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Lord Sales has been appointed as the next deputy president of the UK Supreme Court. He will succeed Lord Hodge, who is retiring at the end of December, and will take the post up in January 2026.

Northern Ireland firm Cleaver Fulton Rankin has welcomed a new associate and four newly-qualified solicitors. Ross Clarke joined the firm's dispute resolution department as an associate in August, bringing extensive experience in high-value commercial disputes, including contractual disputes and neg

International law firm Addleshaw Goddard has appointed Stephen Barry as a senior partner within its disputes practice in Ireland. Mr Barry joins Addleshaw Goddard from Eversheds Sutherland, where he spent over 20 years specialising in complex litigation, planning and environmental disputes, as well

Apple has lost a first-of-its-kind class action lawsuit in the UK in a case concerning the "excessive and unfair" charges imposed on app developers. The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) yesterday handed down judgment in Dr Rachael Kent v Apple Inc. and Apple Distribution International Ltd [2025] CA

A man detained after trailing US troops with a speaker playing Darth Vader's iconic theme tune has filed a lawsuit over his treatment. Washington DC man Sam O'Hara staged the creative process after President Trump controversially deployed the National Guard to the city.

Israel is obliged to allow aid to flow into the Gaza Strip, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled. The UN's top court yesterday handed down a detailed advisory opinion on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories (OPT) following a request from the UN General Assembly.

The Law Society of Northern Ireland is today facing a rebellion from members over a proposed change to the standard of proof applied by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal for Northern Ireland. A special general meeting is taking place this afternoon following a request from more than 50 solicitors

Three people were wrongly accused of downloading child abuse images after a BT engineer’s wiring error caused police to trace illegal activity to the wrong address, a tribunal has heard. The mix-up, which took place in 2016, led to two men and a woman having their homes searched and electronic

The grandchildren of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK, are calling on ministers to grant her a posthumous pardon, arguing that she was a victim of domestic abuse. Ellis was executed in 1955 for the murder of her former partner, racing driver David Blakely, whom she had met two years

Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC has welcomed the European Parliament's decision to award the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought jointly to her client, Mzia Amaglobeli, and to Andrzej Poczobut. Ms Amaglobeli, a Georgian journalist and director of online media outlets Batumelebi and Netgazeti, was arreste

A judge has acquitted 'Soldier F', the former British soldier accused of murder and attempted murder in connection with the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre. Soldier F was prosecuted for the murder of James Wray and William McKinney and for the attempted murders of Joseph Friel, Michael Quinn, Joe Mahon,

A junior minister has admitted the government does not yet know how hundreds of coroner-directed autopsies will be conducted following the withdrawal of a key service at the beginning of next year. University Hospital Waterford (UHW) notified the Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration in

A teenage boy whose sex was mistakenly recorded on his birth certificate as female has been told he can only join girls' sports teams at his US school. The Laker family in Mesa, Arizona told ABC15 that their 14-year-old son was misidentified as female on his birth certificate as a result of a "cleri

Mr Justice Adrian Colton has been appointed as a Lord Justice of Appeal in Northern Ireland.

Another 40 trainee solicitors have undergone training to bring legal education into the classrooms of local DEIS schools through the Law Society Street Law programme.