prosecution Service (PPS) has decided not to prosecute a former police officer in connection with the fatal shooting of Colum Marks in 1991. The retired officer was reported for consideration after an investigation by the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland into the shoot

A male partner at a law firm has been ordered to pay £45,000 in fines and costs after singing a “degrading” song to a junior female colleague and making obscene gestures at a Christmas party. The woman, who had been working as a trainee solicitor at the practice in London for three

A man stopped by police while driving a jet ski down an Alabama highway was allowed to continue on his way after they found the vehicle was street-legal. Multiple people called 911 after spotting the bright yellow jet ski with pink stripes making its way down busy Highway 98, local TV station WKRG r

Dr Albert Keating, a leading expert in Irish probate law, has passed away at the age of 71. Beginning his career as a barrister practising in Cork, he went on to become a senior law lecturer at Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), now South East Technological University (SETU).

Frances Moran SC, the first woman to become a senior counsel in either Ireland or Britain, will be the subject of a new artwork by Vera Klute which has been jointly commissioned by the Bar of Ireland and the King's Inns as part of the In Plain Sight initiative. Ms Moran was called to the Bar in 1924

Former Banbridge solicitor Paul Downey has avoided jail after admitting he took over £70,000 from a dead client's estate to fund the running of his practice. Judge Gordon Kerr KC, sitting in Newry Crown Court, yesterday sentenced Mr Downey to 27 months' imprisonment suspended for three years,

The European Commission has called on member states to take action to combat commercial-scale online piracy of sports and other live events, such as concerts and theatre performances. The Commission has adopted a recommendation encouraging member states, authorities, holders of rights and providers

The Italian government is facing calls to crack down on "questionable mozzarella" made abroad and marketed as Italian. A product purporting to be sliced mozzarella, produced in Austria by a Chinese-headquarted company but featuring the Leaning Tower of Pisa on its packaging, has been reported to min

More cases brought before the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) are being resolved with the use of mediation, according to its annual report for 2022. There was a 30 per cent increase in parties willing to engage in mediation in 2022, during which the WRC broadened its service model to deliver me