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On 8 September, Mr Justice Mark Heslin committed Enoch Burke to prison for his failure to comply with a court order restraining him from trespassing at Wilson’s Hospital School. Although Mr Burke had been ordered to stay away from his former place of work since September 2022, a permanent inj

The legal community's collaborative initiative to support Ukrainian refugees in Ireland has been recognised at the Chambers Ireland Sustainable Business Impact Awards 2023. Matheson and A&L Goodbody led the collaborative effort, which involved six other law firms — Arthur Cox, William Fry,

Post Office workers who have had their convictions for theft and false accounting reversed will be offered compensation of £600,000 each, the UK government has said. There are suspicions that evidence from defective accounting software might have influenced approximately 700 prosecutions of br

An English Court of Appeal judge has endorsed the use of ChatGPT but sounded a note of caution on using AI in areas beyond one's expertise. Lord Justice Birss admitted to incorporating content generated by the AI chatbot into a judgment. He described it as "jolly useful" for providing a concise summ

Ireland's Data Protection Commission has imposed fines totalling €345 million on TikTok over GDPR breaches relating to the processing of children's personal data. The DPC's final decision, published today, follows a binding decision by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) last month. Howev

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The Department of Justice has issued a scam warning following the circulation of fraudulent letters relating to extradition.

Almost 98 per cent of women surveyed for a report into violence against women in Northern Ireland experienced at least one form of violence or abuse in their lifetime. The report, 'Every Voice Matters!' Violence Against Women in Northern Ireland, led by Ulster University, also reveals that seven out

Northern Ireland personal injury and road traffic accident law firm JMK Solicitors has formally opened a new office in west Belfast, located on the Andersonstown Road. Established in 2003, and with offices also located in Belfast City Centre, Newry, and Derry~Londonderry, JMK has successfully helped

The PSNI expects to pay out up to £180 million as a result of litigation brought in response to its recent data breach, the force has said. Assistant chief constable Chris Todd told Westminster's Northern Ireland affairs committee that the breach could cost the force up to £240 million i

A reprimand issued to Airbnb by Ireland's data protection authority can help other businesses comply with rules on data minimisation and retention in the GDPR and avoid "purpose creep", Pinsent Masons partner Andreas Carney has said. The Data Protection Commission (DPC) recently published its decisi

A German court has rejected the extradition of an Albanian man to the UK over concerns about British prison conditions — in the second judgment of its kind this year. In June, an Irish court made the same decision when it declined to extradite an individual to Scotland, citing concerns that he

A lawyer representing a woman who was named on a poster as having links to the PSNI has called on the force to make a public statement confirming that she is not a police officer. Michael Madden, of Madden & Finucane Solicitors, is representing the woman, whose details were included on a poster

Dublin firm McGrath Mullan LLP has welcomed Elaine O'Sullivan, Eoghan McMahon, Hannah Clinton and Taise Azevedo as partners. In a statement, the firm said: "The entire team at McGrath Mullan LLP is excited about this new chapter. As we welcome our new partners, the firm is not only poised for contin

Matheson partners Davinia Brennan, Anne-Marie Bohan, Deirdre Crowley, Carlo Salizzo and Michael Byrne and senior associate Connor Cassidy examine a recent DPC decision dealing with the scope of legal professional privilege restrictions under data protection law. The Data Protection Commission (DPC)