The provisional results of the Law Society Council Election for 2024 are now available. At their meeting of 18 October 2024, the Scrutineers approved the results of the online elections and agreed ...

The EU’s highest court has ruled that Ireland has failed to meet its obligations under an EU directive on the quality of drinking water. The action, taken by the European Commission, centred on the ...

The Irish Prison Service (IPS) is to receive more than half of an additional €93 million in capital spending allocated to the justice sector over the next three years. The funding, under the National ...

Insurer FBD has reduced its estimate of costs arising from a 2021 High Court ruling on business-interruption insurance. In its half-year results, the insurer said that it now expected the issue to ...

The Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) has said that “serious questions remain unanswered” about conditions in Mountjoy Prison’s Dóchas Centre during the COVID-19 pandemic, despite the recent publication ...

The Department of Justice has received a record allocation of €3.9 billion for next year in Budget 2025. Current spending of €3.6 billion represents an increase of 6.4% compared with 2024, while the ...

Legislation that clears the way for rules on the use of e-scooters on public roads has been signed into law by President Higgins. The new law, which is aimed at modernising Ireland’s regulatory system ...

Irish-trained lawyer Ronan MacSweeney, who now lives in Australia, and trainee Nina Jayne Carroll (Matheson) spoke at this week’s Shrink Me session on the psychology of belonging (30 May). The Law ...

Co Louth-based solicitor Paddy Goodwin has been given eight and a half stars for his latest album of guitar music by Hot Press magazine. The lawyer, who specialises in criminal and defamation law, is ...

A new ‘ Single Sign On’ system has been added to lawsociety.ie to make logging in faster and less frequent as you browse the ...

Ross Little has joined ByrneWallace LLP as a partner in the firm’s corporate team. Little has more than 20 years’ experience advising Irish and international clients on a range of corporate issues – ...

A report from Deloitte Ireland has predicted that insolvency figures for this year could hit their highest level since 2017. The business-services firm said that there were 238 corporate insolvencies ...