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The Corporate Enforcement Authority (CEA) submitted four investigation files to the DPP last year, according to its latest annual report. The CEA's second annual report details its activities during 2024 and highlights 22 case studies.

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Global firms ‘profiting from genocide’ in Gaza, says UN rapporteur

Hannah Al-Qaryooti has joined Public Interest Litigation Support (PILS) as the non-profit’s legal support manager. An Oxford University law graduate, Ms Al-Qaryooti had previously worked with Safer Renting, a London-based tenants’ rights advocacy service, as a caseworker and team leader.

Northern Ireland firm Cleaver Fulton Rankin has welcomed three new team members, including senior solicitor Clodagh Rafferty and solicitor Kaitlyn Berryman. Ms Rafferty has joined the firm's private client team, while Ms Berryman has joined the dispute resolution team following the completion of her

New legislation forbids schools in a US state from displaying the words "everyone is welcome here" in classrooms. A law which came into effect on Tuesday bans schools in Idaho from displaying flags or banners "representing a political, religious, or ideological expression".

A legal challenge could be brought in the Northern Ireland courts over the exclusion of some victims and survivors of abuse from a new redress scheme. Legislation to establish a statutory public inquiry and a statutory redress scheme for victims and survivors of mother and baby institutions, Magdale

Labour has proposed legislation which would provide greater transparency on government legal advice and require public litigation strategy to give regard to the State's duty of care to its citizens. A private member's bill drafted by Labour leader Ivana Bacik in response to the recent nursing home c

The chief executive of the body which investigates potential miscarriages of justice in England, Wales and Northern Ireland has resigned following mounting criticism. The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has faced intense scrutiny over the body's handling of the Andrew Malkinson and Oliver Ca

A first-of-its-kind public inquiry in Australia has published its recommendations for redress for the indigenous people who suffered genocide at the hands of British colonists. The Yoorrook Justice Commission was set up in 2021 as Australia's first formal truth-telling process and was tasked with ex

Lawyers Against Homelessness has paid tribute to the late Brother Kevin Crowley, founder of the Capuchin Day Centre for Homeless People, who has passed away at the age of 90. Br Kevin founded the centre in 1969 and for decades oversaw its development into a backbone of support for homeless people in

A teenage influencer who is trying to become the first pilot to fly solo to every continent has been detained by Chilean authorities after an unauthorised trip to Antarctica. Prosecutors allege that 19-year-old Ethan Guo deliberately deviated from his flight plan over the southern Chilean city of Pu

Legislative plans to implement new EU media freedom rules in Ireland have been set out by the government. The Media Regulation Bill will implement the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA), which puts in place new rules to protect media pluralism and independence and seeks to ensure that media can opera

Matheson has acted for global crypto platform Kraken in its successful application to the Central Bank to become Ireland's first authorised crypto-asset service provider. Having secured authorisation under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR), Kraken can now offer fully-regulated crypto s

An oil and gas company which secured a $660 million judgment against Greenpeace in the US courts is now being sued in the Netherlands in what the environmental NGO says is the first major test of the EU's anti-SLAPP laws. Texas-based company Energy Transfer accused Greenpeace of defamation and orche

A private member's bill is seeking to introduce a disregard scheme for historic convictions for consensual sexual activity between men prior to the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1993. Sinn Féin TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh yesterday introduced the Disregard of Historic Offences fo