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WEBPro bono work has been "mainstreamed into the Irish legal culture" — but that was not the case until relatively recently, FLAC chief executive Eilis Barry points out.
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WEB3 days ago · A one-day conference later this month is to examine media and cultural representations of gender-based violence. The Centre for Crime, Justice & Victims Studies in the School of Law at the University of Limerick is hosting Words Matter: Promoting Best Practice in Media and Cultural Representatio
NI Law Society launches first-ever sustainability strategy
WEBJan 17, 2024 · The 11-page document was drawn up with the assistance of KPMG’s ESG team and the Law Society’s climate justice group, which was established in early 2022.. Writing in the foreword, Rowan White, president of the climate justice group, said: “I recognise that we are all busy professionals, with growing pressures, and that climate change issues may not be top of your priority list.
NI: In full: Institute of Professional Legal Studies 2020 prizewinners
WEBAug 20, 2020 · We are pleased to publish a complete list of trainee solicitors and barristers who won recognition this year for their work at the Institute of Professional Legal Studies (IPLS) at Queen's University Belfast. The Thomasena McKinney PrizeThis prize is awarded by the Law Society of Northern Ireland in
Dublin firm P.J. Walsh & Co. Solicitors merges with Ken Kennedy ...
WEBSep 12, 2018 · Sean Sexton, who headed up the firm founded by his father-in-law Patrick J. Walsh in 1937, will stay on as a consultant of the merged firm.. Ken Kennedy Solicitors was set up in 2018 by principal solicitor Ken Kennedy, who previously worked at Matheson, Maples & Calder and Gowlings WLG.. In a statement, the firm said: “Sean Sexton has been working as a solicitor in Dublin for almost 50 years.
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WEB2 days ago · Robert Shiels reviews a book that sheds light on personalities who shaped 21st-century Russia. With the end of Soviet Russia, there was little in the way of precedent or planning for the political class to follow in the move to a new society and economy.
Killian Flood: What the Enoch Burke saga tells us about the legal ...
WEBSep 21, 2023 · On 8 September, Mr Justice Mark Heslin committed Enoch Burke to prison for his failure to comply with a court order restraining him from trespassing at Wilson’s Hospital School. Although Mr Burke had been ordered to stay away from his former place of work since September 2022, a permanent inj
Analysis: Judicial review and statutory adjudication
WEBSep 20, 2023 · Philip Lee partner Clare Cashin and senior associate Michael Cahill consider the tricky question of whether a statutory adjudication process can be challenged by judicial review. Whether statutory adjudication in Ireland is amenable to judicial review is a question that has, in absence of a definiti
NI Blog: Judicial Review — no need to be prompt - Irish Legal News
WEBJan 19, 2018 · Andrew Ryan, a planning and environment partner in the energy and renewables team at TLT in Belfast (pictured), writes on changes to judicial reviews which took effect this month.. From 8 January 2018 the requirement to be prompt in starting judicial review proceedings – including those challenging planning decisions - …
Duty of care laws to be changed to restrict occupiers’ liability
WEBMay 19, 2022 · The proposed amendments to the Occupiers’ Liability Act 1995 will be included in the Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022 as part of the government’s push to reduce insurance costs.. The proposals follow recommendations from a 2021 review of current legislation in Ireland and other common law jurisdictions, and take into account the Court of Appeal ruling in Byrne v.