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Laws that are premised on the traditional notions of obscenity and indecency will not help to keep children safe online, an academic has warned. Existing laws that are reliant on a standard of ‘morality’ and obscenity have proven to be ineffective for regulating adult pornography on the

Northern Ireland corporate and commercial law firm Mills Selig has announced the promotion of Rebecca Logan to senior associate. Ms Logan joined Mills Selig as a commercial litigation solicitor in 2019, having previously spent three years at a specialist commercial litigation firm in the north-east

Dublin firm Richard Grogan & Associates has announced the promotion of employment law specialist Natasha Hand to senior associate in the firm. A graduate of NUI Galway, Ms Hand joined the firm as a trainee in 2018 and was appointed as an associate solicitor in 2019.

Lisa Smith, a former member of the Defence Forces, has become the first person in the State to be convicted of membership of terror group Islamic State (IS). After a nine-week trial in the non-jury Special Criminal Court, Ms Smith was convicted of membership of an unlawful organisation and acquitted

A team from the King's Inns has won the International Criminal Court (ICC) Moot Court Competition in the English language. The final round, held on a hybrid basis with judges sitting in The Hague and students participating by video link, saw competing teams present oral arguments in a fictitious cas

Hastings Direct has appointed insurance law firm BLM to its legal panel. The firm will deal with large and complex loss claims in the UK and Ireland under the three-year partnership.

Employment tribunals involving menopause in Great Britain have increased by 44 per cent year on year, according to analysis of court records by the Menopause Experts Group. There were 23 employment tribunals referencing menopause in 2021, compared to 16 in the previous year. "Menopause" was mentione

Judges from Germany have visited Peru to examine the level of environmental damage allegedly caused by Europe’s greatest emitter in what could be a landmark climate case. The delegation visited a glacial lake in Peru’s Cordillera Blanca mountain range to find out if Germany’s large

More than 50 new solicitors have been welcomed to the Northern Ireland profession at a unique reception held two years after their admission ceremony was cancelled due to the pandemic. The new lawyers were addressed by Brigid Napier, the president of the Law Society of Northern Ireland, and the Lady

Parental alienation is being "increasingly cited in the Irish courts" despite the lack of a clear agreed definition, justice minister Helen McEntee said as she launched a new consultation on the issue. The Department of Justice last year commissioned research into parental alienation which is still

Gardaí should be required by law to record race and ethnicity data during a stop and search, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has recommended. The rights watchdog has also called for stronger wording to prohibit racial profiling, as well as detailed guidelines developed in consu

Dublin firm Lavelle Partners has announced the promotion of Greg Flanagan to partner in its commercial property team. Mr Flanagan, who joined the firm in 2018 and previously held the position of senior solicitor, is the second partner in the commercial property team alongside Nicola Walsh.

A police force belatedly discovered it had been burgled after finding some of its belongings during an unrelated search. Officers searching an address in Auckland, New Zealand unexpectedly came across "a number of documents" which were meant to have been destroyed, as well as expired cannisters of p

Decades of racist legislation led to the Windrush scandal in which dozens of British citizens from Caribbean countries were wrongly deported, according to a report produced for the Home Office and leaked by a UK newspaper. The 52-page document, written by an historian who has not been named, conclud

James Hamilton, a former director of public prosecutions, has been appointed as chair of the government's new Advisory Council against Economic Crime and Corruption (ACECC). Mr Hamilton previously led the government's review of structures and strategies to prevent, investigate and penalise economic