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All drink driving offenders will have the opportunity to reduce their disqualification period by up to 25 per cent by completing a rehabilitation training course under a new law coming into force today. The Road Traffic (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 has been commenced with effect from Mond

Matheson partner Emma Doherty has been named Corporate Governance Lawyer of the Year at the Women in Business Law Awards Europe 2021. The prestigious annual awards celebrate the efforts and achievements of law firms across Europe and highlight the most impressive achievements of female lawyers acros

Our regular round-up of deals involving Irish law firms. Submit your deals to newsdesk@irishlegal.com. A&L Goodbody is advising US-headquartered multinational Pilgrim's Pride on its proposed $952 million (roughly €800m) acquisition of Kerry's meats and meals business in Ireland and the UK.

The High Court in London has dismissed an application to strike out a claim brought by more than 7,000 Malawian tobacco farmers – including over 3,000 children – against British American Tobacco and Imperial. The two tobacco companies had asked the court to throw out claims brought by to

The High Court has ordered the UK government to pay 75 per cent of the Good Law Project's costs in its successful legal challenge against Michael Gove for the unlawful award of a contract to associates of his and Dominic Cummings at Public First.  The government had planned to ask for permissio

Jersey is to legalise assisted dying after a citizens’ jury voted in favour of a change in the law. Last week, 78 per cent of a citizens' jury that was convened on the issue said that terminally ill islanders should be able to seek help to end their life.

Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani has been suspended from practising law in New York because of his "demonstrably false and misleading claims" about the 2020 presidential election. Mr Giuliani, a former mayor of New York who has served as disgraced former president Donald Trump's personal lawyer since 2018

Two nude sunbathers who had to be rescued after being startled by a deer and getting lost in a forest have been fined. The two men had to call for help after they got lost in the Royal National Park in New South Wales, Australia, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.

The Court of Appeal has rejected an appeal against conviction brought by a man who murdered Keith Walker with a submachine gun while dressed as a woman. Although there were numerous grounds of appeal that were formulated, the court held that none of the points raised were sufficient to overturn the

High Court judge Mr Justice David Barniville has been nominated by ministers for appointment to the Court of Appeal. Mr Justice Barniville, a former chairman of the Bar Council, was appointed to the High Court bench in 2017.

Legislation extending the right to a court review to all borrowers falling into home mortgage arrears due to an unforeseeable loss of income has come into effect. The Personal Insolvency (Amendment) Act 2021, commenced with effect from 25 June 2021, makes a number of urgent changes to the Personal I

Corporate boards in Ireland should be required by law to comprise 40 per cent women within three years, the National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI) has said. The NWCI yesterday launched a new report and campaign underlining the effectiveness of binding, legislative gender quotas to deliver signif

DWF has supported one of Northern Ireland's leading independent retail chains to weather the Covid-19 pandemic and even open new stores on the other side of it. Menarys recently completed an extensive review of its branch portfolio, which included the renegotiation of rents and restructuring of leas

More than four in five people in Northern Ireland believe that the right to an adequate standard of physical and mental health should be protected in law through a Bill of Rights following the Covid-19 pandemic. New public polling commissioned in collaboration by Ulster University, Queen’s Uni

A podcast series about George Gibney, the former Irish swimming coach accused of child sexual abuse, has been recognised by the Law Society of Ireland at the 2021 Justice Media Awards. The top award at yesterday's online ceremony was presented to Mark Horgan and Ciarán Cassidy for their Secon