Cows grazing in Tubbercurry, County Sligo, Ireland. (Barbara Leonard photo, special to Courthouse News) LUXEMBOURG (CN) — The European Union’s high court held on Wednesday that EU law doesn’t preclude Ireland from requiring foreign lawyers to work with local counsel. Finding that the requirement doesn’t create an undue burden on litigants or violate the EU’s free movement of goods and services, the European Court of Justice ruled against Volkmar Klohn, an organic farmer living in Tubbercurry, County Sligo. After a local board upheld planning permission in 2006 for the construction of a dead animal processing plant near his farm, Klohn brought a series of unsuccessful appeals ultimately ending in defeat before the Irish High Court.