The Irish Legal History Society is holding its annual general meeting on Friday 29 November. The meeting will be followed by a lecture from the society’s president John G Gordon DL. The lecture is ...

An EU court has upheld a decision by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) on an application made by Ukraine’s border-guard service. Last year, the EUIPO refused to register as an EU ...

Four in ten Irish businesses are unprepared to handle unannounced regulatory inspections, known as 'dawn raids', according to a survey by business-law firm Mason Hayes & Curran (MHC). The firm says ...

International firm Squire Patton Boggs has appointed André Vermeulen as director to set up a new Irish practice covering tax strategy and benefits. Vermeulen focuses on advising large companies and ...

It had been “a single ill-judged remark” that had been made in the privacy of the retiring room and “was made without malice”, the finding continued. The magistrate was issued with a formal warning ...

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has urged solicitors in England and Wales to move on from the Axiom Ince scandal, despite last week’s heavily critical report into the watchdog's handling of the ...

Ogier has welcomed Richard Kelly, an expert in structured finance and capital markets, to its banking-and-finance team in Ireland. Kelly is the current chair of the Law Society EU and International ...

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has called for the abolition of the Special Criminal Court and the scrapping of plans to allow gardaí to use facial-recognition technology (FRT). The calls ...

A plan by the Mexican government to require the direct election of candidates to judicial posts is to go ahead after a vote by the country’s Supreme Court yesterday (5 November). Seven of the 11 ...

The Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) says that a survey that it has commissioned shows “widespread support” for measures to tackle overcrowding through alternatives to imprisonment. The RED C poll ...

The number of families in Census 2022 was 59% higher than in 1996, but the average number of children per family fell by 26%, CSO data shows. The number of families with no children saw an increase of ...

International law firm Clark Hill has announced today that Conor Kenny has joined its transatlantic practice as an international business co-ordinator. Based in Dublin, Kenny will focus on driving ...