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Mr Justice McCloskey is set to address Northern Ireland's first immigration law conference in Belfast this November. The judge joins Professor Colin Harvey from Queen's University Belfast on the platform at the event organised by the Immigration Practitioners' Group NI.

Lord Wilson, a justice of the Supreme Court, returned to Northwestern University in Chicago this week to urge US law students to "strive tirelessly" to secure the protection and development of human rights. His speech, titled Our Human Rights: A Joint Effort?, looked at the "historical development"

Leading experts in children's rights attended the launch of a new access to justice initiative by the Children's Rights Alliance (CRA) on Monday. The Chief Justice of Ireland, Mr Justice Frank Clarke, joined Professor Geoffrey Shannon, special rapporteur on child protection, at the event in the Four

Complainants in rape cases in some parts of England are being asked to hand over massive amounts of personal information in order to progress police investigations into their allegations, The Guardian reports. Assistant Commissioner Martin Hewitt, lead for adult sexual offences at the National Polic

A restaurant is under investigation over its practice of giving lobsters marijuana to relax them before they're killed and cooked. Charlotte’s Legendary Lobster Pound owner, Charlotte Gill, who is a licensed medical marijuana giver in Maine, cannot currently serve her "smoked" lobster mea

A husband and wife who sought orders of certiorari of International Protection Appeals Tribunal decisions, have had their applications dismissed in the High Court. Describing the husband’s "highly improbable" story of his escape from custody in Ukraine as "cliff-hangingly filmic", Mr Justice

DWF has announced the appointment of construction partner Chris Wheeler to its Dublin office. Mr Wheeler will work with both the energy and commercial property teams while leading the growth of DWF's construction offering in Ireland.

Callan Tansey has announced plans to pilot pre-action protocols in partnership with the Medical Protection Society (MPS) to help keep medical cases out of the Irish courts. The law firm said the use of pre-action protocols, which set out the requirements that parties to a claim must comply with befo

Mr Justice Nicholas Kearns, chair of the Personal Injuries Commission (PIC), has told the Sunday Business Post he is surprised by the Law Society of Ireland's response to its latest report on personal injury awards. The second and final report of the Personal Injuries Commission was given a "ca

The High Court in Belfast has begun hearing three test cases for damages brought on behalf of people who were shot or wounded on Bloody Sunday. Three of 21 civil actions brought by Madden & Finucane Solicitors against the Ministry of Defence were selected as test writs and are being heard now.

The holding of children in single separation at Oberstown Children Detention Campus is set to be scrutinised by the Irish courts for the second time in two years. A 15-year-old boy who alleges that he was unlawfully held in solitary confinement has launched a judicial review in the High Court, The T

Celia Worthington, consultant at Worthington Solicitors in Belfast, writes on a recent case in the Court of Appeal in England and Wales. An essential element to any contract is certainty of terms. A recent case in the Court of Appeal, Robert Bou-Simon –v – BGC Brokers LP, highlighted the

A boxer has won an £8,500 pay-out from the Ulster Boxing Council (UBC) after alleging that he faced discrimination on the basis of perceived religious belief/political opinion. Lewis Crocker, 21, was supported by the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland in taking the case after he was not

Ethiopian authorities have been condemned for their arbitrary arrest of almost 3,000 young people over the weekend. Responding to a statement by Addis Ababa’s police commissioner Major General Degefe Bede that nearly 3,000 youths were arrested in the capital and that 174 would be charged

A journalist who was sentenced to 5,000 years in prison for failing to pay libel damages amounting to £1.2 million has reflected on the state of the profession in Africa. Rodney D Sieh, editor of Liberia's FrontPageAfrica, had run a story that cast doubt on a government audit, finding $6m unac