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International law firm Simmons & Simmons has announced the promotion of Derek Lawlor and James McKnight to partners in Dublin. The double appointment forms part of a global round of 13 partner promotions across eight offices in Europe and Asia.

Corporate and commercial law firm Mills Selig has announced the promotion of senior associates Maeve Fisher and Kirsten Magee to partner. The double promotion in the litigation team brings the Northern Ireland firm's total partner count to 12.

Finance lawyer Anna Vangrove has joined Shoosmiths as a banking and finance partner in Belfast. An experienced banking lawyer specialising in real estate finance and energy finance, Ms Vangrove joins from TLT, where she spent six years and was latterly the head of its Belfast banking and finance tea

The four professional bodies of barristers and advocates of the UK and Ireland have condemned Chinese sanctions against barristers who gave legal advice in connection with human rights abuses in Xinjiang. The Bar of Ireland and the Bar Council of Northern Ireland, as well as the Faculty of Advo

Ireland's data protection watchdog is failing to enforce the GDPR and is allowing "the biggest data breach ever recorded" to continue to happen, an Oireachtas committee will hear today. Representatives of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) are among those who will be giving evidence on the

A consultation on legislation to establish a new national food ombudsman or regulator has opened. The government has committed to establishing a new authority to enforce EU-wide rules on prohibited unfair trading practices in the food supply chain.

The deputy chief executive of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) will join a panel of experts for tonight's Hibernian Law Journal annual lecture on the challenges of online disinformation. Celene Craig will be joined on the panel by Professor Lorna Woods OBE, professor of internet law at th

Research into the Irish system of legal representation for complainants in sexual offence trials has been cited with approval in a judicial-led review of Scottish sexual offences cases. Eamon Keane, an academic at the University of Edinburgh, and Scottish solicitor Tony Convery published a report on

Allen & Overy (A&O) has invited Northern Ireland charities which promote access to justice or support and develop education or employment projects to apply for a share of £40,000 in funding. The funding has been made available from the Allen & Overy Foundation, which is funded by c

A new law putting the US state of Georgia on daylight savings time all year round will reduce crime, officials have claimed. Governor Brian Kemp has signed Senate Bill 100, which provides that Georgia "shall observe daylight savings time year round as the standard time of the entire state".

The High Court has decided to refer a point of EU law to the CJEU regarding an access to information claim brought by the information activist group Right To Know CLG (RTK) against the Taoiseach. Specifically, it was claimed that the applicant was entitled to certain greenhouse emissions information

New personal injury guidelines providing for significantly reduced payouts in most cases came into effect on Saturday. The guidelines, approved by the Judicial Council last month, were brought into force through legislation which commenced on Saturday 24 April.

The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) held 2,000 fewer adjudication hearings last year than it otherwise would have due to the Covid-19 pandemic. According to its annual report for 2020, the WRC held 1,899 adjudication hearings last year, 1,609 of which were face-to-face and 290 which were virtua

People working with children or vulnerable adults could have to undergo re-vetting every three years under a proposed strengthening of the Garda vetting system. Justice Minister Helen McEntee today announced the establishment of an interdepartmental group to review Garda vetting arrangements and leg

Hundreds of previous convictions for selling sex are set to be expunged under a new government initiative. Justice Minister Helen McEntee yesterday announced that those convicted of offences abolished under the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017 would benefit from new legislation expunging thei