Analysis

Robert Shiels reviews a new book on the psychology of killing with drones. Remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) were used initially for surveillance but, increasingly and cost-effectively, are of value when armed with guided weapons for precise targeting.

Arthur Cox NI partner William Curry considers a recent English court ruling highlighting the importance of precise legal drafting in ensuring there is no scope for ambiguity.  For anyone involved in the drafting, negotiation and implementation of contracts, it is vitally important that all part

Kane Tuohy employment lawyer Triona Cody examines the recent High Court decision in Philip Nolan and Science Foundation Ireland [2024] IEHC 368, which clarifies the law on “no fault” termination and the test for determining injunctive relief. On 27 May 2024, the board of Science Foundati

For the first time ever, cases have been listed for hearing during the Long Vacation. Described as a pilot project, the government has demanded longer court sittings in exchange for additional judicial resources. Killian Flood explains why the move is yet another careless decision taken by the gover

Gateley Legal NI legal director Jonathan Jackson discusses the key insights of a review of Northern Ireland's defamation laws. Published earlier this summer, the Department of Finance’s review of the Defamation Act (NI) 2022 analyses the 2022 Act’s implementation to date and identifies c

Mason Hayes & Curran partners Gearoid Carey and Gerard Kelly examine a recent English decision confirming that a party cannot seek to take advantage of its own breach to avoid obligations it owes to a counterparty. The essential principle that a party cannot seek to take advantage of its own wro

All eyes are on Paris and the publishers are cashing in on the Olympics with a raft of new books focussing on ‘The City of Light’, writes Graham Ogilvy.

Irish Legal News presents the first in a new series of articles facilitating dialogue between criminal justice policymakers/practitioners and academic researchers. In today's piece, the Policing Authority poses questions about procedural justice (PJ) to researchers at Maynooth University and Univers

William Fry partner Barry Scannell provides a comprehensive guide to the EU's new AI Act. Today, 1 August 2024, marks a watershed moment in the regulation of artificial intelligence as the EU Artificial Intelligence Act officially enters into force.

A&L Goodbody partner Michael Doyle welcomes the first WRC ruling on the right to request remote work. The Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023 was enacted in April 2023 and provides employees with a right to request remote work.

Mason Hayes & Curran partners Gearoid Carey and Gerard Kelly examine a recent English decision concerning what was alleged to be an irrecoverable penalty in a financing agreement. The English Court of Appeal has recently considered the legal effect of a default interest provision in a financing

Dear Editor, I very much enjoyed Graham Ogilvy’s review of the ‘Lavery on Location’ exhibition at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh.

If you are in Edinburgh during the Festival be sure to visit the National Gallery’s new Lavery on Location exhibition – a well-curated tour de force of the works of Sir John Lavery, the Irish Impressionist who carved out a distinguished career for himself and became one of Britain’

The monograph The Signature in Law: From the Thirteenth Century to the Facsimile explores the judicial development of the concept of the signature from the 13th century to the age of the facsimile transmission and telex — that is, down to 1990. The concept of the signature is considered in its

Róisín McGrath examines the continuing barriers to abortion access nearly six years after the repeal of the Eighth Amendment. In 2018, Ireland voted by a majority of 66.4 per cent to repeal the Eighth Amendment (Art 40.3.3 Bunreacht na hÉireann), which legalised abortion up to 1