McCann FitzGerald LLP is now an official participant of the UN Global Compact. This is a global initiative for businesses committed to aligning their operations and strategies with the UN’s Ten ...

A new Central Bank measure of total credit in the domestic economy shows the total amounts to €219 billion. Banks are the largest providers of domestic loans to individuals. The majority of this ...

Commercial-law firm Philip Lee LLP has announced plans to double the size of its corporate and M&A (mergers and acquisitions) team over the next three years. It has also appointed partner Eoghan Doyle ...

The Government has approved a plan for Ireland to intervene in South Africa’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) case against Israel under the Genocide Convention. Filing of the intervention will ...

The British Government has announced plans to build four new prisons with 6,400 spaces over the next seven years. Justice secretary Shabana Mahmood told the BBC, however, that the system could still ...

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 ...

Whitney Moore managing partner Emma Richmond has been appointed chair of the European leadership group at Meritas, the global alliance of independent law firms. Emma succeeds Jonathan Polin of Howard ...

Family lawyers in England and Wales have welcomed judicial guidance on the concept of ‘parental alienation’, designed to inform the courts and professionals on how such allegations should be dealt ...

Lawyers for Marian Price say that she has begun formal legal proceedings against Disney for its streaming service’s series Say Nothing. Say Nothing is a 2024 historical drama series published by ...

The number of registered births in Q2 2024 decreased by 93, or 0.7%, to 13,354 births when compared with Q2 2023, CSO data shows. There were 8,804 deaths registered in the same period, which was 55 ...

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 ...

The Injuries Resolution Board’s (IRB) mediation service for personal-injury claims has been extended to motor insurance. The board has been offering the service for employer-liability claims since ...