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Chinese fast fashion giant Shein has been accused of breaking EU consumer laws in a coordinated action involving Ireland's consumer watchdog, the EU and other national authorities. Ireland's Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC), along with national consumer authorities in Belgium, F

As the GDPR turns seven, William Fry lawyers Rachel Hayes and India Delaney consider new EU proposals to amend the landmark data protection law. On 25 May 2025, we marked the seventh anniversary of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming into effect. Over the past seven years, the GDPR

Microsoft is facing what has been described as Ireland's first class action lawsuit after the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) today launched proceedings in the High Court in Dublin. The legal action, brought under the new EU Collective Redress Directive, alleges that the "real-time bidding"

The High Court has rejected an application by a party to a dispute concerning a share purchase agreement in circumstances where the terms thereof required the parties to engage in an expert determination process and where that process had yet to commence. Delivering judgment for the High Court, Mr J

A judge has apologised after being suspended without pay for telling "exceptionally bad jokes". Judge Gary Farmer, based in Florida, cracked jokes at the expense of defendants, including one man who he was told was expecting the birth of three children with different mothers.

McCay Legal has acquired Omagh firm James McNulty & Co Solicitors, bringing its total headcount to 23 staff across Derry, Strabane and Omagh. James McNulty & Co has been serving the people of Tyrone since 1931, offering services such as residential conveyancing, wills and estates, and person

Dear Taoiseach Micheál Martin, We, the undersigned, members of the legal profession and academy, are writing to express our deep concern at the Irish Government’s continued failure to take the necessary steps to comply with its international legal obligations in relation to the crisis i

A legal challenge has been launched in the Northern Ireland courts over the alleged state funding of companies linked to the provision of F-35 fighter jets to Israel. Madden & Finucane Solicitors is acting in the judicial review proceedings lodged at the High Court in Belfast yesterday.

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Russia outlaws Amnesty International in latest crackdown on dissent and activists | ABC News

Robert Shiels reviews a new book on the less popular of the two things said to be certain in life. Death scholarship is well-established. Dr Molly Conisbee, a visiting fellow at the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath, has studied many aspects of death and mourning.

A Westminster committee has called for the resignation of the chief executive of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), which investigates potential miscarriages of justice in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. A report from the justice select committee says the CCRC's leadership "has shown

An Irish lawyer has welcomed an Italian court ruling that women in same-sex relationships who conceive children abroad through IVF should both be named as mothers on their children's birth certificates. Italy's Constitutional Court yesterday ruled that it was discriminatory not to include the names

New legislation is under consideration in Northern Ireland to tackle the use of mobile phone by motorists while driving. The Department for Infrastructure is carrying out a 12-week public consultation on plans to make it illegal to use a handheld mobile while driving for activities like taking photo

A first-of-its-kind research study into the operation of the in camera rule in family law proceedings has been published by the Department of Justice. Researchers from University College Cork and Trinity College Dublin have made 21 recommendations for reform, while affirming that family law proceedi

More than 200 Matheson lawyers have attended the University of Cambridge's business school over the course of a partnership launched 10 years ago.