President Connolly has signed into law a bill that creates new fast-track approval processes for projects designated by the Government as ‘critical infrastructure’. Under the Critical Infrastructure ...

The European Commission has published guidelines on transparency obligations for AI providers ahead of new rules that come into effect on 2 August. From that date, people in the EU will have to be ...

The Law Society has invited practitioners involved in conveyancing to a workshop as part of a pilot programme for its e-conveyancing platform. The workshop will take place on 22 July at the Guinness ...

Azets, the international accountancy and business-advisory group, has acquired Dublin-based Outsource, a specialist provider of financial and management consultancy services to legal firms. The deal ...

The High Court has advised practitioners of its arrangements for the ‘long vacation’, which runs through August and September. A High Court judge will be available every day throughout the period to ...

The regulatory body for solicitors in England and Wales has put forward proposals to address concerns about third-party funding of litigation. Third-party funding occurs when an entity that is ...

President of the Law Society Rosemarie Loftus has told an Oireachtas committee that a flat-fee system for criminal legal aid in the District Court risks causing “lasting harm” to the effectiveness of ...

The Supreme Court delivered its most consequential judgment ever on climate law in February 2026. Two months later, the Government introduced a bill that disapplied the central obligation of that ...

Location: Law Society of Ireland Sports Pitch (President’s Hall in the case of rain) Date: Wednesday 22 July 2026 Time: 1.15pm to 1.50pm This lunchtime session offers an opportunity to step away from ...

The objective of this consultation is to gather stakeholder feedback on the proposed methodology for assessing and classifying the ML/TF risk profile of non-financial sector obliged entities, the ...

A competition is being held to establish a panel of suitably qualified individuals, on a contract for service basis, to act as Adjudication Officers (Contractor) for the Adjudication Service of the ...

Deposit moneys in conveyancing transactions Where deposit moneys in the normal course of a conveyancing transaction are paid by a purchaser to a vendor’s solicitor, those funds are held by the ...