Plans to implement major reforms to the family court system will be set out by the end of January 2026, the government has said. The Family Courts Act 2024 provides for the establishment of family ...

Senior figures from the legal profession, the judiciary and the Northern Ireland Executive have affirmed their support for the rule of law at an event taking place in the wake of threats and ...

BL has passed away. Mrs King graduated from Trinity College Dublin School of Law in 2004 and called to the Bar in 2006.

Around 6,000 same-sex marriages have now taken place in Ireland, a conference marking a decade of marriage equality has heard. The Marriage Referendum +10 conference at Dublin Castle marked the 10th a ...

TikTok has been accused by the European Commission of breaching advertising transparency rules in the Digital Services Act (DSA). Following the launch of an investigation in February 2024, the Commiss ...

An original issue of the Magna Carta, long mistaken for a copy and sold in the 1940s for what one historian described as a “fairly derisory price”, has been identified at Harvard Law School Library.

Irish Legal News has reached 2,000 followers on Instagram, where our bite-sized updates have become a hit among law students and early-career lawyers in particular. The @irishlegalnews account shares ...

A local authority has backed calls for "gender apartheid" to be recognised as a crime against humanity under international law. Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council this week gave unanimous support ...

A judge has criticised two neighbours for spending hundreds of thousands of pounds in a legal dispute over "a tap and a pipe that doesn't matter".

Belfast firm RP Crawford Solicitors has welcomed solicitor Aaron Murchan and paralegal Conor McKeown to its team. Mr Murchan brings broad experience across public law and litigation, having previously ...

Mason Hayes & Curran has promoted three lawyers to partner and seven to of counsel. The business law firm's new partners are Andrew Gill in the debt capital markets and financial services team, Conor ...

A new book analysing sentencing in cases of serious sexual offences, which explores the factors that influence the decision-making of judges, has been formally launched by justice minister Jim ...