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World-famous sprinter Usain Bolt has applied to register his "distinctive" victory celebration pose as a trade mark in the United States. His application to the US Patent and Trademark Office is for a logo showing the silhouette of a man "with one arm bent and pointing to the head, and the other arm

The inaugural edition of the student-led NUI Galway Law Review is set to be published. The first volume has been sponsored by William Fry LLP and produced in partnership with NUI Galway School of Law.

Two lawyers with P.A. Duffy & Co Solicitors have been recognised as accredited specialist family lawyers with Reunite International. Conal McGarrity and Carla Fraser, both based in the all-island firm's Belfast office, have been recognised for their experience dealing with international children

Solicitor Siobhan Moloney has been appointed as chair of GemCap Investment Funds Plc. Ms Moloney is dual-qualified as a solicitor in Ireland and in England and Wales. She holds a bachelor of civil law from UCD as well as a diploma in applied finance law from the Law Society.

Belfast-based Mills Selig has announced the expansion of its climate and energy team with the recruitment of Aveen McGahon as a solicitor upon her qualification in September. The team, led by partners Anna-Marie McAlinden and Glenn Watterson, has enjoyed a prolific year, working on transactions tota

Scottish man Jagtar Singh Johal, who was arrested by Indian authorities in 2017 and allegedly subsequently tortured, was detained following a tip-off by British intelligence, his lawyers have said. Mr Johal, a Sikh from Dumbarton, remains in detention despite widespread calls for his release, i

Fines will no longer be used as a penalty in the vast majority of cases of sexual misconduct, discrimination or any form of harassment by English and Welsh solicitors under proposals published by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). A consultation launched yesterday on the SRA's fining regime

A court has been asked to rule on a copyright dispute between two artists who both taped a banana to a wall. US artist Joe Morford is suing Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, alleging that the latter stole his fruit-based artwork, The Guardian reports.

Former US president Donald Trump has launched legal proceedings in a bid to secure the return of some of the documents seized during an FBI raid of his Florida home. He has asked a federal judge to appoint a "special master" to examine the seized documents and for federal investigators to pause thei

A joint enterprise case has been referred back to the courts as a possible miscarriage of justice for the first time in Northern Ireland. The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) made the referral to the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal (NICA) following a review of directions given to the jury du

Irish judges should be bound by a code of conduct even in their retirement to prevent a repeat of the controversy around the Dubai International Finance Centre (DIFC) Courts, a retired senior counsel has said. Bill Shipsey SC, a former chair of Amnesty International Ireland, was among the first to c

Mexico's former attorney general, Jesús Murillo Karam, has become the most prominent figure arrested in connection with the 2014 disappearance and suspected massacre of dozens of student protesters. Mr Karam, who was attorney general from 2012 to 2015 and led a widely-criticised 2015 investig

Justice Michelle O'Bonsawin has become the first indigenous person to be nominated for appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada in its 147-year history. The judge, who has served on the Ontario Superior Court of Justice bench since 2017, is an Abenaki member of the Odanak First Nation.

Pakistan's ousted prime minister, Imran Khan, has been charged under terror laws for allegedly threatening a judge and police officers. The charges are said to relate to a speech he made in Islamabad on Saturday in which he said he would sue a magistrate and police officers, the BBC reports.

Rishi Sunak has accused Jolyon Maugham QC and his Good Law Project of "wasting time and money" by launching judicial reviews against the UK government. A press release issued by the Tory leadership contender's team about his plans to crack down on judicial reviews of government policy mentions Mr Ma