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US employment and immigration law firm Ogletree Deakins is set to expand into Northern Ireland with the establishment of a legal support centre in Belfast. Around 78 jobs will be created over the next three years with support from Invest Northern Ireland, which has offered £312,000 in financia

A prominent lawyer has warned employers to take care around mandatory retirement ages after a nurse was awarded €85,000 in compensation after being forced to retire at the age of 66. Richard Grogan, partner at Richard Grogan & Associates Solicitors in Dublin, told The Times that the "days o

A&L Goodbody has announced the appointment of seven associates in its Belfast office.

The introduction of multi-party litigation in Ireland should form part of the national action plan against racism, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has said. The human rights watchdog said multi-party litigation would allow victims of rights violations and discrimination to collectivel

A medical committee's decision to refuse a kidney donation from a convicted criminal has been overturned by a court on the basis there is no such thing as a "criminal kidney". A judge in the southern Indian state of Kerala said the organ transplant authorisation committee should not have examined th

McCann FitzGerald partner Audrey Byrne and senior associate Áine Murphy consider a recent High Court judgment which provides useful clarity on contributories’ inspection rights arising in a liquidation under Sections 631 and 684 of the Companies Act 2014. In a recent judgment, which pro

Global law firm Kennedys has announced the appointment of its first-ever legal directors in Dublin and Belfast as part of a record promotions round. Dublin lawyer Martina O'Mahoney and Belfast-based Frances Thompson and Megan Boyd have been appointed as legal directors, a new role which aims to reco

The High Court has sharply criticised a company which obtained an interim injunction that was “completely unnecessary” and in breach of the principle of full disclosure. The court said that the ex parte application gave the “false impression” that certain action needed to be

Belfast solicitor Claire O'Mahony has passed away a year after her retirement from practice. Ms O'Mahony, who headed the wills and probate department at Boyd Rice Solicitors, passed away peacefully at Marie Curie on Friday 3 September.

The Courts Service has issued a warning about fraudulent phone calls appearing to come from a number associated with the Dublin Circuit Court family law office. Members of the public have been urged not to engage with suspicious calls appearing to come from the number 01-8886806, a legitimate court

Irish lawyer Stuart Cullen has been appointed by global law firm Dentons as managing partner of its British Virgin Islands office. Mr Cullen graduated from University College Dublin (UCD) and called to the Irish bar in 2005, before relocating to London and then the Caribbean.

Victims of intimate image abuse can now make reports to Hotline.ie, the national centre combatting illegal content online, for help removing images from the internet. The reporting mechanism is one aspect of a new Department of Justice awareness campaign to highlight that sharing or threatening to s

New EU market transparency rules have been transposed into Irish law by way of a statutory instrument. Agriculture minister Charlie McConalogue today signed a statutory instrument which will give effect in Irish law to additional price reporting obligations for the meat and dairy sectors which will

Northern Ireland solicitor Diarmuid Devlin has been appointed as a partner at London law firm Taylor Rose MW. Mr Devlin joined McMillan Williams Solicitors, which eventually became Taylor Rose MW, in 2017 a year after relocating to London from Northern Ireland.

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