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Denmark is to update its copyright laws to give everyone a right to their own likeness and voice in response to the rise of AI-generated deepfakes. The Danish culture ministry announced last week that the move had been agreed by the three-party government coalition as well as six opposition parties,

More than €400 million worth of illegal drugs went up in thick smoke in major cities across Myanmar as part of a day of action against drug abuse. Heroin, opium, speed, crystal meth, kratom, cannabis and ketamine were among the drugs put to the pyre as part of a ceremony that has raised eyebrow

The Central Bank of Ireland is facing the prospect of a High Court battle over its failure to ban the marketing, distribution and sale of Israeli bonds amid claims that investors could be complicit in genocide in Gaza. A letter seen by Irish Legal News was sent to the bank's governor earlier this we

Northern Ireland personal injury law firm JMK Solicitors has raised £10,000 for Cancer Focus Northern Ireland in the first six months of the year in collaboration with CRASH Services and Granite Exchange. Between January and June, their teams took part in a variety of activities, with a signif

Solicitors and barristers have been invited to join a business mission to promote Ireland in New York City as an attractive jurisdiction for business. A delegation of lawyers, joined by the president of the High Court, Mr Justice David Barniville, and junior justice minister Niall Collins, will trav

Mercy Law Resource Centre has welcomed new legal secretary Rebecca McKinney to the team. The independent law centre provides free legal advice to people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.

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

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. A new special tribunal will investigate Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. Will it be effective?

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