Putting in place an enduring power of attorney should be considered as necessary and important as making a will, write Niamh Doyle, Aoife Sheehy, and Neva Watchorne. Recent research by Safeguarding ...

Only 27 enduring powers of attorney (EPAs) have been created since the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 came into force on 26 April last year, attendees of a Law Society Professional ...

The Government has appointed eight members to the Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) – including six new appointments and two re-appointments. The 11-member authority is responsible for the ...

A ceremony was held at the Law Society last night (6 November) to mark the dedication of the Attracta O’Regan Lecture Theatre. Law Society President Barry MacCarthy formally unveiled the dedication ...

The Central Bank has fined a payment-services company €324,240 for breaches of EU regulations over a period between January 2021 and December 2022. BlueSnap Payment Services Ireland Limited (BlueSnap) ...

The quality of some voice-of-the-child reports is variable, although reform of the role of guardians ad litem is ongoing, a One Family webinar entitled 'Building a Family Law System for Separating ...

Ireland’s data-protection watchdog has submitted the findings of an inquiry into social-media platform TikTok to its counterparts across Europe. The inquiry, which started in 2021, focuses on ...

Dublin-based commercial-law firm OCWM Law LLP is to merge with Holmes O’Malley Sexton LLP (Holmes) from 1 October 2024. The firms said that what they described as “an exciting development” brought ...

Hourly rates at the richest legal firms in Britain now reach £1,600, according to a costs expert. A long-time critic of the fees charged by elite firms, Jim Diamond spoke to the England and Wales ...

Lawyers at A&L Goodbody (ALG) have described as “significant” a recent High Court judgment that centred on the treatment of insurance contracts in a winding-up. The decision concerned CBL Insurance ...

The Government has nominated Emily Logan to be the new Police Ombudsman under legislation passed earlier this year. She was nominated for the role following an open competition undertaken by the ...

The in-house sector is expected to make up close to 30% of the profession within a few years. Mary Hallissey speaks to Alison Bradshaw, chair of the Law Society’s busy In-House and Public Sector ...