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Karen Kearney Karen Kearney, partner and medical negligence solicitor at Cantillons Solicitors in Cork, offers her view of new legislative proposals to allow doctors to admit mistakes or accidents to patients without accepting personal legal liability.

A financial controller who stole €270,000 from a solicitors' firm to pay off her ex-husband’s gambling debts has been jailed for 18 months. Counsel for Donna Magee asked that she be given a week before starting her sentence in order to make arrangements for her 14-year-old child. This was refuse

Health Minister Simon Harris New legislative measures will allow doctors to admit mistakes or accidents to patients without accepting personal legal liability, The Irish Times reports.

The Director of Public Prosecutions has lost an appeal against the “unduly lenient” sentencing of a woman who was given a suspended sentence for violently biting off 9 square centimetres of another woman’s bottom lip. Refusing to alter the sentence, Mr Justice Edwards was satisfied that the wo

Belfast firm Carson McDowell has created the first information law team in Northern Ireland in a response to an increasing demand for work in the sector. With new laws around data protection coming into effect next year, a number of partners from the firm’s healthcare, environmental, commercial an

The directors of a family business in Limerick were given three year suspended sentences when they were found to have deliberately made false tax returns, resulting in an estimated €0.25m loss to the Revenue. The Director of Public Prosecutions appealed contending that the fully suspended sentence

Steve Eckersley, head of enforcement at the ICO A senior barrister who failed to keep clients’ sensitive personal information secure has been fined £1,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

The decision of the Department for the Economy to publish the names of “natural persons” in receipt of Renewal Heat Incentive Scheme funding has been quashed by an order of certiorari, after the High Court found that the decision was in breach of the Data Protection Act 1998. The Department is,

A telephone subscriber’s consent to the publication of his data also covers its use in another member state, the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled. The highly harmonised regulatory framework makes it possible to ensure throughout the EU the same respect for requirements relating to

https://vimeo.com/207645384 Leona Rankin, a solicitor in Carson McDowell's employment team, has been given a prestigious award by the Prime Minister for her work to support people living with sarcoma in Northern Ireland.

Briony Clarke A 31-year-old woman has become the UK's youngest ever female judge just 16 years after beginning her law career, The Telegraph reports.

A woman who was found guilty of the murder of her husband has lost an appeal against the finding that her certificate of conviction for the murder was admissible as evidence to preclude her from inheriting his estate. The woman argued that the certificate was hearsay and could therefore not be admit

Views on applying the insurance law regime to driverless cars are sought by a Commons committee as part of its consideration of a bill intended to modernise the transport system for businesses and passengers. The Public Bill Committee is now accepting written evidence on the Vehicle Technology and A

In a rare move, the High Court yesterday heard from a US NGO permitted to join a major privacy case as amicus curiae. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is appearing as an amicus in the case of Data Protection Commissioner v. Facebook & Max Schrems on privacy protection for transat

Jeanette Donohoe Jeanette Donohoe, director of dispute resolution at Cleaver Fulton Rankin Solicitors in Belfast, explains a recent bankruptcy case.