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Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly have called for the release of 20-year-old Irish citizen Ibrahim Halawa from detention in Egypt at a demonstration on the steps of Stormont. MLAs joined Mr Halawa’s sister Khadija Halawa and representatives of Amnesty International at the demonstration on T

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The High Court has awarded a sum of €47,200 to a Dublin shop manager who was injured after slipping at work. Mr Justice Barr accepted evidence from medical experts that the injury had caused the woman to experience pain in her knee since the date of the accident in 2012, until this was relieved by

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The Courts Service in Limerick has stopped publishing dates on which home repossession proceedings will be heard, The Irish Times reports. Applications for home repossessions were previously listed on the Courts Service website, with hearings held on the first Friday of every other month. Now, repos

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The Department of Justice has launched a consultation on the statutory “age of digital consent” to be applied in Ireland as part of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Article 8 of the GDPR provides that, in the case of information society services offered directly to a child, pare

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Lord Neuberger The UK Supreme Court has now received formal notification of the UK government’s intention to appeal the High Court’s decision of 3 November in the case of R (on the application of Miller & Dos Santos) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union.

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Social housing sector tenants who challenged the so called “bedroom tax” have received a mixed outcome at the UK Supreme Court. Lord Neuberger, Lady Hale, Lord Mance, Lord Sumption, Lord Carnwath, Lord Hughes and Lord Toulson heard the cases, which relate to the cap on housing benefit introduced

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