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Prime Minister Boris Johnson's appointment of 16 new peers runs contrary to his predecessors' promises to limit numbers in the House of Lords, Conservative peer Lord Fowler has said. Membership in the house now stands at 830, a move that the Lord Speaker said runs "smack against" the recommendations

A new exhibition has been launched by Kilmainham Gaol Museum to mark the 200th anniversary of one of the most dramatic events in the history of Kilmainham Courthouse.

Diners who leave food on their plate will be fined under a new Chinese law. New legislation designed to support a government campaign against food waste will introduce fines for diners with eyes bigger than their stomachs.

In a “rolled-up” judicial review hearing, the High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland, having granted leave, dismissed an application challenging the Director of Public Prosecution’s decision to prosecute a former soldier for the murder and wounding with intent of two men in 1972

ByrneWallace has been authorised to operate as a limited liability partnership (LLP), becoming the latest major Irish law firm to take advantage of the rules introduced over a year ago. In an email to clients last night, managing partner Feargal Brennan confirmed the firm had begun trading as an LLP

Proposed legislation to overhaul the judicial appointments process should undergo pre-legislative scrutiny in spite of Justice Minister Helen McEntee's opposition, the chair of the Oireachtas justice committee has said. Ms McEntee last week wrote to the Ceann Comhairle to ask for the requirement for

There should be an expansion in the use of remote and "hybrid" hearings to avoid the backlog in civil cases growing next year, commercial and insurance risk law specialist BLM has said. The Courts Service announced earlier this month that the backlog in the summons scheduling waiting list has been r

Global law firm DLA Piper has recruited its first group of trainees in Dublin. Under the firm's two-year international graduate programme, announced last year, trainees will have the opportunity to undertake client and international secondments and will also be able to rotate between practice groups

Our regular round-up of deals involving Irish law firms. Submit your deals to newsdesk@irishlegal.com. Eversheds Sutherland and Arthur Cox have advised the two respective parties to Gresham House's €10 million acquisition of Appian Asset Management Limited.

The PSNI's different treatment of Black Lives Matter protesters and loyalist counter-protesters was unfair but not motivated by racism, the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland has said. The watchdog has published a 90-page report into the policing of Black Lives Matter protests in Belfast and Derr

Businesses in Northern Ireland have been protected from the threat of eviction for non-payment of rent for a further three months. Finance Minister Conor Murphy has extended emergency provisions for commercial tenants in the Coronavirus Act 2020 until 31 March 2021.

Major changes to the way courts interpret the Human Rights Act are necessary so the legislation does more to protect people detained because of the expansion of police powers, a new study says. The right to liberty and security is enshrined in article 5 of the act and was intended to refer to arrest

A court in Germany has fined a University of Warwick historian €4,000 (£3,700) after she breached an injunction regarding claims that a concentration camp prisoner had had a lesbian affair with an SS guard. In April, Frankfurt regional court ruled that Dr Anna Hájková, assoc

A 12-year-old DJ who organised an illegal rave in his school bathrooms has been reprimanded. Cael Bell brought pro DJ equipment and lights to his underground party in the boys' bathroom at St Antony's Catholic College in Greater Manchester.

The High Court has granted an application by Norwegian Air to appoint an examiner over six companies in the Norwegian Group. The court noted that the struggling company had met serious challenges in recent times, with the airline only having six planes in use due to the coronavirus pandemic. The cou