The European Commission says it will end a long dispute with Poland over the rule of law. On Monday (6 May) the commission said it will withdraw the procedure launched in December 2017 under Article 7 ...
The revised District Court scale of costs has been issued. The new costs will see increases of at least five points across the board, the first such rise since 2014. The scale of costs has been ...
Plans to introduce new hate speech laws have been shelved, justice minister Helen McEntee has confirmed. The minister is to withdraw section 2 of the bill, which is the hate speech element, following ...
More needs to be done to ensure that Irish Sign Language (ISL) users are supported in accessing their statutory entitlements through their preferred language, according to the first report on the ...
The Government has announced the publication of the bill that will set up a new auto-enrolment system for pensions. The Department of Social Protection says that the legislation will bring around ...
Dublin-based law firm William Fry LLP was the highest-ranked of three Irish firms listed in the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Report, published on Friday (13 September). The report, which ranks ...
Tesco Ireland Limited has pleaded guilty to two sample counts of failing to comply with consumer-protection law in how it displayed the prices of products offered at a promotional price to Clubcard ...
Ms Justice Úna Ní Raifeartaigh has been elected as Ireland’s next judge of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Her election follows a vote by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of ...
Maples and Calder (Ireland) LLP has appointed Lorna Smith as a partner in its financial services regulatory practice. She joins the firm having previously worked at two other large Irish law practices ...
Negotiators from the European Parliament and the EU Council have reached a provisional agreement on a bill aimed at providing stronger protection for workers in the so-called ‘gig’ economy. The ...
Despite massive investment in AI, sustainable business models have yet to emerge, a Goldman Sachs research paper has said. Goldman Sachs estimates that around $1 trillion will be spent on AI ...