As part of a statutory review of the effectiveness of the Decision Support Service (DSS) the legal profession has been invited to participate in a survey with a deadline of 6pm on Friday 14 February .

As we all no doubt recall from our ‘introduction to company law’ days, the principle of separate legal personality was established in the 1897 case of Salomon v Salomon. That is, the legal personality ...

Move more and sit less with these top tips for those working from home. More than half of those working from home as a result of the COVID-19 restrictions estimate that they are sitting down for an ...

The British government is to intervene in a Supreme Court case which has the potential to turn the country’s motor-financing market upside down, according to the Law Society Gazette of England and ...

What is psychological safety? Does the legal profession need it? And how can it get it? How confident would you be to speak up in a work meeting and share an idea, where it may be interpreted by ...

The implementation of the Windsor Framework has given rise to legal and constitutional challenges and the consequential costly access to justice for persons resident in post-Brexit Northern Ireland.

The European Commission has expressed concern about US measures announced yesterday (13 January) that restrict access to advanced AI technology for some EU member states. The White House said that the ...

President Michael D Higgins said that a spirit of ‘generous humanity and necessary inclusiveness’ had led to the foundation of Free Legal Advice Centres (FLAC) fifty years ago, its chief executive ...

Practitioners may have received a phishing email purporting to be from a John Melson enquiring if the practice would be able ...

FLAC will celebrate 50 years in existence on Friday 8 November, at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Golden Lane, Dublin 8. This year’s Dave Ellis memorial evening takes a different format, with a panel ...

Latent Defects Insurance (LDI) is being offered by some developers in the purchase of new apartments, in place of HomeBond or other protection against building defects. It is not the role of the ...

In response to feedback from the profession, the Law Society has launched a free regulation helpline. Regulation Answers provides a range of guidance and information resources on all areas of ...