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Niamh Sweeney is to be appointed as a commissioner for data protection. There will now three data protection commissioners, following the appointment of Dr Des Hogan and Dale Sunderland in February 2024.

A new podcast series co-hosted by former Supreme Court judge Ms Justice Marie Baker will analyse recent divorce and judicial separation cases. The Bar of Ireland will release the podcast — co-hosted by Clare Collins SC — every Thursday for six weeks, beginning this Thursday 18 September.

The deputy president of the UK Supreme Court has entered the debate over the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), suggesting its terms may need to be “reconsidered” to address challenges posed by migration. Lord Hodge said the UK should consider working with other countries to pre

Tributes have been paid to human rights lawyer Professor Conor Gearty KC following his sudden passing at the age of 67. Professor Gearty, who was born in Ireland and studied law at University College Dublin before moving to England in the 1980s, was a widely-respected scholar as well as a pract

Belfast law firm Edwards Solicitors has said it is extremely disappointed and frustrated over the failure to make an offer of compensation to thousands of officers and staff involved in the PSNI data breach. In a review hearing yesterday, the High Court was told that despite a business case for a un

The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal against conviction on grounds that the trial judge was not required to charge the jury on the defence of necessity in respect of the appellant’s trespassing in a high-security area of Shannon Airport Delivering judgment for the Court of Appeal, Mr Ju

The High Court has admitted into evidence letters entitled “without prejudice save as to costs” in circumstances where they contained implicit threats designed to place improper pressure on the defendant to settle the proceedings Delivering judgment for the High Court, Mr Justice Mark Sa

A lawyer who shares his name with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is suing the social media platform for repeatedly deactivating his account. In eight years, Mark Steven Zuckerberg, a bankruptcy lawyer in Indianapolis, has seen his official Facebook page suspended five times and his personal profil

Over 32,000 borrowers have been supported by the Abhaile national mortgage arrears resolution service since its establishment in 2016, according to new figures. Abhaile provides free financial and legal advice to borrowers with mortgage arrears to help them put in place solutions that keep them in t

A challenge to the new framework for the transfer of personal data between the European Union and the United States has been dismissed by the EU's General Court. French legislator Philippe Latombe brought the legal challenge to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF), which was introduced after two p

Two of Northern Ireland’s leading law firms have joined forces to create a new practice with an all-Ireland reach.

The Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) is facing a challenge after refusing to release documentation relating to the selection process for new judges. Unsuccessful applicants have called for greater transparency and sought access to records concerning their individual applications under the Free

An obituary for the Mr Justice Declan Budd has been published by the Sunday Independent. "Declan Budd, a former High Court and Court of ­Criminal Appeal judge and ­president of the Law ­Reform Commission, has died at the age of 82.Born in Dublin on July 27, 1943, he grew up in Donnybrook

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. China's Xi makes second-ever visit to Tibet as president

A new scholarship backed by Tracey Solicitors LLP is to offer support to Maynooth law students from disadvantaged backgrounds. The Tracey Solicitors LLP Scholarship in Law and Criminology will be open to final-year law students registered with Maynooth University's access programme (MAP).