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The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has been excoriated as "incompetent at best, dishonest at worst" in a new report from MPs and peers. The culmination of a three-year inquiry involving testimony from 175 individuals, the report highlights the FCA's failure to protect consumers and small bus

Just five per cent of voters say "law and order" is the top issue for them in this week's election, according to a poll by The Irish Times. Criminal justice has taken a low profile in the short election campaign — perhaps surprisingly, given the summer's barristers' strike as well as anxiety o

KRW Law has settled a defamation action brought against former Northern Ireland secretary of state Sir Brandon Lewis. The Belfast-based law firm sued Mr Lewis and the Northern Ireland Office in relation to an article which the minister wrote for the ConservativeHome website in June 2022.

A two-kilogram garden gnome made entirely out of MDMA has been seized by police in the Netherlands. The fairy creature, with a suitably mischievous countenance, was discovered in a drugs stash by the Dongemond police force in the south of the country.

A legal academic has assembled a useful list of nearly 100 Bluesky accounts relating to Irish law. Professor Oran Doyle of Trinity College Dublin School of Law is still adding practitioners, academics, publishers and other institutions to his "Irish law starter pack".

Belfast firm Mills Selig has welcomed Jamie Farrell-Murray, Andrew McConnell and Kate McCandless as solicitors following the completion of their legal training. Ms Farrell-Murray and Mr McConnell have joined the firm's corporate team, where they will work directly with managing partner Chris Guy, se

Simmons & Simmons has become the first law firm in Ireland to indicate it will operate as a solicitor-barrister legal partnership. The international law firm has notified the Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) that it is adopting the new business structure, which allows solicitors to for

Helen McEntee has yet to make good on a promise to respond to a petition calling for a public inquiry into the case of the 'Sallins Men', who were wrongly accused in connection with the Sallins train robbery in the 1970s. It has been 14 months since the Department of Justice received the petition, w

Criminal lawyers in Meath are reportedly staging a local withdrawal of services tomorrow due to a dispute over legal aid payments. The one-day withdrawal at Trim District Court was announced in court last week, local radio station LMFM reports.

McHale Muldoon Solicitors has established a specialist team to support victims of cryptocurrency fraud in Ireland. The Dublin firm's new crypto fraud support team brings together experience in financial crime, consumer protection and digital assets to provide those impacted by crypto scams with lega

Plans for a new European convention protecting the profession of lawyer have cleared a significant milestone with the approval of a draft text. The European Committee on Legal Co-operation (CDCJ) last week approved the draft text prepared by the Committee of Experts on the Protection of Lawyers (CJ-

Global law firm Kennedys has set out a science-backed plan to achieve net zero by 2040. The firm — which has 48 offices, including in Dublin and Belfast — is committed to reducing its global Scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 90 per cent from the 2040 fiscal year, using t

Nikita Hand has been awarded over €248,000 in damages after a jury in a civil case found that she was raped by MMA fighter Conor McGregor. The High Court jury found on Friday that Mr McGregor raped Ms Hand in the Beacon Hotel in Dublin on 9 December 2018.

A man has been convicted of a criminal offence after deliberately gaining weight to avoid compulsory military service. The 26-year-old was sentenced last week by a court in South Korea, where all able-bodied men are required to service in the military for at least 18 months.

Francesca Albanese, one of the leading UN experts on Palestine, is to deliver Amnesty International Northern Ireland's annual lecture next week. Ms Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, will speak about the findings of her latest report, Genocide