Loneliness and meaninglessness are constituent reasons for asking for euthanasia, a Dutch academic told the Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying today (26 September). Professor Theo Boer, a ...

The Government has approved the drafting of legislation to set up a new Building Standards Regulatory Authority. Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien said that the move would improve compliance and ...

An EU directive on working time has come into effect for the Defence Forces, after the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment signed regulations on the issue. The department said that members ...

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

The managing partner of law firm RDJ has said he hopes that its partnership with the Law Society on a new initiative will bring attitudes to mental health in the profession “to the next level”. Jamie ...

Ireland’s data-protection watchdog was responsible for more than half of the €1.2 billion fines handed out across Europe last year for breaches of the GDPR rules on data privacy, according to figures ...

Drafting of a bill to significantly reform the Coroner Service to increase efficiencies and minimise the impact of the death-investigation process on the bereaved has been approved by Government. A ...

COVID-19 has prompted lawyers to rapidly familiarise themselves with the legal framework governing virtual closings and remote signings in a remote work environment. There is no doubt that COVID-19 ...

A law that imposes a windfall tax on profits made by energy companies as a result of big increases in wholesale gas prices as a result of the war in Ukraine has come into effect from today (2 August).

A review of the effectiveness of legislation known as ‘Coco’s Law', introduced in 2021, has described the early indications as “positive”. The law criminalises the sharing of, or threatening to share, ...

Please note that Ms Justice Hyland has recently amended the directions to practitioners in respect of the lodgement of papers and correspondence with registrars in the Non-Jury and Judicial Review ...

Tributes were paid at Mallow Courthouse earlier this week to Judge Brian Sheridan (pictured), who retired after 18 years on the bench. The judge was formerly a solicitor, and was chair of the Law ...