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Athletes have complained that gold medals handed out at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics are falling apart. Chinese athletes Zhu Xueying and Wang Shun said on social media that material was flaking off their medals, The Times reports.

A major insurance company's withdrawal from the professional indemnity insurance (PII) market for smaller law firms could be "yet another casualty of Brexit", a prominent lawyer has said. Keith Walsh, a former president of the Dublin Solicitors Bar Association (DSBA) and a current member of the Law

Lawyers for Ian Bailey have rejected a proposal from French president Emmanuel Macron that he should travel to France for a fresh trial on the charge of murdering filmmaker Sophie Toscan du Plantier. The High Court in Dublin last year rejected an application for Mr Bailey to be extradited to France,

Barrister Marguerite Bolger SC has been reportedly been appointed by ministers to lead talks with hospital consultants about the roll-out of Sláintecare. Ms Bolger will chair talks in September aimed at persuading medical specialists who will work exclusively within the new public system to a

Patrick Moran, one of Cork's longest-serving Circuit Court judges, has passed away at the age of 78 following a short illness. Judge Moran retired in 2013 after nearly 25 years on the bench, having been appointed in 1988. He previously practised as a barrister on the western circuit.

Dozens of survivors of historical institutional abuse (HIA) in Northern Ireland will receive more than £100,000 in total after their personal information was exposed in a data breach. An email newsletter circulated by the HIA Interim Advocate's Office last May inadvertently revealed the names

The UK is set to depart from the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in a move with implications for post-Brexit data transfers between the UK and the European Union. Digital secretary Oliver Dowden yesterday announced plans to "[reform] our own data laws so that they're based on common sense,

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A single mother-of-two who was refused access to the one parent family payment on the basis she failed to satisfy the habitual residence condition has succeeded in a review with support from the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. The Social Welfare Appeals Office (SWAO) overturned the refus

Les Allamby, the outgoing chief commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC), reflects on the human rights landscape in Northern Ireland ahead of the end of his term early next week. Human rights remains a contested space, both publicly and politically. Nonetheless, as I refl

A historic building which temporarily housed Cork Circuit Court will be redeveloped into a 194-bed hotel under plans approved by Cork councillors.

Court sittings in Kilrush, Co Clare have been moved to Ennis until further notice following the discovery of a bat roost in the attic of the town's historic courthouse. The Courts Service wrote to solicitors, gardaí and other court users yesterday to confirm the courthouse will not be able to

Kildare firm D'Arcy & Co Solicitors has expanded into Portlaoise with the opening of a new office across from Portlaoise Courthouse. Associate solicitor Deirdre Nolan has been appointed to lead the new office, which will offer family law, conveyancing and litigation services.

A court ruling that a 16-year-old transgender girl does not require court permission to access hormone blockers will "bring comfort" to other young trans people in Northern Ireland, a solicitor has said. In a judgment handed down in May and published earlier this month, Mrs Justice Siobhan Keegan sa

A repatriation system for Irish prisoners abroad should be put in place "as a matter of urgency", a charity has recommended. The Irish Council for Prisoners Overseas (ICPO), which is in touch with around 1,100 Irish citizens in prisons in 30 countries around the world, said the Covid-19 pandemic had