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Natalie Livingstone’s vivid retelling of the Nuremberg trials shifts the focus from the Nazi defendants to the remarkable women who witnessed, interpreted, chronicled and shaped the proceedings, revealing how their experiences illuminated the moral, political and human legacy of the twentieth

For solicitors who started their career just before the financial crisis of 2008 struck, the timing was both daunting and defining. Newly qualified lawyers were entering a profession gripped by uncertainty in an Ireland faced by economic turbulence. However, there emerged from that singular event a

The ‘CIA book program’ during the Cold War aimed to undermine Soviet censorship and inspire ideas of revolt by offering different visions of thought and culture. This was at a time when the Iron Curtain, forming a long and heavily guarded border, divided Europe. From New York headquarter

For anyone involved in environmental and planning law, getting a major project to consent can sometimes feel like a journey through Dante’s Inferno, one circle after another, writes Maria O'Loan. It is exactly that imagery that Humphreys J reached for in a recent Irish High Court decision: if

As a young journalist visiting Brezhnev’s sclerotic Soviet Union, I felt privileged to be shown around the huge state library in Leningrad, the second largest in the world, by one of the aged librarians who had actually worked there during the horrendous 872-day siege of the city, when the Naz

On Tuesday 4 May 1926, two million British workers withdrew their labour in one of the great failures of industrial management. Politically, many thought events were indicative of something sinister to come, a rising similar to the Russian Revolution of 1917.

Raising the age of criminal responsibility is overdue, but the proposed tiered model risks incoherence unless the scope of serious offence exceptions – particularly for sexual harm – is more clearly defined and justified, writes Professor Kevin J. Brown of Queen’s University Belfas

Expanded Garda surveillance powers risk undermining established data protection safeguards unless necessity, proportionality and oversight remain central to their use, writes the ICCL. CCTV systems can have legitimate purposes, such as securing premises. But, unless CCTV is used proportionately, it

In February 2026 the European Parliament endorsed the creation of an EU-wide list of safe countries of origin. This development comes as part of ongoing efforts to expedite the processing of asylum applications as the new EU Pact on Migration and Asylum (“the Pact”) comes into force June

Businesses may need to rethink how they assess high-risk data processing as moves towards EU-wide standardisation gather pace, write Marie McGinley, Davinia Brennan and Sarah Jayne Hanna. The European Data Protection Board (the EDPB) recently published a draft template Data Protection Impact Assessm

Cantillons Solicitors endorse the sentiments expressed by families of catastrophically injured plaintiffs who are seeking a workable PPO as highlighted by RTÉ, writes Marian Fogarty. We know some parents of catastrophically injured plaintiffs would like to see a workable PPO being made availa

Oz London, No.33, back cover advertising "A Gala Benefit for the Oz Obscenity Trial" The appeal in the English Oz case was heard over three days in November 1971 with the Lord Chief Justice (LCJ), Lord Widgery, chairing a bench of three judges. Going by the written judgment the hearing was as sedate

On 26 February 2026, the Government published the proposed text of the Media Regulation Bill, which will transpose the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA) into Irish law. The EMFA, which, for the most part, entered into force on 8 August 2025, is an EU Regulation aimed at safeguarding the independence

Irish Legal News presents the latest in our series of articles facilitating dialogue between criminal justice policymakers, practitioners and researchers. Here, Dr. Kevin Wozniak and Dr Ian Marder from Maynooth University discuss recent collaborative work which explored how criminal justice organisa

Oz (London) No.33, February 1971. Cover image by Norman Lindsay. In part one of a retrospective on a notorious English obscenity trial, sparked by a subversive depiction of Rupert Bear in the counter-cultural magazine Oz, Scottish silk Ronnie Clancy KC looks at how the case became a defining legal a