The seminal Heneghan judgment has serious implications for the ability to elect an Oireachtas consistent with the Constitution. Lesley O’Neill takes the tally The decision of the Supreme Court on 26 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new law provides that serious offences committed in other jurisdictions may now be prosecuted in Ireland. The Criminal Law (Extraterritorial Jurisdiction) Act covers a range of offences, including ...

Ageing populations, together with weak productivity growth, raise questions about Europe’s long-term outlook, Central Bank Governor Gabriel Makhlouf has said. Speaking at the British Society of ...

Official figures show that annual growth in the price of residential property hit the 10% mark again in September. The Central Statistics Office (CSO) said that home prices rose by 10% compared with ...

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 ...

The Domestic Violence Act 2018 was commenced in January. It amends and consolidates the law on domestic violence and is one of the most significant family law statutes introduced in the past 20 years.

The Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal (LPDT) has, for the first time, published the outcome of inquiries into complaints of misconduct brought to it by the Legal Services Regulatory Authority ...

This is a list of solicitors as of 11 December 2024. Please ensure this list has been printed today. Gardaí can search, by division, for a solicitor available to attend their local garda station to ...

Have you been seriously injured in an accident that wasn’t your fault? Yes? Well then, you probably shouldn’t publish photographs of you taking part in a triathlon on your Facebook page if you’re ...

The Central Bank’s deputy governor has said that the regulator is looking at changing the rules governing credit unions to allow the sector to lend more. Sharon Donnery was speaking at a conference on ...