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A raccoon named "Chewy" was caught by police with a meth pipe in his mouth after a traffic stop in Ohio. Springfield Township Police Department say they pulled over the car after the motorist was identified as having an arrest warrant and a suspended licence.

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Northern Ireland personal injury law firm JMK Solicitors has recognised the expertise of five team members by giving them new titles. Marie-Claire Meehan is now director of performance, while Susan Morrison is now costs consultant and Sinead Toal, Ailis McKeown and Wendy McIntosh are now senior asso

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New guidelines on the use of AI in public services have been published by the government. The 84-page document has been developed to "actively empower public servants to use AI in the delivery of services", the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform said.

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An English High Court judge has referred solicitors and a barrister to their professional regulators after discovering that five non-existent case citations were knowingly submitted to the court in a judicial review. Mr Justice Ritchie said the lawyers involved in Ayinde, R v The London Borough of H

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A woman who was compared to Darth Vader at work has won nearly £30,000 from an employment tribunal. The NHS blood donation worker had temporarily left a room when her colleagues decided to take a personality quiz which would tell them what Star Wars character they were, the tribunal heard.

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So-called "sex-for-rent" arrangements are set to be criminalised under proposed new legislation. The general scheme of the Criminal Law and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025 proposes to create two specific criminal offences of offering accommodation in exchange for sex and advertising o

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Eoin Hamill has been promoted to partner in Ogier's banking and finance team. Mr Hamill advises issuers, arrangers and managers on a broad range of securitisation structures (both public and private) across a number of asset classes including commercial mortgages, residential mortgages, auto lo

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The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has made its first award for a breach of remote working legislation. Salesforce was ordered to pay €1,000 to employee Thomas Farrell after failing to respond to his formal remote working request within the statutory four-week deadline.

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The European Commission has opened infringement proceedings against Ireland over its alleged failure to correctly dispose the Landfill Directive. The Landfill Directive, first introduced in 1999 and amended in 2011 and 2018, sets standards for landfills to prevent adverse effects on human health, wa

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