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The Law Society of Northern Ireland joined thousands of people at the annual Belfast Pride parade on Saturday.

Belfast firm Millar McCall Wylie (MMW) has welcomed solicitor Sarah Livingstone to its team as part of its ongoing growth. Ms Livingstone previously worked with national law firms and brings experience in employment law and commercial disputes to the independently-owned firm.

A wedding has been officiated by ChatGPT in the absence of a priest in what may be a world-first. Colorado couple Reece Wiench and Deyton Truitt were expecting to have to cancel their wedding after the priest was unable to attend.

People who have spent a year or more in prison will not be able to obtain British citizenship except in exceptional cases under new UK rules which came into effect yesterday. The Home Office said the new rules — which tighten a previous rule applying to prison sentences of more than four years

Lawyers have been urged to join a Dublin demonstration against an Italian crackdown on lesbian mothers' right to be named on their children's birth certificates. Italy's far-right government has ordered local authorities to cease recording the names of "non-biological" parents on birth certificates

Mr Justice Brian O'Moore is to be elevated to the Court of Appeal and 10 new District Court judges appointed, the government has announced. The High Court judge will fill the vacancy arising from the appointment of Ms Justice Aileen Donnelly to the Supreme Court in June.

Data protection specialist Emma Redmond has joined OpenAI as assistant general counsel for privacy and data protection. Ms Redmond was previously chief privacy officer and global head of privacy and data protection at payments company Stripe, and is also an adjunct professor at UCD Sutherland School

The Law Society of Northern Ireland is hosting a screening of My Cousin Vinny at Crumlin Road Gaol later this year to raise funds for charity partner Include Youth. The event on Thursday 7 September will include an hour-long tour of the jail before the '90s classic — lauded by lawyers for

A public consultation is seeking views on changes to the test used by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) to decide whether a case should be referred back to the courts as a potential miscarriage of justice. The CCRC investigates potential miscarriages of justice in England, Wales and Northe

The Housing Commission has failed to reach a consensus on constitutional change and is set to publish two rival reports as a result, according to The Irish Times. The Commission was tasked with considering housing policy in general as well as bringing forward proposals on the wording for a referendu

Judges in England and Wales are being urged to reflect on the risk of perceived bias before agreeing to speak at barristers' chambers or law firms. The suggestion comes as part of the revised guidelines on judicial conduct issued this week.

Amnesty International has launched a new guide aimed at helping journalists to protect themselves from police surveillance in Northern Ireland. The security guidance comes in the aftermath of news that the phone records of Belfast-based journalist Barry McCaffrey were secretly searched by the PSNI d

Belfast solicitor Darren Duncan, a director at McConnell Kelly, has passed away. Mr Duncan was admitted to the roll of solicitors in 2000 and practised at Trevor Smyth & Co and Higgins Hollywood Deazley (HHD) before joining McConnelly Kelly in 2003.

A leading family lawyer has urged the government to begin work on the proposed new Hammond Lane family courts complex as the site remains untouched more than a year on from the project's approval. The long-promised Hammond Lane complex is intended to replace the existing facilities for family law at

DNA testing to identify dog owners who don't pick up their pets' business is to be rolled out in a French town. Béziers, a town of around 75,000 people in southern France, announced the measure after complaints about the amount of dog mess on the town streets.