Oct 10, 2024 · The Planning and Development Bill 2023 introduces statutory timelines for all consenting processes and will see An Bord Pleanála reorganised into a new body called An Coimisiún Pleanála.. Billed as the “third largest piece of legislation in the history of our State”, it was introduced following a comprehensive, 15-month legal review of the Planning and Development Act 2000 by the Office ...

5 days ago · Barristers appearing in the most serious criminal cases in Northern Ireland are effectively being asked to do twice the work for half the pay they were getting two decades ago, the chairperson of the Bar of Northern Ireland has told Irish Legal News.

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 ...

Nov 8, 2024 · The Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2024 was passed by the Seanad yesterday and will now go to President Michael D. Higgins for consideration and signature.. Upon being signed, the Act will take effect on 1 February 2028. The transition period will mean individuals who are currently eligible to purchase tobacco products — i.e. those aged between 18 and 21 — are not impacted.

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 ...

Jul 17, 2024 · The LSRA’s annual report for 2023 on the admission policies of the legal professions shows a “continuation of the generally upward trend in the numbers enrolling on professional training for solicitors and barristers”.. A total of 561 new trainee solicitors enrolled on the Law Society’s professional practice course (PPC) in 2023, with 467 (83 per cent) undertaking the full-time PPC and ...

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.

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 …

Feb 7, 2023 · This opinion is consistent with the views of Whelan J. in Shawl that data protection claims are not a tort of strict liability. It also suggests that the approach adopted by the UK court in Rolfe v Veale Wasbrough Vizards LLP [2021] EWHC 2809 (QB) requiring a de minimis threshold of damage to ground a successful claim for non-material damage in data protection claims is …

Oct 25, 2023 · The High Court has determined that a strict liability tax offence concerning the sale of tobacco is not unconstitutional, despite removing the discretion of the trial judge to apply s.1(1) of the Probation of Offenders Act 1907. Delivering …