With less than three weeks to go, the Law Society is encouraging all legal professionals to continue to register for Calcutta Run charity partners, Dublin Simon Community and the HOPE Foundation.

Authorised Push Payment (APP) fraud happens when victims are deceived into making immediate payments to bank accounts managed by fraudsters pretending to be legitimate payees, write Paul Convery and ...

A three-year strategy for the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) includes a commitment to invest in its digital and data capabilities. Writing in the document, DPP Catherine Pierse ...

The Government has given the Minister for Health the go-ahead to draft legislation that would introduce further restrictions on nicotine-inhaling products (vapes). A law banning the sale of such ...

European law firm Fieldfisher has agreed a ten-year lease on a new headquarters at Mespil Road in Dublin. Fieldfisher entered the Irish market in 2019 after a merger with McDowell Purcell, which had a ...

A bill that introduces new stand-alone offences of stalking and non-fatal strangulation has completed its passage through the Oireachtas, and will now go to the President for signing. The bill also ...

Two University of Galway Law students, Mamadou Saliou Bah and Salma Smith, have been named as the first recipients of a scheme aimed at increasing diversity in the legal profession. The RDJ Diversity ...

Clark Hill in Dublin has said that Conor Linehan SC will join to lead its environmental and natural resources team. Linehan brings more than twenty-five years of experience in environmental law to ...

Dr Geoffrey Shannon SC is to be appointed a judge of the Circuit Court. The Government also agreed yesterday (7 March) to nominate Rory Mulcahy SC as an ordinary judge of the High Court. The High ...

In DPP v Hutch and Others, the permitting of evidence to be admitted into the trial – found by the court to have been unlawfully obtained ab initio – is a matter of great concern to practising ...

Lawyers at Eversheds Sutherland say that the Companies Registration Office (CRO) has resumed enforcement activities against non-compliant companies. The firm’s lawyers note that the CRO Gazette dated ...

The Minister for Housing has signed an order putting into effect new legislation on tenancies and licences for student-specific accommodation. Darragh O’Brien said that the bill was a response to a ...