A famous Indian yoga teacher was once asked by a student how he might give up smoking. The reply came as something of a shock: “Don’t stop smoking – very bad for your health – the effort to stop ...

Warm tributes were paid yesterday to departing Supreme Court Justice Mary Finlay Geoghegan who has retired. With a double first from UCD in maths and maths physics, Justice Finlay Geoghegan first ...

Two judgments delivered in recent weeks appear to have created something of an earthquake in the usually tranquil field of freedom of information (FOI) law. Among the comments from information ...

Two new members have been appointed to the Standards in Public Office Commission. Mr Justice Garrett Sheehan (retired judge of the Court of Appeal) has been appointed by President Michael D Higgins ...

The scheme envisaged by the European public procurement regime, as it relates to remedies and implemented in this jurisdiction by the Remedies Regulations 2010, is that the institution of proceedings ...

The President of the Court of Appeal has issued Practice Direction CA15 to address written submissions, books of appeal, authorities in criminal appeals and matters relating to case management in the ...

The Law Society’s Conditions of Sale 2019 for conveyancers came into effect on 1 January 2019. They provide that title is now investigated before the contract is entered into. The conditions radically ...

The change in practice follows the introduction of a web-based form in September 2024. According to the WRC, the web-based form offers numerous enhanced features that are not available in the PDF ...