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Most in-house lawyers in Ireland have experienced symptoms of burn-out, a new survey suggests. Over 170 in-house counsel were invited to reflect on their mental wellbeing at a recent William Fry CounselConnect virtual conference.

A £14 billion claim against Mastercard on behalf of 46 million UK customers can go ahead, the UK Supreme Court has ruled in a landmark judgment. The court agreed that the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) made numerous errors of law in refusing to certify a mass consumer collective action brou

Two judicial review applications brought over the length of NHS waiting lists in Northern Ireland are set to be heard by the High Court in Belfast early next year. Solicitor Ciaran O'Hare of McIvor Farrell Solicitors is representing litigants May Kitchen and Eileen Wilson in the cases concerning "in

Legal rights group FLAC has welcomed the introduction of new social welfare regulations addressing some of their concerns and recommendations in relation to the Covid Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP). The new regulations state that a person will not be required to seek employment outside that occ

No prisoners will benefit from temporary release for Christmas this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Justice Minister Naomi Long has announced. In-person prison visits will be re-introduced over the holiday season, but the Christmas home leave scheme has been put "on pause".

A night owl who couldn't stand the crowing of his neighbour's rooster has been given a five-month suspended prison sentence for shooting it. The 47-year-old fireman from southern France, known only as Gérard A, shot and beat rooster Marcel to death after being woken too early in the morning.

The Court of Appeal has vacated an Order of the High Court refusing an award of costs in an immigration case where certain documents were delivered one day after a deadline had expired. Background

Social media companies will face fines of up to €20 million or 10 per cent of turnover, whichever is higher, for failing to comply with new online safety and media regulation laws. The government yesterday announced new provisions in the finalised general scheme of the Online Safety and Media R

Domestic homicide reviews (DHRs) have been introduced in Northern Ireland with the appointment of three independent chairs. Justice Minister Naomi Long today named Nina Noddings, Jan Melia and Anne Marks as the independent chairs leading reviews.

Complaints brought to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) by three women who underwent symphysiotomies in Irish maternity hospitals in the 1960s have been declared inadmissible. The unanimous decisions in the cases of LF v Ireland, KO'S. v Ireland and WM v Ireland are final. The cases were am

A major Covid-related backlog in the summons scheduling waiting list has been reduced to 95,000 from around 122,000 in mid-October, the Courts Service of Ireland has said. The backlog arose from the need to reduce the numbers in court following the introduction of Covid-19 restrictions in March. The

Barrister Noeleen Healy has been named as the Catherine McGuinness Fellow for 2020/21. The prestigious one-year fellowship programme was established by the Children's Rights Alliance (CRA) in 2015 and has been developed in partnership with The Bar of Ireland and with the support of the Family Lawyer

Belfast-based Cleaver Fulton Rankin has advised the Northern Regional College (NRC) on the development of a new state-of-the-art campus. The £40 million campus in Coleraine forms part of a wider £85 million capital investment programme funded by the Department for the Economy.

Global legal business DWF, with offices in Dublin and Belfast, has reported a double-digit increase in revenue and profits in the first half of the fiscal year in spite of the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. In the half-year ending 31 October 2020, DWF saw group revenue growth by 15.4 per

Ireland is set to join a major EU law enforcement system next March in a "game-changer" for Garda investigations of cross-border crime. The European Council has approved Ireland's connection to the Schengen Information System (SIS II), the largest and most widely used IT system for public security i