You can watch the Cancer Trials Hustings in full on our YouTube channel, including contributions from patient advocates, oncologists, and politicians: 📺bit.ly/3YVAeAt #CancerTrials #CancerResearch #ClinicalTrials

The Irish Legal History Society has its Winter Presidential Discourse of John Gordon on Friday 29 November in TCD 'Where there's a Will there's a Contest'. We repair thereafter to the College Green Hotel for further deliberations, its former environs displayed in the below image.

2 years + since the EU Court of Justice ruling in W.M. & Sovim SA v Luxembourg Registers, the case for public access to beneficial ownership information remains the same. This Transparency International Ireland Report, published 9 Dec 2024, includes a chapter by me pointing to a company law solution.

As Chair of the Company Law Review Group, I was delighted to meet and present to Minister Niamh Smyth TD along with CLRG Committee Chairs Ian Drennan of Corporate Enforcement Authority, Prof Irene Lynch Fannon Professor Irene Lynch Fannon, Salvador Nash, with CLRG Secretary Paul Thompson and DETE's Helena Keleher.

The Law Society Ireland Council election takes place from Wednesday 1 October in which I will be seeking re-election. The photo below shows the magnificently refurbished members' lounge, reopened to members this month. Hoping that all solicitors use their vote.

We are sleeping out as colleagues against homelessness to raise funds for Focus Ireland’s #ShineALight, proudly supported by Bord Gáis Energy. Show your support by signing up or donating: joinus.focusireland.ie/st/1051/t

Non political angle, just stats - of all the votes, valid and invalid, cast: Catherine Connolly - 55.2% Heather Humphreys - 25.7% Spoilt votes - 12.9% Jim Gavin - 6.25% I set this out as the media are using different denominators for their percentages. RTÉ News BBC News NI

My letter in today’s Irish Times

Honoured that the Lady Chief Justice of Northern Ireland will launch the latest volume of Irish Legal History discourses, Confluences of Law and History, in Belfast on Friday, November 14th.

Irish Legal History is a cross-border society, and so tomorrow we have another launch of this book, Confluences of Law and History, in Belfast in conjunction with the ILHS AGM and winter discourse. Four Courts Press Queen's University Belfast 🎓 HAPP at Queen's QUB School of Law

Confluences of Law and History: ⁦Irish Legal History⁩ discourses and other paper, 2011-21 — so good we launched it twice: Maynooth, Sept. 2025; Belfast, Nov. 2025.

The Irish Legal History Society, an enduring and authentic cross-border organisation is delighted to have as joint patrons Lady Chief Justice Siobhán Keegan and the Hon Mr Justice Donal O’Donnell, now honoured to be elected as President as the Prez of the Supreme Courts of the EU

Confluences of Law and History: Irish Legal History Society Discourses, 2011-2021 was launched in Belfast! The Lady Chief Justice, Dame Siobhan Keegan (pictured below between editors Niamh Howlin and Felix M. Larkin) launched the book at the Irish Legal History's AGM and winter discourse

Legal history volume launched in Belfast lawsociety.ie/gazette/top-st…