In a historic moment for the legal profession throughout Europe, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted the Convention on the Protection of the Profession of Lawyer on 12 March ...

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 ...

Plans to introduce new hate speech laws have been shelved, justice minister Helen McEntee has confirmed. The minister is to withdraw section 2 of the bill, which is the hate speech element, following ...

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.

The most significant reform of Ireland’s planning system since the year 2000 is in the offing, Michael Walsh, former chair of the Law Society Conveyancing Committee, has said. However, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Taoiseach Micheál Martin has appointed solicitor Maura Kiely as a Revenue Commissioner. Kiely, who was appointed Revenue’s solicitor in 2021, succeeds Gerry Harrahill, who recently retired from ...

Kim O’Neill has been appointed as partner in the Eversheds Sutherland LLP Dublin projects-and-construction group. O’Neill joins from another large Irish corporate firm and brings almost a decade of ...

Ireland may be allocated more US work visas after two US congressmen reintroduced bipartisan legislation. The move, to add Ireland to the E-3 visa programme, could make thousands of US work visas ...

Almost 69% of Irish respondents have said that they trust the courts and legal system, according to a survey carried out across 30 countries. The findings of the OECD Trust Survey 2023 have been ...

Eversheds Sutherland has appointed Seán Scally as partner and head of energy in the firm’s Dublin office. Scally has 15 years’ experience advising clients (developers, lenders, sponsors) on the ...