A law enacted last week will remove more than 3,000 obsolete legal instruments from the statute book. The Government has described the Statute Law Revision Act 2024 (SLRB 2024) as “the latest in a ...

The Law Reform Commission (LRC) says Ireland’s membership of international organisations such as the United Nations and the EU has had a “profound effect” on Irish law. The body has published a ...

COVID-19 has prompted lawyers to rapidly familiarise themselves with the legal framework governing virtual closings and remote signings in a remote work environment. There is no doubt that COVID-19 ...

The Law Society Business Law Committee has prepared detailed guidance on e-signatures and electronic contracts and transactions, for corporate entities and their legal advisors. The guidance is ...

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by Graham Dwyer against his conviction for the murder of Elaine O’Hara. The judges ruled unanimously that evidence from mobile-phone data at his trial had been ...

District Court Judge Conor Fottrell (small picture) has flagged serious concerns about Tusla’s performance and the consequences for children in care. He described the agency’s failure to allocate ...

The Government has published a draft bill that would ban imports of goods originating in Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. The bill says that the legislation will provide ...

Judge Mary Fahy is due to retire from the District Court in Galway on Friday 31 January 2025. Judge Fahy’s last day sitting in Galway will be next Monday, 2 December. Tributes from colleagues will be ...

Figures compiled by professional-services firm PwC show that the number of business failures fell in the first three months of this year. Its Insolvency Barometer shows that there were 192 business ...

In May 2019, the World Health Organisation (WHO) included burnout as an occupational phenomenon in its International Classification of Diseases (ICD–11), the 2024 Law Society Skillnet wellbeing summit ...

The Department of Justice has published a strategy on family justice that it says is aimed at modernising the system, and making it more user-friendly. The first Family Justice Strategy for 2022-2025 ...

In Ireland, contempt of court remains on a common law footing rather than being enshrined in legislation. But does it need a statutory basis? Contempt of court is the way the justice system protects ...