The provisional results of the Law Society Council Election for 2024 are now available. At their meeting of 18 October 2024, the Scrutineers approved the results of the online elections and agreed ...

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 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: ...

Irish law firm McCann FitzGerald LLP has delivered its first lecture as part of a new sustainability-focused curriculum for students at UCC. Partner Éamon Ó Cuív, the newly appointed Adjunct Professor ...

Increased maximum sentences for four types of knife crime are to come into effect from today (30 September). This comes after the Minister for Justice Helen McEntee signed a commencement order for ...

The Conference will include updates on developments in law and litigation practice and the keynote address will be delivered by Ms. Justice Eileen Roberts. Other speakers include Joe O’Malley (Hayes ...

The Common Proposal Form for Professional Indemnity Insurance in 2024/25 is now available. To help you to get a head-start on your PII renewal, you can now download the Common Proposal Form and ...

A new system has been added to lawsociety.ie to make logging in faster and less frequent as you browse the site. When you are asked to log in, your screen should look like this. If you don’t see this, ...

The Law Society Taxation Committee has an update for the profession on the Revenue Return Preparation Facility and ROS offline. The Capital Acquisitions Tax (CAT) IT38 is available on the Return ...

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 ...

A law that compels open disclosure of any serious safety incidents in a healthcare setting has now come into effect. The Patient Safety (Notifiable Incidents and Open Disclosure) Act 2023 provides a ...

Law firm Matheson has appointed two new directors, in the areas of technology and stock-market listings. Anthony Byrne becomes Director of International Listing Services, while Luke Tyrrell has been ...