Lawyers at Eversheds Sutherland have urged business leaders in certain sectors to prepare for requests from EU member states about their overseas investments. This follows a call from the European ...

The recent highly-publicised High Court decision in Philip Nolan v Science Foundation of Ireland, [2024] IEHC 368 has put the spotlight back on the concept of ‘no-fault’ dismissals, writes Lewis ...

The Government has decided to nominate barrister Mícheál P O’Higgins SC as a judge of the High Court. O’Higgins is a former chair of the Bar Council, who was called to the Bar in 1990, and appointed ...

New legislation on the screening of non-EU investments in key areas of the economy will come into force on 6 January next year. Dara Calleary (Minister of State for Trade Promotion, Digital and ...

The chair of a practitioner group in Britain has told the country’s Ministry of Justice that criminal-defence solicitors do not have the capacity or resources to support 24-hour courts. According to ...

The Law Society’s Practice Management Member Services team has produced two information leaflets for practitioners, covering the steps involved in setting up a partnership and the succeeding-practice ...

The legal-services watchdog has formally introduced legal partnerships, a new business structure for the legal profession. For the first time, solicitors will be able to form partnerships with ...

The winners of the Law Society Justice Media Awards 2024 have been announced at an awards ceremony at Blackhall Place today (20 June). Print journalist Killian Woods of the Business Post took the ...

History was made today (9 October) as 17 solicitors from throughout Ireland were formally granted Patents of Precedence, and given the designation of Senior Counsel, in an online ceremony. Law Society ...

Armagh-born Caroline Carberry KC has been named the England-and-Wales 2024 Crime Silk of the Year in recognition of her work on several ground-breaking cases. Carberry was named winner of the Legal ...

The Government has approved the drafting of a bill that would allow, but not compel, employees to stay at work until the State-pension age of 66. Under the proposals, a clause in a contract of ...

Dr Des Hogan and Dale Sunderland took up their roles as commissioners with the Data Protection Commission (DPC) yesterday (20 February). Dr Hogan, who had been Assistant Chief State Solicitor in the ...