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Employment lawyer Lizzie Colvin has just returned to Belfast after a few weeks in Tokyo, where she represented Ireland in the women's Olympic hockey team. Ms Colvin, who works with DWF, discusses how she moved into employment law and how she manages to juggle her professional, sporting and home life

The construction supply chain struggled to keep up with increasing new housing and infrastructure development in the second quarter of 2021, a new report from RICS and commercial law firm Tughans has found. With total workloads showing strong growth, there were also problems reported with the cost o

A woman who prominently accused the late billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse has launched a lawsuit against Prince Andrew for allegedly sexually assaulting her when she was 17 years old. Virginia Giuffre, one of the most outspoken accusers of Mr Epstein, the disgraced American f

A notorious mafia matriarch known as "The Godmother" has been arrested while attempting to flee Italy for Spain. Maria Licciardi, 70, was taken into custody at Rome Ciampino Airport as she was boarding a flight to Malaga, according to reports.

Health minister Stephen Donnelly has denied that plans to legislate for exclusion zones around abortion clinics have been dropped. A spokesperson for the Department of Health had earlier suggested to the Irish Examiner that "existing public order legislation" could deal with protests outside healthc

Law graduate Mark O'Sullivan was shot and killed by his brother and his father in a dispute over the inheritance of the family farm, an inquest has ruled. The inquest last week returned a verdict of unlawful killing in the case of Mark O'Sullivan and suicide in the cases of brother Diarmuid O'S

An increasing number of women are bringing cases to the Employment Tribunal which cite menopause as the reason for unfair dismissal and direct sex discrimination. New data show that there were five tribunals that detailed the claimant's menopause in 2018, six in 2019 and 16 in 2020. This year has al

Three women judges have made history in Wales after sitting as part of the criminal division of the Court of Appeal – the first time it has sat in Wales comprising all women.

A new offence of "pet abduction" is to be created to address the escalating problem of dognapping. Justice Secretary Robert Buckland QC MP's legislation will reflect the fact that stealing a pet can be cruel to the animal and traumatic to its owner.

An Iranian official accused of helping to oversee mass executions of dissidents in the 1980s will go on trial in Sweden tomorrow, The Times reports. Hamid Nouri, 60, was arrested in November 2019 upon arriving at Stockholm airport on a trip to see relatives.

Fast food giant McDonald's is facing a lawsuit from an Orthodox Christian who claims its advertising pushed her to break her month-long fast for Lent. Ksenia Ovchinnikova is demanding 1,000 rubles (around €11.60 EUR) in compensation for "moral damage" after her moment of weakness, RIA Novosti r

Belfast-based law firm Cleaver Fulton Rankin has announced the appointment of director Kerry McCloy to lead a new legal technology group. Ms McCloy and a team of eight project managers, solicitors and legal professionals will provide large-scale document review and expert eDiscovery services to near

Ministers have been accused by a Fianna Fáil senator of "politicising" the role of the Attorney General in their response to the controversy over an event at the Merrion Hotel. Around 50 people, including Tánaiste Leo Varadkar and other high-profile politicians, attended an outdoor eve

John L. Leckey, the former senior coroner for Northern Ireland, has passed away at the age of 73. Mr Leckey, who retired in October 2015 after more than three decades overseeing inquests, passed away yesterday, according to the Law Society of Northern Ireland.

A solicitor is among three people who have been sent forward for trial in connection with an alleged €268,000 property registration fraud in Dublin. Rathmines solicitor Herbert Kilcline has denied charges of money laundering and submitting false deeds to the Property Registration Authority (PRA