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The law firms and barristers earning most from legal aid in Northern Ireland are no longer being named out of concerns about GDPR rules. The Legal Services Agency has not published details payments made to solicitor firms and individual barristers for four years.

Belfast-based Edwards & Co Solicitors has announced the appointment of Philip Gordon and Bronagh Mulgrew as solicitors. Mr Gordon, who previously qualified and practised as a solicitor in London, brings over 15 years' experience in litigation, dealing both with commercial disputes for business c

Two cases brought by former prisoners over having to 'slop out' have been mentioned before the High Court. In one action, Susan McGovern, a former prisoner at Limerick Women's Prison, claims she was subject to degrading treatment when subject to the slopping out regime between 2000 and 2003 and from

The number of complaints to the Data Protection Commission rose by 75 per cent last year, according to the watchdog's annual report. A total of 7,215 complaints were received in the first full calendar year since the introduction of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), up from 4,113 in

More than 1,110 former officials at the Justice Department have called on Attorney General Bill Barr to resign. The statement, signed mostly by former career prosecutors, but also by some political appointees, said: "Mr Barr's actions in doing the President's personal bidding unfortunately speak lou

A police officer has been rapped for recording a private area of a Belfast solicitor's office without informing the lawyer. The bodycam footage captured documents sitting in different parts of the office, and audio of a number of staff members from the legal firm engaged in phone calls, the Police O

Justice Minister Naomi Long has met campaigners for new legislation on stalking as she prepares to introduce a bill to Stormont.

The PSNI breached a man's privacy rights by indefinitely retaining his personal data after his drink driving conviction was spent, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled. Fergus Gaughran, from Newry, was arrested on suspicion of drink driving in October 2008. He provided a breath sampl

A woman who failed to notify the lender in a “lifetime loan” mortgage agreement of her mother’s death has lost an appeal against the decision to refuse an extension of time to challenge the order for possession granted to the lender. Dismissing the appeal, Ms Justice Iseult O&rsquo

A man in Donegal has become the first person to be convicted of coercive control in Ireland. The offence was established under the Domestic Violence Act 2018, which came into effect just over a year ago.

Proceedings seeking an order for possession of property mortgaged under a “lifetime loan”, which became payable upon death of the mortgagor, were not statute-barred as the proceedings were not subsisting at the date of death. Finding that the proceedings were not subject to the two-year

The Courts Service has lost an appeal against the Data Protection Commissioner’s finding that it breached pre-GDPR legislation by publishing the name of a notice party who had been granted anonymity. Dismissing the appeal, Judge Francis Comerford said the Courts Service was obviously a data co

Protecting the basic human right of liberty "must be a priority" in the roll-out of new capacity law reforms, a conference hosted by the Law Society of Northern Ireland has heard. The Elder Law and Capacity Conference in Belfast brought together representatives from the legal, health and voluntary/c

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Statement by Ambassador Karen Pierce, UK Permanent Representative to the UN, at the United Nations Security Council briefing by the Chairperson from the OSCE

Employment law solicitor Richard Grogan of Richard Grogan & Associates looks at two recent tax appeal cases which have thrown existing practices to claim tax relief on employment awards into disarray. This issue arose in the Tax Appeals Commission in the case of an Appellant and the Revenue Comm