Whitney Moore managing partner Emma Richmond has been appointed chair of the European leadership group at Meritas, the global alliance of independent law firms. Emma succeeds Jonathan Polin of Howard ...

Commercial-law firm Philip Lee LLP has announced plans to double the size of its corporate and M&A (mergers and acquisitions) team over the next three years. It has also appointed partner Eoghan Doyle ...

The British Government has announced plans to build four new prisons with 6,400 spaces over the next seven years. Justice secretary Shabana Mahmood told the BBC, however, that the system could still ...

The Government has appointed eight members to the Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) – including six new appointments and two re-appointments. The 11-member authority is responsible for the ...

McCann FitzGerald LLP is now an official participant of the UN Global Compact. This is a global initiative for businesses committed to aligning their operations and strategies with the UN’s Ten ...

A new Central Bank measure of total credit in the domestic economy shows the total amounts to €219 billion. Banks are the largest providers of domestic loans to individuals. The majority of this ...

New research shows that the value of legal services in Britain has increased by 50% in the last decade. The Law Society of England and Wales’s economic-value report found the sector contributed Stg ...

Over one-quarter (27%) of offenders who received a probation order in 2020 re-offended within a year, CSO data shows. This is a rise of two percentage points when compared with the equivalent rate for ...

The consumer-protection watchdog has said that it has launched proceedings against some nationwide retailers for breaking sales-pricing laws. The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) ...

The Government has approved a plan for Ireland to intervene in South Africa’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) case against Israel under the Genocide Convention. Filing of the intervention will ...

Family lawyers in England and Wales have welcomed judicial guidance on the concept of ‘parental alienation’, designed to inform the courts and professionals on how such allegations should be dealt ...

The number of registered births in Q2 2024 decreased by 93, or 0.7%, to 13,354 births when compared with Q2 2023, CSO data shows. There were 8,804 deaths registered in the same period, which was 55 ...