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The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) will rule this week in a case brought against the United Kingdom by the sister of an IRA volunteer who was shot dead by British soldiers in 1990. The applicant in the case is Sally Gribben, whose brother Martin McCaughey and fellow IRA volunteer Desmond Gre

More solicitors, women and people with diverse backgrounds should be granted the title of senior counsel, the Law Society of Ireland has said. The honour, traditionally reserved for barristers, has been bestowed on solicitors since 2020. Of the 29 solicitors who have so far received this recognition

Drew Harris will remain in post as Garda Commissioner until June 2025, the government has announced. Mr Harris was appointed to the top role in An Garda Síochána for a five-year term beginning in September 2018, following a long career in the PSNI.

Global law firm Fieldfisher has announced the promotion of nine solicitors to the rank of associate in its Dublin office. The new associates are Aisling Kiernan in real estate; Aisling McMorrow, Aisling Ray, Hannah Unger, Honor Hargaden and Maeve McNally in public and regulatory; Jamie Woodcock in c

Eversheds Sutherland, which has an office in Belfast, has increased salaries for NQ lawyers in both its London and regional UK offices. London NQs will see an increase of 15.8 per cent, from £82,000 to £95,000. Lawyers elsewhere will see their pay rise from £50,000 to £62,000

Ireland could be referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) if it does not bring the law on alarm and signal weapons – which are used to fire blanks or pyrotechnics – in line with an EU directive. The European Commission has sent a reasoned opinion to Ireland, Bulgaria

Hundreds of people have volunteered to be locked up in a brand-new prison as part of a test run for the facility. The new prison in Zurich, Switzerland has capacity for 241 remand prisoners, but authorities decided to test the facility on local volunteers before it opens in April, Swissinfo reports.

Maura McNally SC, chair of the Bar Council, has been appointed as chair of the governing body of Atlantic Technological University (ATU). ATU will become Ireland's fourth technological university upon opening its doors in April, absorbing three existing institutes of technology: Galway-Mayo Institut

Complaints about a refusal to enter a licensed premises should be heard in the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) rather than the District Court, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. In a newly-published review of the adequacy and effectiveness of section 19 of the Intoxicating Liquor A

The Child Law Project (CCLRP) has identified the lack of secure and step-down placements, mental health concerns, unaccompanied minors and parental neglect as the key features of its latest volume of reports of cases where the State sought orders to take children into or keep them in care. Severe me

A public inquiry into the wrongful convictions of hundreds of sub-postmasters and mistresses begins today. Between 2000 and 2014, more than 700 sub-postmasters were convicted of false accounting, theft and fraud due to a fault in the Horizon computer system.

Matheson has announced the appointment of partner Shane Hogan as head of the firm's tax practice. Mr Hogan, who joined Matheson in 2000, advises international corporations doing business in and from Ireland on all aspects of corporate tax.

Professor Joan Loughrey has been appointed as head of Queen's University Belfast (QUB) School of Law. She joins QUB from the University of Leeds, where she served as interim head of the school of law from 2020 until 2021. She also served as deputy head of school there from 2013 to 2019, and as direc

The greatest hits of Barry Manilow have been weaponised against protesters by authorities in New Zealand – as well as a sprinkler system. Anti-vaxxers have set up camp outside the country's parliament, which has started playing music on a loop through its speakers in a bid to disperse them.

Northern Ireland could be stuck with its current Covid-19 restrictions for some time in the absence of a fully-functioning Executive to make decisions on relaxing them, it has emerged. The Northern Ireland (Ministers, Elections and Petitions of Concern) Act 2022, which came into force earlier this m