The ALG 2024 Corporate Crime and Regulation summit at Croke Park in Dublin has heard that sanctions on Russia following the Ukraine invasion have led to jumps in the consumer price index there of over ...

The Health Service Executive (HSE) is facing 473 data-protection lawsuits as a result of the 2021 cyberattack. RTÉ News reports that there have also been 140 pre-action letters issued to the HSE. The ...

The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) has called for changes to the payments scheme for survivors of mother-and-baby institutions. The scheme, set up under the Mother and Baby ...

Judicial-review provisions contained in new planning legislation are not as radical as initial reaction to the bill suggested, lawyers gathered at Blackhall Place have heard. A conference at the Law ...

The Bar of Ireland’s Corporate & Insolvency Bar Association is to hold its inaugural conference on Friday 31 March. The event, which starts at 2pm and finishes at 5.30pm, takes place at the Bar of ...

The Law Society’s Conveyancing Committee has advised practitioners that revised general conditions of sale are to be used in transactions on and after 1 November. The 2023 general conditions have been ...

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 ...

Two-thirds (67%) of property sector professionals surveyed by Mason Hayes & Curran LLP say Taoiseach Simon Harris's commitment to build 250,000 homes in the next five years is not achievable.

Trademark specialist firm FRKelly is in mourning following the death of colleague, partner and friend, Niamh Hall. Niamh, who died on 20 November following a short illness, was a highly-respected ...

The Law Society’s Practice Management Member Services team has produced two information leaflets for practitioners, covering the steps involved in setting up a partnership and the succeeding-practice ...

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 ...

An EU court has said that a member state cannot refuse access to non-contributory benefits to dependent direct ascendants of mobile EU workers on the grounds that they represent an unreasonable burden ...