For small and medium legal firms, physical security becomes even more crucial due to the sensitive nature of the information they handle – client records, case files, legal documents, and sometimes ...

This networking event will be centred around a discussion on stalking, harassment and unwanted conduct, from Keith Walsh SC, a leading family law lawyer, and Erin Brogan, FLAC.

The Law Society has launched the fully digital eCompendium to the Solicitors Acts, which contains all the primary legislation regulating solicitors and empowering the Society, and now includes the ...

When documents disclosed in discovery have been redacted, the courts face a balancing act between the public interest in the confidentiality of documentation and the public interest in securing ...

The High Court, in AIB v Counihan ([2016] IEHC 72), a judgment of this author, acknowledged the ex officio obligation existing under ECJ case law for a national court to assess, of its own motion, ...

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 ...

Pharmacists could “fall through the cracks” of legal protection of conscience in cases of euthanasia and assisted suicide, a practitioner has warned. Writing in the latest Irish Pharmacist, Dr ...

This training course is an introduction to practical AI uses with an emphasis on professional responsibility. This training course aims to provide practical, low risk use cases that can be implemented ...

The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) has urged the State to scrap the Special Criminal Court (SCC), and to declare that the ordinary courts are adequate to secure the effective ...

The Law Society’s Conditions of Sale 2019 for conveyancers came into effect on 1 January 2019. They provide that title is now investigated before the contract is entered into. The conditions radically ...

COVID-19 may have wrestled the legal world into embracing the technological advantages of the 21 st century, but not every matter can be dealt with remotely, say judges. Law Society nominees on courts ...

Lawyer Kate Heffernan has returned to Mercy Law Resource Centre, after a previous internship and later work as a pro bono secondee from Arthur Cox. The Trinity LLB graduate also did a postgraduate ...