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A court has ruled by a majority that the rectum is "inherently personal and private" after limiting how police can perform body cavity searches. Guntallwon Brown was arrested in 2015 after he sold an undercover officer crack cocaine then hid a bag of the substance in his backside.

The ‘truly exceptional’ personal and family circumstances of a mentally-ill woman have been found to outweigh the public interest in her extradition to the US, where she faces five alleged offences of drug trafficking and money laundering. Finding that the woman’s surrender to the

A hospital has lost an appeal against the finding that the two-year limitation period for issuing personal injury proceedings began when the plaintiff received a doctor’s medical report based on hospital records – not when he was informed in the weeks after his surgery that he had contra

A man who was awarded €96,403 in personal injury proceedings against Tallaght Hospital has had his award upheld by the Supreme Court. The hospital argued that the claim was statute barred in circumstances where the hospital’s omission to carry out a CT scan occurred in 2007, and the perso

A massive dataset of personal information from 553 million Facebook users which surfaced online over the weekend may predate the GDPR, the Data Protection Commission (DPC) has said. In a statement yesterday, the watchdog said it is continuing to "establish the full facts" in connection with the data

The High Court has awarded both personal damages and repayment to the company in an unfair prejudice claim against a Coleraine company which voted to oust a founding shareholder. The petitioner, Mr Fergus Shaw, sought relief under section 994 of the Companies Act 2006 on the grounds that the affairs

Northern Ireland personal injury firm JMK Solicitors has appointed six long-standing team members as directors in the firm.

An agreement that allowed technology companies and others to send personal data from the EU to the US has been declared invalid by the European Court of Justice (ECJ). Following the opinion of Advocate General Yves Bot, the court has ruled that the Safe Harbour agreement did not eliminate the abilit

A leaked UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) document which called on member states to consider “decriminalising drug use and possession for personal consumption” does not represent UNODC policy, the UN office has clarified. The two-page briefing paper was solely intended for “dissemination a

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin The Oireachtas justice committee has unanimously recommended the effective decriminalisation of drug possession for personal use in a landmark report published today.

Six wrongful death lawsuits and seven personal injury lawsuits related to the Berkeley balcony collapse are set to be consolidated and heard by one judge. Judge George Hernandez jnr told the Superior Court of California, County of Alameda yesterday that it “makes sense for one judge to hear all of

European Commission vice-president Andrus Ansip The EU and US have reached an agreement on a new scheme to allow companies to move personal data across the Atlantic following months of negotiations.

Martin Hanna, APIL's executive committee member for Northern Ireland The UK-wide Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) has criticised Northern Ireland's Department of Justice (DoJ) over proposals to abolish legal aid as a method of funding legal cases for money damages.

Andrus Ansip Lawyers have welcomed more information about the new regime governing the transfer of personal data between the EU and the US.

Jobs Minister Richard Bruton Jobs Minister Richard Bruton has met with key members of the judiciary in a bid to tackle "inflated" personal injury compensation awards, the Irish Independent reports.