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A construction worker was threatened with jail time after wearing a T-shirt to a virtual court hearing. Detroit judge Ronald Giles reprimanded the defendant, who claimed the attire was due to him being at work on a building site.

The High Court has rejected judicial review proceedings brought by Facebook Ireland Limited seeking to quash a preliminary draft decision of the Data Protection Commissioner regarding EU-US data transfers. In the case, Facebook made a number of complaints about the procedure which the DPC had adopte

A&L Goodbody (ALG) has promoted 18 new associates across its Dublin, Belfast and London offices. Following a promotion round in January which included 10 new partners and 23 new associates, the firm has now appointed 41 new associates this year.

Members of the public have been invited to share their experiences with the family justice system in a new public consultation. The consultation, running until 11 June 2021, will inform the oversight group which has been tasked with driving the modernisation of family justice in Ireland, including t

FRKelly partner Shane Smyth has been elected as president of the Association of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys (APTMA) in Ireland for a three-year term. APTMA Ireland represents the interests of all trade mark, patent and design professionals in Ireland and strives to bring recognition to the work

Prominent US lawyer Susan Hoffman, the immediate past president of the D.C. Bar, has been named as the new chair of the Washington Ireland Program (WIP). Ms Hoffman is a partner at an eminent Washington, D.C. law firm, specialising in human rights issues affecting women and children.

Arthur Cox has launched a new race and ethnicity network called EMBRACE to support the recruitment, inclusion, retention, and progression of people from ethnic minority and diverse backgrounds in the firm and the wider community.

Prosecutors were right not to charge politicians who attended the controversial funeral of republican Bobby Storey because there was no realistic prospect of them being convicted, a report has found. Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) said the P

Councils will be allowed to use CCTV footage to identify and prosecute fly-tippers under proposed legislation, ministers have said. The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has warned that there is currently no legal basis for councils processing images of members of the public for this purpose.

An 81-year-old retired judge who made history as the first black man appointed to the Supreme Court of British Columbia has received an apology after being mistaken for a criminal suspect and put in handcuffs. Mr Justice Selwyn Romilly was briefly detained by police officers responding to reports of

Half of practising lawyers are experiencing depression and anxiety, according to a study by the California Lawyers Association (CLA) and the D.C. Bar. The findings come from a research project into the personal and workplace risk factors for mental health problems, substance use, and attrition among

Scotland's Highland Council has dropped plans to require prior authorisation for bagpipes at funerals after an outcry from pipers. The measure was included in draft burial and crematorium management rules put out to a public consultation but has now been abandoned, The Times reports.

The High Court has granted an injunction restraining the Director of Public Prosecutions from prosecuting assault charges against a child due to delay. The applicant was 17 years old at the time of the offending but was only charged 15 months after the incident. The court was satisfied that there ha

Cork-based O'Flynn Exhams LLP (OFX) has announced the promotion of Cian Duane to a partner in the firm. Mr Duane, who joined OFX in 2017, has extensive experience in advising on all aspects of residential and commercial property, commercial leases and insolvency issues.

Irish lawyer Aedamar Comiskey has been elected as the new senior partner of magic circle firm Linklaters LLP, becoming the first woman to lead the global law firm. London-based Ms Comiskey, who was born in Monaghan and studied law at University College Dublin (UCD), joined Linklaters as a trainee 29