The former chief justice Frank Clarke will be one of the speakers at an event on law and economics hosted by the Trinity College Law Review next week. Patricia Lucas, former judge of the Supreme ...

The European Parliament has backed a directive aimed at improving product-labelling that will ban the use of misleading environmental claims. MEPs voted in favour of the proposal by 593 votes to 21.

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 ...

The Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal (LPDT) made determinations in 19 cases of alleged misconduct against legal practitioners last year, according to its inaugural report. It made ...

Eversheds Sutherland has appointed David Kirton as a partner in the firm’s intellectual property, technology, and data-protection team in Dublin. Kirton advises Irish and international businesses on ...

Dublin-based law firm McGroddy Brennan LLP has announced a merger with Paul A Ferris and Co. McGroddy Brennan has offices in Dublin city centre, Ashbourne, and Naas. Paul Ferris will operate from the ...

Tesco Ireland Limited has pleaded guilty to two sample counts of failing to comply with consumer-protection law in how it displayed the prices of products offered at a promotional price to Clubcard ...

Davies, the specialist professional services and technology business, is to expand its legal solutions arm, Keoghs, into Ireland. Keoghs Ireland will acquire the assets from Dublin-based OBL (O’Brien ...

The Courts Service is introducing a new appointment-booking service in the Dublin Civil Combined Offices from Monday 3 April. The move is the next step in a plan to roll out the new service nationwide ...

Lawyer Thierry Wickers has officially assumed the position of president of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) following his election at the plenary session on 21 November. Thierry ...

The average asking price of a home listed on the property website Daft.ie rose by 6.2% in the year to the third quarter (Q3) of this year, its latest report shows. Prices increased by 3.1% in the ...

An expansion of the Courts Service’s digital court-management system is among the key objectives set out in the organisation’s latest technology strategy, published yesterday (17 December). UCMS ...