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Arthur Cox has joined with The Fostering Network to provide children across Northern Ireland with unique gifts for Christmas. Staff in the law firm's Belfast office will pick out individual presents for 40 children participating in the charity's Step Up Step Down service, where foster carers support

An Irish historian has highlighted the little-known political imprisonment of Irish-American radical Tom Mooney as part of a new lecture series. Maurice J. Casey, the historian-in-residence at EPIC, The Irish Emigration Museum, spoke about Mr Mooney in the third lecture in the museum's Hidden Histor

A soldier in the United States Space Force has been demoted after he abandoned training to buy a PlayStation 5. When contacted by his superior, he replied: “Yolo, PS5 > letters of discipline.”

The Court of Appeal has overturned a High Court award for equitable damages in circumstances where the plaintiffs relied on “obviously home-made” documents to support their claim. The court determined that the trial judge had erred by awarding damages in lieu of specific performance, des

Business law firm Flynn O'Driscoll has announced the appointment of Caoimhe Heery as an employment partner in Galway. Ms Heery joins the firm from Ronan Daly Jermyn, where she has served as a senior employment associate for over eight years.

New regulations governing advertising by legal practitioners have been published by the Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA). The regulator has now assumed responsibility for regulating advertising by both solicitors and barristers. Advertising by solicitors was previously regulated by the Law

Remote hearings are not delivering effective access to justice in Northern Ireland's family courts, research by an Ulster University academic suggests. The new report by Professor Gráinne McKeever on the impact of Covid-19 on the family courts, based on interviews with practitioners and litig

Proposals to place adult safeguarding on a statutory footing have gone out for consultation. The consultation comes in the wake of last year's scandal around safeguarding failings, including allegations of abuse, at Muckamore Abbey Hospital and Dunmurry Manor Care Home.

Employment law solicitor Richard Grogan of Richard Grogan & Associates the importance of often-overlooked working time records. The issue of working time records arose in case ADJ-00028251. The Adjudication Officer in this case quoted the provisions of section 25 of the Organisation of Work

Lawyers for the families of two victims of the Belturbet bombing have called for transparency from the UK government in the wake of a new documentary about the 1972 atrocity. The families of 15-year-old victim Geraldine O'Reilly and 16-year-old victim Paddy Stanley took part in an RTÉ documen

University College Cork School of Law has congratulated an 80-year-old legal academic on the completion of his PhD three-and-a-half decades after completing his LLM. Soon-to-be Dr Tom Walsh has successfully defended his thesis, The Identification, Elaboration and Legislative Implementation of the Pr

The legal profession's annual Calcutta Run has raised €285,000 for homelessness charities in Dublin and Kolkata despite taking place "virtually" due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Law Commission of England and Wales and the Scottish Law Commission have today announced landmark proposals that will seek to ensure the safety of self-driving vehicles via a comprehensive new legal framework. Hailed as “leading the way on the regulation of this technology” by transp

The UK could be following Hungary and Poland in "backsliding" on the rule of law, an academic expert on European legal issues has warned. Professor Laurent Pech, who has been studying rule of law issues since beginning his career as a junior lawyer in war-torn Bosnia two decades ago, said it is "dif

A couple will have to pay for disposing of their son's collection of pornography magazines, a court has said. David Werking, 42, sued his parents, Beth and Paul Werking, after his "trove of pornography and an array of sex toys" were thrown out, MLive reports.