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 ...

DWF, which provides legal and business services, has appointed Janet Keane as a new healthcare director in its Dublin office. Keane, who has over 15 years of expertise in healthcare law and clinical ...

The former chief justice Frank Clarke will be one of the speakers at an event on law and economics hosted by the Trinity College Law Review next week. Patricia Lucas, former judge of the Supreme ...

Fieldfisher has named Peter O’Neill as a partner in its corporate and commercial and renewable-energy law practice. He joins from Eversheds Sutherland and brings long experience in commercial and ...

The Government has agreed to nominate Judge Colin Daly (pictured), the current President of the District Court, for appointment as an ordinary judge to the Circuit Court. There was a vacancy on the ...

Mediation is an essential accessory in the toolkit of every litigation solicitor. Liam Guidera provides a practical perspective for solicitors who are engaged as advisors on behalf of parties involved ...

The European Parliament has backed a directive aimed at improving product-labelling that will ban the use of misleading environmental claims. MEPs voted in favour of the proposal by 593 votes to 21.

The Child Law Project (CLP) has published its latest report, which covers cases attended by its reports during the second half of 2023. This volume comprises 54 reports – 43 from the District Court ...

US law firm Vinson & Elkins is to open a Dublin city centre office, in a move that it said would enhance its ability to serve clients in the aviation sector. Partner David Berkery, who joined the firm ...

The Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal (LPDT) made determinations in 19 cases of alleged misconduct against legal practitioners last year, according to its inaugural report. It made ...

A total of 10,033 abortions were carried out in Ireland in 2023, the fifth year of legalised termination of pregnancy under the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018. The figures ...

Eversheds Sutherland has appointed David Kirton as a partner in the firm’s intellectual property, technology, and data-protection team in Dublin. Kirton advises Irish and international businesses on ...