Irish-trained lawyer Ronan MacSweeney, who now lives in Australia, and trainee Nina Jayne Carroll (Matheson) spoke at this week’s Shrink Me session on the psychology of belonging (30 May). The Law ...

The Department of Justice has received a record allocation of €3.9 billion for next year in Budget 2025. Current spending of €3.6 billion represents an increase of 6.4% compared with 2024, while the ...

The Irish Branch of GEMME (the European Judges' Group for Mediation) will host an open hybrid event on the topic of 'Mediation in the context of catastrophic injury and medical negligence cases', on ...

A judge of the Court of the Justice of the EU (CJEU) will speak at a DCU Brexit Institute seminar next month. A keynote speech by Judge Savvas Papasavvas, (vice president of the EU General Court) at ...

A review of the effectiveness of legislation known as ‘Coco’s Law', introduced in 2021, has described the early indications as “positive”. The law criminalises the sharing of, or threatening to share, ...

The provisional results of the Law Society Council Election for 2024 are now available. At their meeting of 18 October 2024, the Scrutineers approved the results of the online elections and agreed ...

The Irish Prison Service (IPS) is to receive more than half of an additional €93 million in capital spending allocated to the justice sector over the next three years. The funding, under the National ...

Legislation that clears the way for rules on the use of e-scooters on public roads has been signed into law by President Higgins. The new law, which is aimed at modernising Ireland’s regulatory system ...

Co Louth-based solicitor Paddy Goodwin has been given eight and a half stars for his latest album of guitar music by Hot Press magazine. The lawyer, who specialises in criminal and defamation law, is ...

Putting in place an enduring power of attorney should be considered as necessary and important as making a will, write Niamh Doyle, Aoife Sheehy, and Neva Watchorne. Recent research by Safeguarding ...

Ross Little has joined ByrneWallace LLP as a partner in the firm’s corporate team. Little has more than 20 years’ experience advising Irish and international clients on a range of corporate issues – ...

Mason Hayes & Curran (MHC) has appointed Michaela Herron as its new head of life sciences. She specialises in the intersection of technology and life-sciences regulation, particularly the EU ...