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The Director of Public Prosecutions has successfully appealed the finding that a trial judge misdirected a jury in a prison officer’s trial for possession of €6,000 worth of drugs. In the Court of Appeal, the man’s conviction for possession was overturned on grounds related to the a

Leading Irish lawyers voiced frustration with Britain's lack of progress on the issue of human rights protections after Brexit at the Hibernian Law Journal's annual lecture.

John McKee Solicitors will offer a wider range of claims solutions services to insurance composite NFU Mutual following its reappointment to its revised legal panel. The Belfast firm is one of four legal services firms selected to support the delivery of the group's claims strategy.

A justice of the Supreme Court of Canada will deliver a keynote lecture in Dublin this month to launch the Palles Society for Private Law. Mr Justice Russell Brown, who was appointed to the Supreme Court in 2015, will address lawyers on Thursday 22 November on "Indeterminacy in the Duty of Care Anal

Data protection experts considered the potential for data breaches to become the personal injury claim of the future at a seminar hosted by DWF in Dublin. Following the implementation of the Data Protection Act 2018, panellists DWF partner Eimear Collins, Paul Anthony McDermott SC and Professor Eoin

Lawyers at international law firm Simmons & Simmons celebrated the opening of its Dublin office at the official launch event.

The High Court has ordered the surrender of a man who claimed he would be subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment in Northern Ireland's Maghaberry Prison if extradited to face a murder charge. The man, who cannot be named due to a court order, is wanted to face a charge of murdering 30-year-old

Employment law solicitor Richard Grogan of Richard Grogan & Associates writes on a recent High Court case on the importance of fair procedures. The issue of fair procedures in disciplinary matters has recently been decided by the High Court in a judgment by Mr Justice Bernard Barton delivered on

More than 80 lawyers and legal academics are among the 1,000 signatories of an open letter calling on Taoiseach Leo Varadkar to ensure the rights of Irish citizens in Northern Ireland are protected after Brexit. The letter has been published in a double-page advert in The Irish News today and follow

Lawyers have urged Theresa May and MPs to support the People's Vote on Brexit, arguing in a letter that “democratic government is not frozen in time”. Among the signatories is Sir David Edward, a former Scottish judge and European Court of Justice judge.

British broadcaster Paul Gambaccini has reached a confidential settlement with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) over a dropped investigation into sex abuse allegations against him. Mr Gambaccini was arrested in 2013 as part of Operation Yewtree, the investigation into child sex abuse by British m

Netflix is facing a lawsuit from The Satanic Temple over its alleged use of a copyrighted design of an evil deity. The Satanist organisation claims that the production team behind Netflix's new show, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, used a copyrighted statue of Baphomet as set dressing.

A woman who taught in a grant-aided pre-school in Galway for over 20 years, but was not admitted to the Teachers Superannuation Scheme, has had her award of compensation overturned in the Supreme Court. Finding that the woman was treated less favourably than her comparators, the woman was awarded &e

The Supreme Court will rule in January on a bid by Facebook to halt the referral of 11 questions on EU-US data transfers to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the Irish Independent reports. Following a case management hearing yesterday, the hearing date has been pushed back from Wedn

Ireland's first full-time pro bono associate has said she hopes other firms follow in the footsteps of A&L Goodbody by creating similar roles. Eithne Lynch joined A&L Goodbody from the Public Interest Law Alliance (PILA) in early October and now oversees the firm's pro bono programmes and in