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Jon Boutcher, the former Bedfordshire Police chief constable leading Operation Kenova, has been confirmed as interim chief constable of the PSNI. The Northern Ireland Policing Board confirmed the appointment yesterday after it was approved by Northern Ireland secretary Chris Heaton-Harris.

Suspected fraudsters who are alleged to have bought 20 bottles of fine French wine with €95,000 in fake banknotes have been arrested — but the bottles are believed to be lost. The two men and a woman are accused of swindling a Parisian wine merchant out of 18 bottles of Petrus claret, whi

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Israel using white phosphorus in Gaza, Lebanon, endangering civilians: HRW | Al Jazeera

The High Court has granted relief in judicial review of a decision of the District Court to reinstate driving charge following its spoken order dismissing the charge. Delivering judgment for the High Court, Mr Justice Barry O’Donnell determined that whilst the “breast of the court”

Belfast-based GDPR consultancy Briefed has backed calls for governments across the UK and Ireland to introduce statutory leave for employees who have experienced a baby loss. Briefed — a UK-wide company founded and led by three Northern Ireland barristers — is supporting the campaign led

Attorney General Rossa Fanning SC was welcomed to William Fry's offices this week to deliver a keynote address on Ireland's implementation of the EU digital reform package and the government's work to combat hateful content online. Mr Fanning's speech was followed by a fireside chat moderated by Wil

A technical error in legislation requiring single mothers to name the father of their child when registering their birth is to be fixed nearly a decade after it was signed into law. Section 6 of the Civil Registration (Amendment) Act 2014, which concerns the registration of a child's father where th

The Charities Regulator today announced it has appointed inspectors to carry out an investigation into the affairs of the Peter McVerry Trust. The investigation follows concerns arising from correspondence sent by the charity to the regulator in July 2023 and engagement with the charity since then i

Northern Ireland's leading animal welfare charity has called for tougher sentences for animal abusers after a man who kicked a cat to death received only three months' imprisonment. Mark Carson, 44, this week lost an appeal against his three-month sentence in Coleraine County Appeal Court. He previo

New protections for Ireland's historic and archaeological heritage will soon come into effect after being approved by the Oireachtas. The Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023, once enacted, will replace the existing National Monuments Acts 1930–2014 and o

Holmes has announced four high-level strategic appointments across its dispute resolution, corporate, commercial property and public sector units. Ed Kelly has re-joined Holmes as a senior solicitor specialising in commercial litigation and dispute resolution, while Isabel Treacy has joined as a sen

Syria stands accused of torturing tens of thousands of its citizens and maintaining a system of "abhorrent treatment", according to arguments at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the first international case over the Syrian civil war. The case has been brought to the ICJ by both Canada and

A judge who allegedly sent hundreds of text messages mocking lawyers, jurors and witnesses while overseeing a child murder trial is to be removed from the bench. Judge Traci Soderstrom, in Oklahoma, speculated about the size of prosecutors' penises and fawned over a police officer in messages exchan

KPMG has been slapped with a record £21 million fine by the UK's Financial Reporting Council (FRC) over its mishandling of the audits for Carillion, the government contractor that collapsed in 2018. The failure of Carillion, which provided construction and facilities management services within

The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal from orders granting summary judgment in which the appellant belatedly attempted to rely upon the O’Malley judgment. Delivering judgment for the Court of Appeal, Mr Justice Donald Binchy determined that whilst the appellant was entitled to apply to i