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Protesters are calling on Serbia's finance minister to resign after it emerged that he had plagiarised parts of his PhD thesis. Ivanka Popovic, Dean of Belgrade University, has confirmed that Sinisa Mali's doctorate will be annulled.

A man who was unfairly dismissed and awarded €24,000 has had his award of compensation increased to €35,000 in an appeal brought by his former employer. Finding serious procedural failings in the disciplinary process which led to the man’s dismissal, Chairman Kevin Foley also said he

Whitney Moore has announced the promotion of Marie Claire Scullion, Vicky Riordan and Colin Hayes to partners in the firm's employment and dispute resolution teams. Ms Scullion is an employment and data protection specialist, providing pragmatic and commercial advice to employers and employees on al

More than 1,250 people have been made wards of court since legislators approved an overhaul of capacity law which has yet to come into force. The Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 aims to provide a modern statutory framework to support decision-making by adults with capacity difficulties,

The PSNI has been granted permission to appeal a landmark ruling on legacy investigations to the UK Supreme Court. The Court of Appeal in Belfast ruled in March that the Chief Constable of the PSNI had not demonstrated the independence of the PSNI's Legacy Investigation Branch, which is necessary fo

Law students Caoimhe Gethings and Andrea Whelton of UCD Sutherland School of Law have emerged as winners of the 10th National Moot Court Competition.

Garda stations in Dublin and Kerry have been piloting video-link access to Irish Sign Language interpreters in anticipation of new legislation coming into effect. An Garda Síochána partnered with the Centre for Deaf Studies at Trinity College Dublin and Sign Language Interpreting Servi

The European Convention on Human Rights Law Review now has an online submission system.

Lawyers and campaigners discussed the human rights of refugees and asylum seekers last night after a series of film screenings jointly hosted by the Immigration Practitioners' Group (IPG) and Queen's University Belfast (QUB). Solicitor Sinead Marmion, secretary of the IPG, introduced the "Silent Cri

A law firm must pay damages to the estate of a late coal miner who missed a chance of claiming compensation because he was given negligent advice, the UK Supreme Court has ruled. Arthur Watkins was an employee of British Coal from 1964 to 1985 and, as a result, developed the condition known as vibra

Internet giants Facebook and Google pose a systemic threat to human rights because of their "surveillance-based business models", Amnesty International has warned in a new report. The human rights group's Surveillance Giants report argues that the companies "control the primary channels that people

A judge has ruled that dozens of ducks can keep on quacking in spite of complaints from a neighbour. The fate of 60 ducks and geese living in an enclosure kept by retired farmer Dominique Douthe was momentarily up in the air.

A pedestrian who was struck by a driver on an N road in Longford has had his personal injuries claim against the driver dismissed in the High Court. Stating that the case turned on the appropriate application of The Rules of the Road, Mr Justice David Keane said that if the pedestrian had followed t

Mason Hayes & Curran has announced the promotion of David Ormsby to partner in the firm's dispute resolution team. Mr Ormsby, previously a senior associate with the firm, practices in corporate and personal insolvency law and all related litigation.