High Court proceedings taken by the Data Protection Commission (DPC) against social-media platform X have been struck out. Welcoming the development, the DPC said that the proceedings had ended on the ...

The number of cocaine users in Ireland rose significantly in 2020 compared with 2017. Mary Hallissey speaks with Emma Kavanagh, clinical services manager at Dublin’s Rutland Centre, on the prudence of ...

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 ...

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’ ...

The issue of risk management is so important to insurers that they have devoted the largest part of the annual professional indemnity insurance (PII) common proposal form to this subject. As we now ...

The Law Society is committed to helping members cast their ballot and offers the following support during business hours until polling closes at 5pm on 17 October: ...

Ivana Bacik is the Leader of the Labour Party and TD for Dublin Bay South. She was first elected as a Senator on the Dublin University panel in 2007 and was re-elected at each subsequent Seanad ...

The Courts Service has provided revised dates for Dublin Circuit Family Law case progression. Case Progression lists before the County Registrar, will now take place during callovers at 10am and 2pm ...

Security breaches happen, and no organisation is immune. The right response, however, can make a real difference. Rather than seeing breaches as failures, law firms should focus on proactive ...

Fieldfisher has named Peter O’Neill as a partner in its corporate and commercial and renewable-energy law practice. He joins from Eversheds Sutherland and brings long experience in commercial and ...

Practising solicitors and barristers are being invited to apply for one of three positions on a body to be set up under anti-money-laundering legislation. The Department of Justice has issued a call ...

Britain’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Stg £750,000 for a data breach last year in which the ...