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The Law Society of Ireland yesterday opened the first day of a two-day summer school examining threats to democracy.

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A new study has raised serious concerns about the use of joint enterprise prosecutions in England and Wales, with researchers documenting the routine charging of individuals with murder despite minimal connection to the underlying crime. The report, published by the miscarriage of justice charity Ap

Meta has secured a legal victory in a copyright case brought by a group of writers, including Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates, who accused the company of unlawfully using their work to train its artificial intelligence models. The authors had alleged that Meta violated copyright law by using th

The Northern Ireland courts will be asked to rule on the definition of "sex" in equality law after the Equality Commission said there was "significant legal uncertainty" in the wake of a landmark UK Supreme Court ruling with implications for trans rights. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in April

Sinéad Curtin has been appointed as president of the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL). Ms Curtin is the legal knowledge manager in the Chief State Solicitor's Office (CSSO), where she manages the office's knowledge management and legal research services.

Buskers in the heart of Quebec City must now sing in French under new rules. Since May, two busy sites in Petit Champlain, the tourist hotspot of Quebec's capital city, have only allowed buskers to sing in French or play instrumental, CBC reports.

Fieldfisher Ireland has appointed Barry Fagan as head of its public and regulatory department. Mr Fagan, who has been a partner in the firm since 2017, will take up the new role from 1 July 2025.

Irish and American researchers have published the findings from a series of focus group discussions with senior UK judges about courtroom AI. Dr Brian Flanagan, the Maynooth University associate law professor who made waves with his research on the influence of Wikipedia on judicial decision-ma

The Law Society of Ireland is bringing together legal experts, senior members of government, and international analysts in geopolitics and extremism to examine threats to democracy at its first-ever summer school. The two-day event, taking place under the title "Defending Democracy: Legal Responses

William Fry partner Myra Garrett SC has been recognised as Ireland's top M&A lawyer of the year at the IFLR Women in Business Law Awards 2025 in London. Ms Garrett is a partner in the firm's corporate/M&A department and was previously the firm's managing partner from 2008 to 2014.

The social protection minister has come under further pressure to justify why legislation brought in response to a Supreme Court ruling will remove social welfare entitlements of divorced and separated lone parents. The Bereaved Partner's Pension Bill 2025 has been introduced by the government in re

The Cambodian government is deliberately ignoring human rights abuses including slavery, human trafficking, child labour and torture that are being carried out by criminal gangs on a vast scale in more than 50 scamming compounds located across the country, Amnesty International said in a new report

Lavelle Partners LLP has relocated its Dublin headquarters to new offices at Bankside on Charlemont Street.

Banks alleging that solicitors had failed to comply with undertakings were largely responsible for a 14 per cent increase in complaints to the Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) last year. The regulator's latest annual report reveals that it received 1,476 complaints in 2024, the fifth full