International law firm Bird & Bird has expanded its team in Ireland by appointing Susan Battye as head of the country’s employment practice. Battye has more than two decades of experience advising ...

The Law Reform Commission (LRC) has published a consultation paper that sets out the arguments for and against a liberalisation of the rules governing the third-party funding of litigation.

A new State agency, brought about by the merger of the Property Registration Authority (PRA), the Valuation Office, and Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSI), has officially begun operating. Tailte Éireann ...

Commercial-law firm Philip Lee has appointed four new partners across some of its key practice areas. The firm says that the appointments of Niall Donnelly, Alison Murray, Patrick Kane, and Jennifer ...

A survey carried out by law firm Mason Hayes & Curran (MHC) has shown that six out of ten business leaders believe corporate crime is still not adequately legislated for in Ireland. The survey of 150 ...

The head of international law firm Simmons & Simmons in Ireland has told a legal podcast that the firm is looking at where it can grow in Ireland. Rachel Stanton told the Fifth Court Podcast, recorded ...

The Bar of Ireland and the Family Lawyers Association are holding a summit on the Family Courts Bill 2022. The bill is currently before the Houses of the Oireachtas and will form an intrinsic part of ...

A Mercy Law Resource Centre (MLRC) report ‘Social Housing, Domestic Violence and the Public Sector Duty’ which will be launched by Labour Party leader Ivana Bacik on Tuesday (5 September). The report ...

The Department of Health has published the general scheme of a bill that would scrap all in-patient charges for public patients in all public hospitals. This legislation, when enacted, will remove the ...

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 Law Society Gazette is today (7 March) publishing the annual figures for Ireland’s 20 largest legal workplaces by practising solicitor numbers for the year ending 31 December 2024. Matheson LLP ...

Lawyers at McCann FitzGerald have highlighted changes in new gambling legislation linked to anti-money-laundering (AML) obligations. The firm says that, while the changes are not extensive, they are ...