A new Taxation Committee Practice Note has issued in tandem with this updated guidance. The Practice Note addresses (inter alia) disposals of property for a non-resident vendor where there is a ...

The Law Society’s Conveyancing Committee has updated the specimen Pre-Lease Enquiries from 1991 which is now available for use by practitioners. This precedent should prove invaluable to those ...

Law Society Skillnet invites you to an Introduction to AI for In-House Solicitors, in person at Blackhall Place on Tuesday, 29 April 2025, 9.30 am to 12.30 pm.

It is estimated that as many as 25,000 people currently live in some kind of residential care. It is hoped that their cases will be reviewed by the newly created Decision Support Service, once the ...

The Department of Foreign Affairs is promoting Lawyer-Linguist (grade AD 7) positions in the EU Institutions, which are open for applications until 10 April.

With 54% of the solicitors’ profession female, the Law Society marked International Women’s Day by highlighting real-life stories of women succeeding in the profession. A special thanks to the ...

Solicitors of the Future is one of the many Law Society Public Legal Education programmes to widen access to legal qualifications and encourage early interest in a career in law.

A positive aspect of the pandemic is that it has given us the opportunity to talk more freely about our mental wellbeing than ever before. It is hard to name one industry, community, or individual ...

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 ...

In a historic moment for the legal profession throughout Europe, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted the Convention on the Protection of the Profession of Lawyer on 12 March ...

What is psychological safety? Does the legal profession need it? And how can it get it? How confident would you be to speak up in a work meeting and share an idea, where it may be interpreted by ...