The Law Society has welcomed the introduction of new Solicitors Accounts Regulations, which come into operation on 1 July. The current regulations have been in force since 2014, and the Law Society ...

A KC who was among a group of high-profile Jewish lawyers who called for Israel to be guided by the law in its response to the Hamas attack has been appointed attorney general in Britain’s new Labour ...

The Seanad has passed a bill that will set up a new dedicated Family Court within the existing courts structure. Once enacted, the legislation will provide for judges who have specialist training or ...

The Government has halved the levy that credit unions must pay into a fund set up to deal with any financial difficulties in the sector. The Department of Finance said that the rate for the Credit ...

The data-protection watchdog has reprimanded and fined social-media company Meta Ireland €91 million for breaches of the GDPR rules on password storage. The Data Protection Commission (DPC) had ...

The Local Authorities Solicitors Bar Association (LASBA) will hold its winter seminar at Civic Offices, Dublin City Council, Wood Quay, Dublin 8, on Friday 29 November. The seminar will run from ...

Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC has been appointed as Special Rapporteur on Child Protection for a three-year term. UCD BCL graduate Gallagher was called to the Bar of Ireland (2001), the Bar of England and ...

Gore & Grimes Solicitors LLP lifted the gong as Ireland’s top law firm at the Dye & Durham Irish Law Awards 2023. The Dublin firm won the award at the gala awards ceremony which took place at the ...

Plans to introduce new hate speech laws have been shelved, justice minister Helen McEntee has confirmed. The minister is to withdraw section 2 of the bill, which is the hate speech element, following ...

Dublin-based law firm Beauchamps has hired Anne Maree Igoe as a partner in its commercial-property practice. The firm says that the move continues the expansion of its projects, infrastructure, and ...

The Law Society of Ireland and the Central Bank are to hold a joint event to outline the approach to implementing key aspects of the updated Administrative Sanctions Procedure (ASP). The event, to be ...

Property lawyer Paul McCutcheon has joined RDJ as partner and head of housing. McCutcheon (pictured) specialises in advising developer clients in all aspects of the acquisition, development and sale ...