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Protestors demanding repairs to public toilets have stormed their town hall and urinated in all corners of it. Around 15 people took part in the novel protest at the municipal council office in Gadag-Betageri in the state of Karnataka in southern India.

The High Court has ruled that the HSE cannot charge hospital users as private patients until they clearly consent to such treatment. As such, the HSE is only able to apply certain charges to private patients after they had consented and cannot automatically treat the user as a private patient for th

Barbados has become the world's newest republic after formally breaking ties with the British monarchy while remaining in the Commonwealth of Nations. Dame Sandra Mason, a Barbadian lawyer and former judge who served as governor-general of Barbados from 2018, has assumed the presidency of the countr

Northern Ireland barrister Conor Mullan has joined 3PB Barristers in London. Mr Mullan continues to practise as a barrister both in Northern Ireland, where he qualified in 2003, and in England and Wales, where he qualified in 2012.

Eugene F Collins has announced the appointment of Lisa Griffin as a senior associate in the firm's property and construction team. Ms Griffin has wide experience in the leasing, acquisition and disposal of commercial, office and retail property. She also specialises in property-based lending for bot

Guidelines should be drawn up to assist judges in the sentencing of child sex offenders, a Circuit Court judge has said. Judge John O'Connor interviewed 18 judges as part of his recently-completed PhD research, almost all of whom said they would welcome sentencing guidelines for underage sex offende

Sir Declan Morgan, former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, will next week deliver a lecture on the history of Northern Ireland's chief justices. The event on Wednesday 8 December, 5pm, will look at the 10 individuals who have held the top judicial post from 1921 up to the present day and the

The Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland (MASI) has received The Bar of Ireland's annual human rights award. The award recognises MASI's work with those in direct provision and in the community advocating for better legal and social protection, as well as access to state services, including educati

The High Court has ruled that an applicant was out of time to challenge the Teaching Council’s refusal to register her as a teacher. The applicant had applied to work as a post-primary teacher but was refused on the basis that all her relevant qualifications were for teaching adults. Deliverin

Ministers have nominated Judge Karen O'Connor and Conor Dignam SC for appointment to the High Court. Judge O'Connor is a Circuit Court judge in Dublin, while Mr Dignam is a practising barrister who called to the Bar in 1996 and the Inner Bar in 2011.

Social media companies will have to hand over details of anonymous users who make defamatory posts under a new Australian law. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said legislation requiring Facebook and Twitter to reveal the identities of trolls would be introduced in the country's parliament this week.

Nearly a million public sector workers in India have been forced to swear off alcohol for life by their state's prohibitionist leader. Nitish Kumar, chief minister of the northeast state of Bihar, ordered all employees of the state to take a lifelong pledge to steer clear of alcohol, The Times repor

Lawyers for a man who served over 42 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of a triple murder have raised more than $1.5 million for him in an online crowdfunder. African-American Kevin Strickland, 62, was freed last week from prison in Missouri, one of a number of US states which does no

A new law providing for transgender prisoners in California to be housed and searched in a manner consistent with their gender identity has been challenged as unconstitutional by an anti-trans campaign group.

Irish law firms are beginning to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic, but two-thirds say turnover is still behind pre-Covid levels, according to new research by Smith & Williamson. The professional services company's 10th annual survey of law firms in Ireland found that most firms reported either