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Dublin solicitor Áine Flynn, formerly of KOD Lyons, has been appointed as the inaugural director of the Decision Support Service (DSS), a new part of the Mental Health Commission. The new service is set to be established under part 9 of the Assisted Decision Making (Capacity) Act 2015, which

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has unveiled a new bill revising Ireland's data protection laws and giving effect to recent European court rulings.

The European Commission has referred Ireland to the European Court of Justice for failing to recover €13 billion from Apple which it has judged to be illegal tax benefits under EU state aid rules. The Commission concluded last August that Ireland's tax benefits to Apple allowed the company to pay

Irish citizen Ibrahim Halawa has still yet to be released from prison in Cairo due to paperwork delays, The Irish Times reports. Mr Halawa was acquitted two weeks ago after four years of pre-trial detention and a major international campaign for his release.

A law graduate studying for his PhD at Queen's University Belfast is preparing to sue the uni for disability discrimination, Legal Cheek reports. Christopher Mallon, who was a teaching associate at QUB School of Law until April this year, claims that a "catalogue of failings" led to his alleged cons

The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) will today call for a referendum to abolish the Eighth Amendment and legislation to provide access to publicly-funded abortion, The Irish Times reports. In a significant move, the Commission will reportedly call for abortion to be decriminalised

A shareholder in Conroy Gold and Natural Resources PLC has lost his application for declarations that the appointment of three new directors to the company’s Board were valid. Finding that there was a failure to comply with the notification requirements in the company’s articles of association,

The High Court has asked the European Court of Justice to rule on the validity under EU law of EU-US data transfers by Facebook. The Data Protection Commissioner requested the referral following a complaint by Austrian privacy campaigner Max Schrems about Facebook’s use of so-called standard contr

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan The legal regulator has submitted a report to Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan on its public consultation on allowing barristers to accept instructions from non-solicitors.

Alyson Kilpatrick The Northern Ireland Policing Board has been unable to renew the appointment of its human rights adviser because of the collapse of devolution, The Irish News reports.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdyea7Ty4yg Matheson has published a video interview with EU Commissioner Phil Hogan as part of its Beyond Brexit video series.

The President, Deputy President and three new justices were sworn into the UK Supreme Court this week, marking the beginning of the new legal year: Lady Hale of Richmond as President; Lord Mance as Deputy President; Lady Black of Derwent as Justice; Lord Lloyd-Jones as Justice and Lord Briggs of We

Bill Holohan Legislation to promote the use of mediation as an alternative to court proceedings has been signed into law by President Michael D. Higgins.

Charges against ten of the 11 Jobstown water charge protesters have been formally dropped. Cheers broke out and air horns sounded in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court yesterday after Judge Melanie Greally formally discharged all but one of the remaining Jobstown accused.

Attorney General John Larkin Attorney General John Larkin has published a call for applications for the job of Director of Public Prosecutions, the Belfast Telegraph reports.