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Women seeking an abortion in Hungary must first listen to their embryo's heartbeat under a new decree. The move by the right-wing government of Viktor Orban indicates a change in the country's liberal laws on abortion by requiring doctors to show women the vital signs of the embryo or foetus.

Arthur Cox LLP provided over 15,000 hours of pro bono legal services in the year up to July 2022, an increase of more than 50 per cent on the previous year, according to a new report. The law firm has launched its second sustainable business impact report, which outlines the firm's work over the pas

France violated the rights of French women it refuses to repatriate from detention camps in north-east Syria, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled. In yesterday's Grand Chamber judgment, the court held by a majority that there had been a violation of Article 3 § 2 of Protocol No

Éilís Barry, chief executive of legal rights group FLAC, has been appointed as an adjunct professor with University College Cork (UCC) School of Law. An expert in anti-discrimination, equality and access to justice, Ms Barry has been working closely with UCC through the Traveller Equal

Matheson LLP has announced the appointment of Maireadh Dale as a senior partner in its finance and capital markets team. Ms Dale, who joins the firm from the Dublin office of another international law firm and was previously part of the international finance team at Bank of Ireland, will work across

Senior Irish legal figures are in New York this week to highlight Ireland's unique attributes as a centre for international legal services to a US audience of senior commercial lawyers, counsel and executives. The intensive three-day visit brings together members of the Law Society, including repres

The Probation Service is playing a bigger role in the development of new legislation following the establishment of its legal and quality assurance (LQA) unit, according to its latest annual report. The LQA unit was established in December 2020 and became operational in January 2021.

Irish solicitor and mediator Bill Holohan SC has begun working with the Pakistan branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators to develop proposals to tackle the country's enormous courts backlog. Mr Holohan was invited by the branch's chair, Mian Sheraz Javaid, to join its legislative committee,

Gateley, the first law firm to float on the London Stock Exchange, has seen its revenue rise by 13 per cent in the past year. The company's turnover for the year to April reached £137.2 million while profit increased by almost 12 per cent to £21.6m. Consequently, earnings per share rose

A new mentorship programme for women studying law at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) is set to be launched later this year. The initiative is led by Trinity Women in Law (TWIL), a subcommittee of the Trinity College Law Society founded in 2019 and sponsored by A&L Goodbody.

The Court of Appeal has significantly reduced an award of damages for a man who suffered multiple injuries in an accident that was described as “the stuff of nightmares”. The man had been injured in an elevator which had fallen three floors after a cable snapped. On appeal, Mr Justice Se

A teenager who allegedly stole a bus to visit his girlfriend has been arrested. The 15-year-old boy from Mattegoda, Sri Lanka, took the drastic action after realising there were no services running he could use to meet his girlfriend as arranged.

A draft decision in a large-scale investigation of TikTok's processing of children's data has been submitted by Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) to other EU authorities. The investigation is one of two own-volition inquiries into TikTok launched by the DPC in September 2021.

Google must pay a €4.125 billion fine after abusing its position to impose unlawful restrictions on smartphone manufacturers and mobile network operators, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled. The General Court today largely confirmed the European Commission's decision th

Michael Madden of Mason Hayes & Curran LLP examines forthcoming changes to Ireland's data retention laws. The Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Act 2022 is intended to amend existing Irish data retention law to address the impact of recent EU case law, including that relating to the