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Belfast-based Johnsons Solicitors have presented a £400 cheque to the Alzheimer's Society as part of the firm's year-round fundraising.

The High Court has today ruled part of the UK government’s flagship surveillance law, the Investigatory Powers Act, is unlawful – following a legal challenge from human rights campaigning organisation Liberty. In this first stage of its challenge to the law, Liberty focused on government powers

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan Legislation to transpose the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) into Irish law has come before the Dáil for second stage debate.

In a landmark ruling, the High Court in London has ordered search giant Google to remove search results concerning historic offending by a claimant with spent criminal convictions. London-based law firm Carter-Ruck acted for two claimants, NT1 and NT2, in what it said were "unprecedented cases" whic

Pictured (l-r): Kevin Hoy and Declan Black Mason Hayes & Curran has announced the appointment of Kevin Hoy as chair of the firm, taking over from Emer Gilvarry.

A total of 11 questions will be referred to the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) on the validity under EU law of EU-US data transfers by Facebook, the Irish Examiner reports. The High Court agreed last October to a request from the Data Protection Commissioner to make the referral following a compl

Northern Ireland saw amongst the strongest pick-ups in house prices across the UK in the first quarter of the year, according to the latest RICS and Ulster Bank UK Residential Market Survey. However, newly agreed sales and demand for property in the form of new buyer enquiries are both easing, with

A woman given nearly £10 million after she split from her husband has had her maintenance brought to an end by senior judges, The Brief reports. Kim Waggott, 49, was told by appeal judges to get a job if she needs more money.

A man who was sentenced to nine years imprisonment, with the final year suspended, has had his appeal against the severity of his sentence dismissed by the Court of Appeal. Delivering the judgment of the three-judge Court, Mr Justice Mahon said that the abuse suffered by the man’s victims was asso

A man who was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for deception involving a vulnerable woman who was swindled out of €90,000 has lost an appeal against the severity of his sentence. Finding that the sentencing judge had not erred in fixing a headline sentence of 4.5 years where the maximum sent

Niall McMullan Niall McMullan, associate partner at Worthingtons Solicitors, writes on the value of personal data ahead of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) entering effect.

Lisa McKenna McKenna & Co Solicitors have announced the opening of their new office at 56 Fitzwilliam Square North in the heart of Dublin.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel The mayor of Chicago will receive an honorary doctorate from NUI Galway at a ceremony today.

A sheriff in Alabama has bought a beach house with cash budgeted for prisoners' food under a law dating back to the 1930s. Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin legally pocketed $750,000 from the fund for prisoners' food provision and then bought a $740,000 beach house, a reporter from The Birmingham

David Fagan David Fagan, solicitor and senior business consultant with Business Legal, writes on the upcoming EU General Data Protection Regulation.