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Eversheds Sutherland NI has celebrated after being named 2024 Property Legal Team of the Year at the Belfast Telegraph Property Awards.

A mural commissioned by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) warns that Garda use of facial recognition technology could lead to innocent people being misidentified as criminal suspects, with women and people of colour at increased risk.

Four in 10 Irish businesses are unprepared to handle unannounced regulatory inspections, known as 'dawn raids', according to a survey by Mason Hayes & Curran. The business law firm said the findings of its recent poll of over 180 professionals highlight a significant lack of readiness despite in

Cleaver Fulton Rankin has paid tribute to directors Karen Blair and Kathryn Collie on their retirement from the firm.

International law firm Clark Hill has appointed Conor Kenny to its transatlantic practice as an international business co-ordinator. Based in Dublin, Mr Kenny will focus on driving European-based business to the US in addition to supporting American organisations expanding into Ireland and Europe.

Northern Ireland solicitors are to join their criminal barrister colleagues in withdrawing from criminal court cases on Monday. In a statement confirming its support for the action, the Law Society of Northern Ireland said the criminal justice system "will collapse without an immediate increase in l

A former PSNI chief superintendent has been appointed as the new prisoner ombudsman for Northern Ireland. Darrin Jones, who has spent over three decades in policing, takes up office today for a three-year term.

Chinese government officials are reportedly cold-calling women to urge them to get pregnant. The bizarre scheme forms part of the Chinese government's efforts to reverse a decline in the country's birth rate, the South China Morning Post reports.

Posthumous pardons have been granted to two men who were executed over 140 years ago following wrongful convictions for murder.

Nearly eight in 10 in-house lawyers have received a data subject access request (DSAR) from an employee or a customer in the last 12 months, a poll conducted by William Fry suggests.

A plan to address barriers facing newly-qualified and early-career solicitors and barristers has been published by the government. It follows research published last month by the Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA), which also made a series of recommendations for reforms to tackle economic an

A case in which police credibility has been questioned has been referred to Northern Ireland's Court of Appeal by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC).   John McDevitt was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1986 after an attack on members of the British Army in Der

Mr Justice Denis McDonald and former CJEU advocate-general Anthony Collins are to be appointed to the Court of Appeal and former Bar Council chairperson Sara Phelan SC is to join the High Court bench. The nominations, along with those of three new District Court judges, were agreed by ministers yest

Nine national public authorities have been given responsibility for protecting fundamental rights under the EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act. The public authorities are An Coimisiún Toghcháin, Coimisiún na Meán, the Data Protection Commission, the Environmental Protect