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A judgment handed down by the High Court yesterday in a planning dispute has attracted attention for including images of the site and the proposed development at the centre of the case. The 120-page judgment in Ballyboden Tidy Towns Group v An Bord Pleanala & Ors was authored by Mr Justice David

Three trainee solicitors have received awards from the Law Society of Ireland after representing its law school in the International Academy of Dispute Resolution's 2020 annual tournament. James Leahy, Hannah Gallagher and Katie Lee, coached by John Lunney, placed overall second as mediator team in

Dublin-based boutique law firm Eames Solicitors has merged into US-based Clark Hill, the firms have announced. The merger will see four solicitors join Clark Hill, including Eames Solicitors founder and managing partner Aidan Eames, bringing the number of solicitors in Clark Hill's Dublin office to

There is a shortage of associates at London law firms, new figures show. Law firms advertised more than 2,300 jobs for associate-level positions between January and November last year, data from BCL Legal and Vacancysoft indicate. This was a 131 per cent increase on 2020.

Lithuania has given a Guantanamo Bay detainee €100,000 in compensation after allowing the CIA to torture him at a site near the capital Vilnius. Abu Zubaydah's payout follows a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights, which found that the country had fallen foul of the European Convention

The High Court has quashed a decision of the International Protection Appeals Tribunal (IPAT) to refuse refugee status to two people who faced xenophobic violence in South Africa. The IPAT had determined that South Africa provided effective protection for the applicants from the alleged violence. Ho

A court has upheld the sacking of two police officers who ignored an ongoing robbery to continue playing Pokémon Go. Los Angeles police officers Louis Lozano and Eric Mitchell were recorded dismissing a call to assist with the robbery while boasting of catching rare Pokémon in the mobi

Northern Ireland ministers have issued a call for views on two new strategies aimed at tackling domestic and sexual abuse and violence against women and girls.

Global business leaders have concerns about decisions and omissions made by artificial intelligence (AI) systems despite their wide adoption in the private sector, a survey by Dentons has found. The vast majority (81 per cent) of businesses cited personal data protection as a significant concern, ye

Our regular round-up of deals involving Irish law firms. Submit your deals to newsdesk@irishlegal.com. ByrneWallace LLP has advised the European Circular Bioeconomy Fund (ECBF) on its recent investment of $7 million in Nuritas, a Dublin-based biotechnology company revolutionizing the discovery and d

Belfast-based law firm Cleaver Fulton Rankin has announced the appointment of Paul McBride to lead the firm's corporate team. Mr McBride, a former partner and head of office at an international law firm in Belfast, brings over 25 years' experience to the role.

A civil case for compensation brought against the Ministry of Defence and the PSNI by a man who alleges he was waterboarded in 1972 will begin in the High Court in Belfast tomorrow. Liam Holden, now 67, alleges he was waterboarded three or four times by members of the Parachute Regiment after his ar

A Swansea law expert has been awarded €1.5 million to examine how public perceptions of deepfakes – AI-manipulated images, videos or audio – affect trust in user-generated evidence of human rights violations. Yvonne McDermott Rees, professor of law at the Hillary Rodham Clinton Scho

An Italian mobster with a distinctive scar on his chin was caught after decades on the run when he was spotted on Google Street View. Police say they tracked down mafia killer Gioacchino Gammino in the Spanish town of Galapagar after he was snapped by Google cameras standing outside a grocery shop.

Carers should be explicitly protected from discrimination in Ireland's equality laws, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has said. In a submission to the government's review of equality laws, the rights body said the current "family status" ground set out in law does not capture and prot