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International law firm DAC Beachcroft has appointed Yvonne Costello as a corporate partner in Dublin. Ms Costello is dual-qualified as a solicitor in Ireland and in England and Wales, and will service clients in both jurisdictions, working closely with the firm's UK-based partners.

Ireland's exams body is to undertake an equality review at the behest of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. The watchdog today announced that it had used its legal powers under section 32(1)(a) of the 2014 IHREC Act to invite the State Examinations Commission (SEC) to carry out an equal

Solicitor Anne Brennan has been appointed to the board of directors of Cork-based artist studios Sample-Studios. Ms Brennan is a practising solicitor with over 20 years' experience in the private and public sector.

A former UK Supreme Court president has said that parents who have to fight for access to their children without legal representation are being deprived of their human rights. Lord Neuberger, who was the UK's most senior judge from 2012 to 2017, told The Guardian that the removal of legal aid from f

A monkey in a pink tutu has been apprehended by police in the USA. The fashionable spider monkey was staying at a home in Jefferson County, Missouri when it "managed to open a door and get outside", police said.

People who lack the right to vote should be excluded from calculations to determine how many TDs should be elected by each Dáil constituency, a legal academic has proposed. An upcoming article co-authored by Seth Barrett Tillman, an associate professor at Maynooth University School of Law and

Arthur Cox has appointed eight new partners across the firm. The new partners are Simon Breen in competition and regulated markets, Maeve Crockett in construction and engineering, Stephanie Hanrahan and Christopher O'Reilly in asset management and investment funds, Brendan Kennedy in capital markets

The UK government is to appeal a Northern Ireland court ruling which concluded that there is "no viable alternative" to holding a public inquiry into the 1997 murder of GAA official Sean Brown. Mr Brown was chairman of Bellaghy Wolfe Tones GAA Club and was locking the gates to its training grou

An elderly English barrister has said he has no intention of downing his wig and gown any time soon. Noel Philo, so named as he was born on Christmas, turned 90 last month.

Changes have been made to the scheduling of court business in Dublin Circuit Family Law Court. The case progression list for Thursday 16 January 2025 in Court 35 has been rescheduled to Wednesday 15 January 2025.

Prisoners have a right to conjugal visits that cannot be refused on the basis of inadequate facilities, Italy's top court has ruled. The Supreme Court of Cassation last month ruled in favour of an anonymous 34-year-old prisoner who was denied private time with his wife on the basis that the structur

Barrister and legal academic Diarmuid Rossa Phelan SC has been found not guilty of murder. The 56-year-old, an associate professor of law at Trinity College Dublin, was accused of murdering 35-year-old Keith Conlon on 24 February 2022.

Criminal barristers in Northern Ireland have begun a month-long boycott of legally aided Crown Court cases in an escalation of their campaign for fee increases. The Criminal Bar Association (CBA) announced the boycott last month following disappointment over the Department of Justice's response

A motorist who tried to apprehend a suspected drunk driver on New Year's Eve was found to have been drink-driving himself. The 50-year-old attempted to prevent another motorist from leaving a lay-by in Qualicum Beach, a small town on Canada's Vancouver Island, CTV News reports.

New EU rules aimed at improving gender balance on corporate boards have come into force. The Gender Balance on Corporate Boards Directive, which has not yet been transposed into Irish law, sets a target for EU large listed companies of 40 per cent of the "under-represented sex" among their non-execu