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

The Chief Commissioner of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC), Sinéad Gibney, is to resign her position, with effect from 15 March. A statement from the organisation said that she ...

The European Commission has fined the global pharmaceutical company Teva €462.6 million for abusing its dominant position to delay competition to its Copaxone medicine used for the treatment of ...

The latest report from the Child Law Project (CLP) has found an increased focus from the courts on a lack of appropriate care placements for children. The report, authored by Dr Maria Corbett and Dr ...

The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) says that it has carried out a series of searches of businesses involved in the home-alarm industry. The competition watchdog says that the ...

A bill that creates a statutory right to the conclusion of court proceedings within a reasonable time has passed all stages in the Oireachtas. The bill provides for a declaration and, where ...

Law firm McCann FitzGerald LLP has promoted four of its senior associates to ‘of counsel’. The firm says that it awards ‘of counsel’ positions to senior associates with exceptional technical expertise ...

Since October 2023, over 10,000 Irish companies have been strike-off listed and hundreds have been involuntarily struck off the register, Eversheds Sutherland has noted in a briefing. Others have been ...

An Amsterdam court’s decision that Dutch airline KLM misled consumers with its ‘Fly Responsibly’ advertising campaign is evidence of the developing legal framework regarding environmental claims, ...

The Minister for Justice says that she has accepted the recommendations of two groups set up to examine how compensation payments for personal-injuries cases are determined by the courts. One report ...

The Government has approved the publication of what is being described as a “wide-ranging” bill aimed at strengthening protection for victims of sexual offences and human trafficking. Among the bill’s ...

Lawyers, like hairdressers, will be least affected by the introduction of AI, because human judgment is central to their work, a discussion at the Law Society Future of Legal Practice summit at ...