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Careless driving will become a fixed penalty notice offence under plans to reduce the number of minor motoring offences becoming before the Northern Ireland courts. A consultation paper published this week proposes that a fixed penalty of £100 of three penalty points should be imposed for mino

The UK's Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has today set out data protection standards that companies must meet to safeguard people’s privacy online when developing new advertising technologies (adtech). The privacy standards published in a commissioner’s opinion come as a wa

Hamas should not have been removed from the European list of terrorist organisations, the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled. It held that the General Court should not have cancelled Hamas’ listing on the ground that the European Council had failed to authenticate by means of a s

Dublin solicitors Gary Daly and Imran Khurshid have announced the merger of their respective practices to form a new entity called Daly Khurshid Solicitors. Mr Daly, who specialises in the areas of insolvency and corporate litigation, founded Gary Daly & Co Solicitors in 2006, having qualified a

The HSE will be able to appear and give evidence at court hearings on licensing applications from November 2022. Under section 4 of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018, the environmental health service of the HSE will be notified in advance of applications for licences under the Intoxicating Liquor

Murderers who refuse to disclose information about the locations of their victims' remains could face tougher sentences and be denied parole under plans to be put to a public consultation in Northern Ireland. Justice minister Naomi Long said the proposed legislation, dubbed "Charlotte's law", would

A woman was thrown out of a hotel at night with her young granddaughter after leaving the place a three-star review online. The Baymont Inn & Suite in Helen, a small city in the US state of Georgia, called the police after 63-year-old Susan Leger logged the average review with a booking website.

Cleaver Fulton Rankin has announced the appointment of Suzanne Keenan as a director in the firm's employment team, specialising in employment and HR matters. Ms Keenan has over 10 years' experience in employment law, advising on the full scope of employment law issues as well as representing clients

The Court of Appeal has rejected an appeal brought by two plaintiffs in defamation proceedings which had been rejected by a jury. The plaintiffs argued that the jury’s decision was perverse and should be set aside. It was said that all the evidence clearly showed that the defendant had publish

Kate McKenna, partner at Matheson, considers the impact of home working on regulators. Recent enforcement action conducted by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) and the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) provides an insight into the dynamic future of unannounced regulator

The boards of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland have held their first joint meeting. The board members met in Dundalk to to review and plan the work of the three commissions on overseeing and

Ger Deering has been nominated by ministers for appointment as ombudsman and information commissioner. Mr Deering, currently the financial services and pensions ombudsman, is the government's choice to succeed Peter Tyndall following his retirement at the end of the year.

An Afghan woman judge who has been brought to safety in Ireland has recounted how she saw "people running in terror" from her courthouse building as the Taliban approached during their takeover of the country. Ireland has granted refugee status to 11 women judges and their families, three of whom ha

Niall McPeake, principal legal officer in the Department of Justice, has been elected as chair of the In-House Lawyers' Group Northern Ireland (IHLGNI) at its recent AGM. Ciarán Fegan of Graham Group has been elected as secretary, while Anne MacRandal of Autism Initiatives NI has been elected