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The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has accused Meta of "silencing" a former director who was ordered this week to refrain from promoting her new book. Careless People, published this week, provides an account from Sarah Wynn-Williams of her time as Meta's director of global public policy f

International law firm Simmons & Simmons has hired Declan O'Sullivan as a partner in its Dublin funds practice. Mr O'Sullivan brings three decades of experience to the firm, which he is joining from the Dublin office of a US-headquartered international law firm.

Mason Hayes & Curran has appointed Gerard Kelly as co-head of the firm's dispute resolution practice alongside Maurice Phelan. Mr Kelly, who brings a wealth of experience in business-critical litigation and arbitration, will also continue as head of the business law firm's intellectual property

Planning fees in Northern Ireland will be increased by 2.1 per cent from 1 April 2025. The inflationary uplift is based on the consumer price index (CPI) rate of 2.1 per cent from January 2024 to September 2024.

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The island nation of Nauru is offering citizenship for around €100,000 under a new scheme aimed at tackling the impact of climate change. The Pacific Ocean country is the world's smallest independent republic and third-smallest country, with a population of around 12,000 people.

A UN judge has been convicted in the UK of forcing a woman to work as a slave. Judge Lydia Mugambe was initially appointed to the judicial roster of the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) in May 2023 — three months after her arrest in Oxford, where she was study

Four Catholic PSNI officers are taking the force to court over alleged religious and political discrimination. Belfast firm KRW LAW said it has been instructed by four current or former officers, including one identified only as "Sean".

The cost of disability is pushing Irish households into poverty, according to new research published by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. The research study, carried out in tandem with the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), shows that households with a disabled member face

The body responsible for advising judges on criminal sentences in England and Wales has pushed back against the justice secretary’s call to scrap new guidance on sentencing offenders from minority groups. The Sentencing Council said that ministers from both major parties or their representativ

Lawyers for a 73-year-old man in Northern Ireland have said they will fight a bid to have him extradited to the US to face trial for an alleged antisemitic hate crime. Belfast firm KRW LAW is representing Liam Mackin, who denies all allegations related to an incident in November 2023 where six prope

Raymond McEntee has been promoted to managing partner of US firm McEntee Law Group. Mr McEntee trained as a solicitor in Dublin before relocating to Chicago in 2014 to join the immigration law firm, which was founded in 2009 by his sister Fiona McEntee.

Legislative changes have been proposed in the UK to prevent survivors of mother and baby homes who now live in Britain from being penalised for accepting payments from an Irish compensation scheme. The bill, dubbed "Philomena's law" in honour of mother and baby home survivor Philomena Lee, will excl

The Council of Europe has adopted the first-ever international treaty aiming to protect the profession of lawyer. The treaty was drafted in response to increasing reports of attacks on the legal profession, including in the form of harassment, threats or attacks, or interference with the exercise of

The UK's broadcasting regulator has fined a religious TV channel for advertising "miracle water" that it implied could cure cancer and erase debt. The Word Network, based in the US, was slapped with a £150,000 fine in relation to two episodes of the Peter Popoff Ministries, hosted by televange