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Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan yesterday signed Commencement and Establishment Day orders for the Data Protection Act 2018. The Act completed all stages in the Houses of the Oireachtas on Tuesday and has been enacted in advance of the coming into force of the General Data Protection Regulation (G

There is just one day left to contribute to Liberty’s legal fees in its fight against the UK government over the Snoopers’ Charter. The Investigatory Powers Act – or Snoopers’ Charter – lets the government monitor records of everyone’s texts, emails and calls. It means everybody’s web

A federal judge has ruled that President Trump cannot legally block Twitter users as doing so violates their First Amendment right to free speech under the Constitution, Reuters reports. U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald did not order Mr Trump to unblock users but said she expected him or his

John Dugdale John Dugdale, associate at A&L Goodbody in Belfast, comments on a recent landmark decision on the occupation of a car park premises.

In an address given in London this month, UK Supreme Court President Lady Hale looks at privacy and publicity in the context of the family justice system. She touches on the Supreme Court’s case law, including Reilly v Sandwell MBC, Khuja v Times Newspapers Ltd and PJS v News Group Newspapers and

Amanda-Jayne Comyn Dublin firm Philip Lee has announced the appointment of Amanda-Jayne Comyn as a partner in the firm's tax department.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has been fined £325,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after it lost unencrypted DVDs containing recordings of police interviews. The DVDs contained recordings of interviews with 15 victims of child sex abuse, to be used at the trial.

The Supreme Court has begun hearing an appeal by a mixed-sex couple who are fighting to have a civil partnership instead of a marriage. London-based couple Rebecca Steinfeld, 36, and Charles Keidan, 40, lost their case at the Court of Appeal last February following a ruling that said they could not

The UK government has apologised for its role in a Libyan dissident's 2004 abduction, torture and rendition to Libya. In a letter, Prime Minister Theresa May acknowledged that an MI6 tip-off allowed Abdul Hakim Belhaj and his wife, Fatima Boudchar, to be detained by US forces in Thailand.

A man who was involuntarily detained in a psychiatric unit for 16 months, despite his consultant psychiatrist expressing the view that he had recovered sufficiently to be discharged after 6 months, has been granted a declaration that the section of the Mental Health Act 2001 used to authorise his co

A judge has said it is unfair that fraud cases are coming before the courts four years after they were committed. Judge Patrick Quinn made his comments when sentencing a man who stole €4,300 in 2014 from a small financial services firm that employed him.

Emily Logan The Court of Appeal has ruled that section 15(3) of the Mental Health Act 2001 is unconstitutional, but has suspended its formal declaration of unconstitutionality for a period of six months.

Pictured (l-r): David Stanton, Charlie Flanagan and Frances Fitzgerald Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan paid tribute to his predecessor, Frances Fitzgerald, as the Domestic Violence Bill 2017 completed its journey through both houses of the Oireachtas.

The High Court has ruled that Facebook cannot stall the referral of 11 questions on EU-US data transfers to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), The Irish Times reports. Ms Justice Caroline Costello agreed last October to a request from the Data Protection Commissioner to make the refe

The High Court has declined to make a final determination on the surrender of a man to Poland on foot of a European Arrest Warrant. Stating that the outcome of questions referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) by the High Court in March 2018 could have an impact on the present