Law Society Professional Training works in partnership with the European Lawyers Foundation (ELF) and the European Institute of Public Affairs (EIPA) to send Irish lawyers to other EU countries for EU grant-funded training.

Over the past 12 months over 30 Irish lawyers have travelled abroad to either attend or speak at conferences and seminars in Luxembourg, Spain, Greece and France.

European arrest warrant

Topics have included:

• European arrest warrant,
• European investigation order,
• EU procedural guarantees instruments,
• EU substantive criminal law,
• EU service of documents, and
• EU law on asylum and immigration.

If you wish to attend similar training in the future, please email professionaltraining@lawsociety.ie to be added to the expression of interest list for 2025-2027.

Topics are likely to relate to EU family law, EU asylum and immigration law, and EU judicial co-operation instruments.

On 12-13 June, a delegation of Irish legal practitioners travelled to Luxembourg for training on the service of documentation in cross-border civil litigation.