International law firm Clark Hill has appointed Jennifer Fay as partner in charge of its Dublin office. Fay, who had been deputy member in charge for the firm’s Dublin office, brings over 20 years of ...

We know that solicitors are extremely busy, and receive a large volume of emails from clients, professional contacts, and organisations including the Law Society. Based on your feedback, we have ...

January is an excellent time to kickstart your mental health and psychological fitness by embarking on a suite of subsidised psychotherapy sessions. LegalMind is operated through the Law Society’s ...

Building upon your solicitor qualification, the LLM provides an ideal opportunity for professional development in a specialised area of law. You will undertake in-depth study of an agreed legal topic ...

The North’s justice minister has said that she is “disappointed” by industrial action being taken by the Criminal Bar ...

Lawyer Thierry Wickers has officially assumed the position of president of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) following his election at the plenary session on 21 November. Thierry ...

Under the Courts Act 1981, section 20.2, the Minister for Justice may change the rate of interest under section 26 of the Debtors (Ireland) Act 1840. But a very significant change brought about by the ...

A total of 34 barristers transferred to the solicitors’ profession in Ireland in 2017. The figure is the same as that recorded in 2016. In 2014 and 2015, the number of transfers to the solicitors’ ...

A Smith & Williamson report has found that confidence in the legal sector has dipped dramatically in the past twelve months. And 80% of the top twenty firms surveyed have been approached about mergers ...

Gardaí attached to the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau (GNECB) arrested a solicitor on Friday, following a two-year investigation on foot of intelligence received from the Property Registration ...

Places an obligation on solicitors to provide advice and information prior to the issuing of any proceeding – a statutory declaration is required to be provided to satisfy same, The court has the ...

As we all no doubt recall from our ‘introduction to company law’ days, the principle of separate legal personality was established in the 1897 case of Salomon v Salomon. That is, the legal personality ...