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An appeal is to be heard at the Supreme Court tomorrow in a case on the powers of specialist tribunals and local authorities relating to the ‘bedroom tax’. The court will consider whether social security tribunals and local authorities have the power to provide effective remedy to benefi

A detective imprisoned for harassing a State solicitor by sending abusive letters and emails has had her sentence suspended. Eve Doherty, 51, had the remainder of her three-year sentence suspended by the Court of Appeal.

A student librarian has received a prestigious Ulster University award supported by international law firm Allen & Overy. Geraldine Colgan from Ballyduff, Ashford has become the second recipient of the award, presented annually to the student who achieves the highest marks on the library and inf

The UK government’s bulk surveillance powers will be examined by the highest chamber of the European Court of Human Rights this week, the latest stage in a long-running legal battle over the UK’s use of previously-secret surveillance powers and its sharing of massive amounts of private c

According to the Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2019, published in April 2019, 32% of businesses identified cyber security breaches or attacks within the last 12 months. In the modern digital world, cybersecurity breaches can occur for a variety of reasons, spanning anything from insecure passwords

The Queen should be kept out of the Brexit controversy with the establishment of an inner privy council to advise her on proroguing Parliament, Lord Sumption has said. Writing for The Times, the retired UK Supreme Court justice said that the legal challenge to stop Boris Johnson from suspending Parl

New legislation aims to tackle the misuse of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), also known as confidentiality clauses, in the workplace – including those being used to cover up sexual harassment, racial discrimination and assault. NDAs can be used by businesses for a number of legitimate reason

Facebook has been ordered to pay a record-breaking $5 billion penalty by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for privacy violations following an investigation into its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The FTC alleges that Facebook failed to safeguard user data from third parties and used t

Cork firm CDS Law & Tax has announced the appointment of Ross Jackson as solicitor and Cliodhna Murphy as trainee solicitor. Mr Jackson, who qualified as a solicitor in 2010, joins the corporate and commercial department at CDS, where his areas of expertise include corporate restructuring, corpo

A man who was found with drugs valued at nearly €270,000 during a search of his house has had his sentence decreased in the Court of Appeal. Finding that the original sentence of ten years with the final three suspended was “an error of principle” due to the very strong mitigation w

Young solicitors were briefed on key planning and property law issues at a lively CPD event organised by the Dublin Solicitors' Bar Association (DBSA) Younger Members (YM) committee.

Jonny Hacking, associate at A&L Goodbody in Belfast, writes on recent fine notifications issued by the UK's data protection watchdog. In recent weeks you will have seen the high-profile press coverage of the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announcement of its first potential fines

Employment law solicitor Richard Grogan of Richard Grogan & Associates considers recent cases illustrating the different means of recourse for pregnancy-related dismissal. In case ADJ18062, being a case of a waitress and a restaurant, the Adjudication Officer quoted the case of O'Brien –v-

On 30 June 1827, the nephew of a landlord was shot dead in Rathcannon, County Tipperary. Twenty-five-year-old Richard Chadwick was a magistrate and a land agent for his uncle, and had evicted a number of tenants in the Rathcannon area. He had also started building a police barracks in Rathcannon, an

A man who accumulated a total of 47 convictions between October 2015 and March 2017 has lost his challenge against the decision of the Minister for Justice and Equality to make a removal order and a five-year exclusion order against him. Refusing to grant the orders of certiorari sought, Mr Justice