A LAW Society council member who described the handling of harassment allegations against former vice-president John Young as “deplorable” has been forced to make a climbdown. Former president Mark Sheldon secured the retraction from his council colleague John Franks during a debate last Thursday on the measures needed to stamp out harassment in the profession. […]

The central role played by the City in international finance has, over the years, led many law firms from around the world to establish offices in London. For Irish law firms, the motivation to establish in London has been all the stronger given the substantial trading links between the two countries and their geographical proximity. […]

SIR Richard Scott, the man who grilled government ministers on arms exports to Iraq and now the Vice-Chancellor, is to outline the workings of public interest immunity certificates at a March conference. National legal charity the Public Law Project has scored a coup with the lecture, ‘The acceptable and unacceptable use of public interest immunity […]