Barrister Martina Baxter BA, LL.B, will make her declaration as a Judge of the Circuit Court before the Supreme Court on Wednesday 4 October 2017 at 4.30 pm. The new judge was educated at National ...

A new Planning and Environmental Division of the High Court has been formally launched this morning (11 December) at the Four Courts in Dublin. The President of the High Court Mr Justice David ...

The Courts Service is to hold a webinar for solicitors later this month on its new online probate system. Since 2 June, solicitors across the country have been able to apply for probate online on the ...

The Law Reform Commission has published a consultation paper on the liability of clubs, societies, and other unincorporated associations, and is seeking views on the matter. The paper forms part of ...

The authorisation of a partnership of solicitors to operate with limited liability does not create a new business entity; rather, it authorises existing partnerships of solicitors to limit their ...

The Minister for Justice has said that he has concerns about the introduction of third-party litigation funding in Ireland. Jim O’Callaghan was speaking at a conference on dispute resolution organised ...

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 measure that changes the audit-exemption system for small companies has come into effect after the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment signed the relevant commencement order. Under the ...

Social-media giant Meta has been partially successful in a legal challenge to a European Commission decision to designate two of its services as ‘important gateways’ under the Digital Markets Act (DMA ...

The Law Society has welcomed the announcement that five new judges will be appointed to the High Court. At its Cabinet meeting yesterday (20 June), the Government decided to nominate the following as ...

Eversheds Sutherland has appointed Laura Fannin as a partner in its Dublin office. The firm says that the appointment will further strengthen its commercial, privacy, and technology capability in ...

The Government has published a draft bill on civil-law reform that includes an overhaul of the judicial-review process. The bill also proposes new rules for the discovery process and increases in the ...