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 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 ...

Dog Law Ireland maintains that current legislation is barking up the wrong tree. Hannah Unger, Demi Mullen, and Carrie McMeel blow the dog whistle to suggest how we can best help man’s best friend In ...

A total of 10,033 abortions were carried out in Ireland in 2023, the fifth year of legalised termination of pregnancy under the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018. The figures ...

A recent judgment represents one of the most substantial developments in the law of interlocutory injunctions in Ireland since Campus Oil over 35 years ago. The July 2019 judgment of O’Donnell J in ...

The Law Society’s Conveyancing Committee has published new guidance for practitioners outlining the appropriate steps to take in sales where first registration is pending in the Land Registry. During ...

Often the first point of contact for clients, legal secretaries, paralegals and executives play a key role within practices, receiving client identification documentation, or reminding clients to ...

Guidance and ethics helpline The Guidance and Ethics Committee operates a solicitor helpline for any colleague needing to talk over any matter of professional ethics. All committee members are ...

The Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) has announced the appointment of Niamh Muldoon as its new chief executive officer. Niamh Muldoon will take up the role on Monday, 23 March. The LSRA is ...

The latest episode of the If You Ask Me podcast hears from Louise O'Byrne, partner and head of the commercial department at Arthur Cox LLP. The lawyer has spent nearly two decades at the firm, ...

Dublin-based law firm Daly Lynch Crowe & Morris LLP (DLCM) has appointed immigration-law solicitor Leah O’Leary as a partner. The firm said that O’Leary, who joined DLCM in 2019, had greatly ...

The Irish Constitution was conceived as an instrument capable of underpinning national unity, but may in fact complicate that objective, a Supreme Court judge has said. Mr Justice Hogan said that this ...