Five grants are offered to help support smaller practices take on a new trainee and increase access to justice in more local communities around Ireland. Your practice is located outside of Dublin ...

Counties Sligo, Roscommon, Cavan, Leitrim, Longford and Monaghan have a new Revenue Sheriff. The Law Society’s Conveyancing Committee have been informed of the following changes.

The summit, hosted through fireside chats, promises to be a fascinating and inspirational event. Leading General Counsel in Ireland have kindly agreed to participate in a panel discussion on their own ...

Sinn Féin has named its TD for Cavan-Monaghan, Matt Carthy, as chair of the Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration. The post was one of seven secured by the party. “This committee ...

The new Family Law Act changes more than just the minimum living-apart period. The Family Law Act 2019 was enacted on 25 October 2019 and is expected to be commenced very shortly. The act follows on ...

The Government has confirmed that the first contributions under an auto-enrolment system for pensions will not be made until 1 January 2026. The retirement-savings system, called ‘My Future Fund’, had ...

Two judgments delivered in recent weeks appear to have created something of an earthquake in the usually tranquil field of freedom of information (FOI) law. Among the comments from information ...

The Government has approved draft legislation that the Minister for Justice says will streamline the process of making decisions on applications for asylum. The proposed measures would also ...

Figures from the Central Bank show that the average motor-insurance premium rose by 9% to €616 in the first half of last year, compared with the same period a year earlier. The Private Motor Insurance ...

The Law Society’s finance team has won two prizes at the Irish Accountancy Awards. At the awards ceremony in Dublin last night (1 May), the team was named ‘Finance Team of the Year’. The division also ...

An AI-generated video of a man killed in a road-rage incident told an Arizona judge last month that he believed in forgiveness, and that in another life, he and the man who killed him “probably could ...

Law firm McCann FitzGerald has made two appointments aimed at strengthening its senior management team amid what it describes as “significant growth” in recent years and confidence about its long-term ...