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Photo credit: UK Supreme Court The UK Supreme Court will hear a landmark challenge to "attempts by the UK government to conceal the role of a top MI6 officer in renditions to Libya".

Seven members, including five new members, have been nominated to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC). Following 149 applications in an open competitive process, seven individuals have been nominated by Cabinet for appointment for a five-year term.

TDs will vote this evening on Ireland's ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD). Ireland signed the international agreement in March 2007 and is the last country in the European Union to ratify it.

Courthouses in counties Dublin, Kildare, Louth, Wicklow and Meath were closed this morning after Met Éireann issued a Status Red weather alert.

The daughter of a farmer whose inheritance of the family farm was awarded to her brother in the High Court on the basis of promissory estoppel has lost her appeal against the finding that the entirety of the lands should have been awarded. However, Mr Justice Michael Peart varied the order of the Hi

Members of the Midlands Solicitors Bar Association welcomed Law Society president Michael Quinlan and director general Ken Murphy to their recent successful AGM in Tullamore.

Matheson closed its doors yesterday as a mark of respect to the late Cara O'Hagan, who passed away following a short illness. Ms O'Hagan, 44, was a highly-respected lawyer and head of Matheson's commercial real estate department, having joined as a solicitor's apprentice in 1996.

Pro-choice legal students, scholars and practitioners braved the icy weather to attend the first Lawyers for Choice open meeting of the year at Trinity College Dublin yesterday evening.

Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon The number of complaints received by Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon rose by nearly 80 per cent last year, new figures show.

Mr Justice Gerard Hogan The Court of Appeal has handed down its final order in a case focusing on what it means to be a "voluntary patient" in a psychiatric hospital.

The number of UK cases at the European Court of Human Rights rose by nearly 30 per cent last year, new figures show. In 2017 there were 512 cases lodged against the UK at the Strasbourg court, though more than 99 per cent were declared inadmissible.

Aoife Kavanagh At the age of 22, Irish law graduate Aoife Moore Kavanagh has become one of the youngest-ever people to pass the New York bar exam.

Lord Briggs In a speech entitled "Dispute Resolution in Uncertain Times", delivered in January at the Peace Palace in The Hague, Lord Briggs discusses dispute resolution in the context of globalism.

The High Court will today hear the first part of Liberty’s legal challenge to the UK government’s flagship surveillance law, the Investigatory Powers Act. The challenge has been funded by donations from members of the public, who gave more than £50,000.

Over 40 local businesses learned about "nudge theory" from self-described "mentalist" David Meade at a seminar hosted by Pinsent Masons and the Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce.