The Law Society has been notified of an unsuccessful attempted cyberattack, using a sophisticated approach and mirroring a bank's valid fraud number. The attack followed the same approach as previous ...

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This course is suitable for solicitors, barristers, and trainees with an interest in in-house practice, and those employed in an in-house position in the public or private sector who wish to develop ...

The updated ADR Guide supports the Law Society’s policy to promote the greater use and acceptance of mediation as an alternative to the more protracted and costly court-based litigation. The ADR ...

Article 5 of the Act prohibits certain types of AI systems. These are AI systems that pose an unacceptable level of risk to the health, safety and fundamental rights of individuals. This ban is a ...

As part of a statutory review of the effectiveness of the Decision Support Service (DSS) the legal profession has been invited to participate in a survey with a deadline of 6pm on Friday 14 February .

Practitioners may have received a phishing email purporting to be from a John Melson enquiring if the practice would be able ...

Ireland’s data-protection watchdog was responsible for more than half of the €1.2 billion fines handed out across Europe last year for breaches of the GDPR rules on data privacy, according to figures ...

Legislation that changes the law on the duty of care owed by businesses, community groups and event organisers to visitors and recreational users has been commenced. The legislation amends the ...

The latest report from the Child Law Project (CLP) has found an increased focus from the courts on a lack of appropriate care placements for children. The report, authored by Dr Maria Corbett and Dr ...

A webinar hosted by Mason Hayes & Curran (MHC) has heard that the scale and sophistication of financial crime has increased, fuelled by technological advances. The event, entitled ‘Financial crime ...

Ms Justice Úna Ní Raifeartaigh has been elected as Ireland’s next judge of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Her election follows a vote by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of ...