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The High Court has made an order for the return of two children who were wrongfully removed from Canada without their father’s consent in February 2019. Rejecting all of the individual objections raised by the children’s mother, Ms Justice Aileen Donnelly said none of

A law firm has been ordered to pay more than £250,000 to a solicitor who was paid less than her male colleagues. Margaret (Peggy) Mercer took an equal pay case against Belfast-based commercial law firm C & H Jefferson Solicitors, which has now merged with multinational firm DWF.

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has announced that the Government has today approved his proposals for the drafting of general schemes to extend the circumstances in which recording devices, including body-worn cameras, can be used by An Garda Síochána and to codify police power

People on bail were responsible for more than one in nine of all crimes recorded last year, the Irish Examiner reports. Figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) indicate that these include one in seven of all murder and manslaughter cases.

Yvonne Joyce, a partner at Comyn Kelleher Tobin takes a look at legislation altering the coronial regime. The Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018 was published by Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan on 2nd August 2018. The Bill proposes significant amendments to the current legislation including:

The Polish legislation concerning the lowering of the retirement age of judges of the Supreme Court is contrary to EU law, the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled. Lawyers for the country's government had argued that the law was meant to bring the judicial retirement age into line with

Scottish advocates (barristers) Shane Dundas and Michael Way, were the winners of an inaugural moot between Scottish devils and Northern Ireland pupil barristers held in Court 9 of the Court of Session, Scotland's supreme civil court, on Friday in Edinburgh. Organised by the Faculty of Adv

France has banned research on judicial behaviour in an attempt to suppress the litigation analytics and predictions sector with a new law that carries a maximum jail term of five years. The law, in Article 33 of the Justice Reform Act, aims to stop anyone, but particularly legal tech companies, from

English nationalism is the greatest threat to the Union in more than half a century, David Lidington told a Law Society of Scotland event yesterday. The de facto deputy prime minister said he was shocked by a poll from YouGov which found that 63 per cent of UK Conservative Party members would p

A ban on trademarks of "immoral" or "scandalous" words and symbols has been struck down by the US Supreme Court in a case involving a clothing brand with a sensitive name. Ruling against the Trump administration, the court found for Los Angeles streetwear designer Erik Brunetti who had failed in an

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has fined telecoms company EE Limited £100,000 for sending over 2.5 million direct marketing messages to its customers, without consent. The messages, sent in early 2018, encouraged customers to access and use the ‘My EE’ app to manage th

A man has been fined after he branded a shark with his personal insignia. The incident outraged anglers after photos appeared on Facebook.

A convicted murderer who was sanctioned upon the discovery of a knife and a bag of razor blades in his cell has lost an application for judicial review of decisions made during the disciplinary process. Refusing the application, Ms Justice Miriam O’Regan found no breach of fair procedure on th

A boy who sued a hospital over circumstances of his birth has settled his High Court action for €7.25million. Finn Phillips, 13, who is on the autism spectrum, was delivered on July 30, 2005, by ventouse delivery and – it was alleged – was unnecessarily exposed to trauma and asphyxi

Andrea Martin comments on social media regulation in the wake of the Ana Kriegel case. Two 14-year-old boys have become the youngest convicted murderers in the history of the State after being found guilty of the murder of 14-year-old Ana Kriégel.