5 days ago · Lewis Silkin has appointed Emma Wightman as a senior associate and Megan Kerr as an associate in its Belfast office. Ms Wightman brings extensive expertise and experience as a commercial litigator in managing complex legal cases and providing strategic counsel to a diverse range of business clients.

Jan 23, 2024 · The Supreme Court has quashed a decision of the Minister for Social Protection to refuse to grant a widower’s contributory pension to a widowed father of three children and has declared s.124 of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 (as amended) unconstitutional in respect of its exclusion of a widowed parent from the pension scheme.

Dec 18, 2024 · The final provisions of the Official Languages (Amendment) Act 2021 will come into force on 21 December 2024 in line with a statutory deadline.. From that date, posts to public bodies on social media will have to be responded to in the official language in which they are received and correspondence sent out by public bodies to the public to market themselves or their services will be done in ...

Oct 14, 2024 · DND Law has merged with fellow Newry firm ML White Solicitors. ML White's former offices on Monaghan Street are now closed and all staff, files and client documents have moved to DND Law's address at 1 Downshire Road.

Nov 26, 2024 · Simmons & Simmons has become the first law firm in Ireland to indicate it will operate as a solicitor-barrister legal partnership. The international law firm has notified the Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) that it is adopting the …

Apr 10, 2024 · A majority of the Supreme Court has determined that s.7(2)(g) of the Judicial Council Act 2019 which required the adoption by the Judicial Council of the 2021 Personal Injuries Guidelines is unconstitutional, but that the Guidelines remain in force in law being that were subsequently ratified by the Oireachtas through the Family …

Jul 28, 2023 · Beginning by locating the origin of Irish neutrality within struggles for Irish independence from Britain, before going on to show how the concept has been developed and tested over the century-long history of the State, Gallagher draws on a broad range of historical sources and interviews with military and political figures (some on the condition of anonymity) to produce a remarkably detailed ...

Nov 5, 2024 · Delivering judgment for the High Court, Mr Justice Conleth Bradley stated that “if the underlying policy is to put the third party in as good a position as possible in relation to knowledge of the claim and the opportunity of investigating it, there is no authority for the proposition that a third party moving to set aside a Third Party Notice must establish prejudice; the focus must be on ...

Aug 31, 2023 · The Court of Appeal recently, in Word Perfect Translation Services Ltd v Minster for Public Expenditure and Reform [2023] IECA 189, addressed a costs order made in the context of High Court proceedings which was the subject of an appeal and cross-appeal. The proceedings concerned whether a costs order should be reduced because a preliminary point was not raised prior to the full trial.

Aug 1, 2024 · A&L Goodbody partner Michael Doyle welcomes the first WRC ruling on the right to request remote work. The Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023 was enacted in April 2023 and provides employees with a right to request remote work.