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 Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024 was enacted on 2 July, the culmination of over seven years’ consultation and redrafting, beginning with the Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017, ...

Please note that Ms Justice Hyland has recently amended the directions to practitioners in respect of the lodgement of papers and correspondence with registrars in the Non-Jury and Judicial Review ...

The President has signed into law a bill that introduces changes to the rental market that will take effect from 1 March. The Residential Tenancies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2026 includes ...

Fieldfisher has promoted ten people in its Dublin office to the role of director. The new directors are Aine Grogan, Amy McMahon, Aoife Stack, Conor Folan, James Roche, Joanna Bannon, Neil Cahill, ...

The Dublin Solicitors Bar Association (DSBA) is organising a webinar tomorrow (28 April) on legal perspectives on generative AI. The Zoom webinar, chaired by Ms Justice Eileen Roberts, will run from ...

The Government has approved the drafting of legislation to set up a new Building Standards Regulatory Authority. Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien said that the move would improve compliance and ...

An overhaul of Ireland’s family-law system was set out by Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan at the fifth Family Justice Development Forum (19 January). The minister set out the implementation plan ...

HOMS Assist has expanded its personal-injuries team, with a series of appointments in its workplace and road-traffic divisions. The move comes in response to sustained demand in its offices in Dublin, ...

The Government has published an outline of legislation that will implement key elements of the EU’s AI Act. While the EU law has direct legal effect in member states, national legislation is needed to ...

Portmarnock, Co Dublin native Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC has left London’s Doughty Street Chambers. In what the renowned human-rights lawyer described as “a very difficult decision”, Gallagher has ended ...

Workers who retire at 65 under their employment contracts will have the right to remain in work for a further year under a proposal going to Cabinet today (25 March). Minister for Enterprise Peter ...