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A health and social care trust is set to pay out £20 million to the family of a nine-year-old girl who suffered a serious brain injury at birth in one of Northern Ireland's largest-ever medical negligence settlements. The High Court in Belfast has approved the settlement, which follows legal a

Our regular round-up of deals involving Irish law firms. Submit your deals to newsdesk@irishlegal.com. Irish PPE specialist MJ Scannell has been acquired by Groupe RG, a major player in the distribution of PPE in France.

Park authorities in the US have urged members of the public not to lick their psychedelic toads. The National Park Service took to social media last week to discourage visitors from searching for and licking Sonoran Desert toads, also known as Colorado River toads.

Judges must verify on their own initiative that migrants and asylum seekers are being detained lawfully, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled. The court today handed down its judgment in a case referred by the Netherlands Council of State and the District Court of The Hague, w

Nathan Campbell and Laura Gooding of Cleaver Fulton Rankin consider a recent court ruling on nationality. In a previous article, we covered the case of Re Ní Chuinneagain where the High Court did not accept that the conferral of British citizenship on the applicant, who was born in Northern I

Sarah Slevin of RDJ LLP considers what's next in the long-running saga around EU-US data transfers. Ted Lasso may be one of the US’s most famous recent fictional exports to this side of the Atlantic, but it is transfers in the other direction that recently made headlines.

Government proposals to reform the inspection of prisons will not allow Ireland to ratify the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture (OPCAT), the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has said. The rights body will become the co-ordinating national preventative mechanism (NPM) u

The High Court has determined that a will which was revoked by a testator should be admitted to probate because it was only destroyed on foot of incorrect legal advice. The deceased had been told by his solicitor that the destruction of his will would revive a prior will. Delivering judgment in the

Mr Justice Stephen Fowler has been appointed as president of the Historical Institutional Abuse Redress Board. The High Court judge yesterday took on the role from Mr Justice Ian Huddleston, who was appointed to the role just last year.

Former State pathologist Dr Marie Cassidy has been presented with the Praeses Elit Award by Trinity College Law Society. The award was presented by Ruth Brady, auditor of the Law Society, at an event organised by secretary Eoin Ryan and sponsored by Arthur Cox LLP.

The extradition of a man from the UK to the USA to face trial for drug dealing and trafficking — with the possibility of being sentenced to life imprisonment without parole — would not violate his human rights, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled. In the Grand Chamber ju

Conleth Bradley SC has been appointed to the board of directors of the Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation. The registered charity, established in 1974 in response to the conflict in Northern Ireland, works with individuals and groups in Ireland and around the world to transform conflict, p

New EU proposals on short-term lets will require platforms like Airbnb to collect and share more information to help policy-makers ensure their balanced development as part of a sustainable tourism sector. The European Commission has adopted a proposal for a regulation on data collection and sharing

Community Law & Mediation (CLM) has urged the Irish government to ensure its climate action plan for 2023 aligns with Ireland's legal obligations on climate change, while addressing the energy crisis and safeguarding marginalised communities. An open letter sent by the independent law centre to

Northern Ireland’s High Court has refused an application for judicial review where it was alleged that a same-sex couple suffered discrimination after being denied access to a publicly-funded IVF scheme. The court found that the criteria for obtaining access to the scheme were rational and pro