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Poland is at loggerheads with the EU again as the rule of law dispute between Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and the bloc deepens. At the European Parliament, Mr Morawiecki clashed with European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen, accusing the EU of blackmail. The incident follows the ruling o

A 96-year-old woman who was a secretary at a Nazi concentration camp has gone on trial for complicity in the murder of more than 11,000 people, weeks after she attempted to flee proceedings. Irmgard Furchner was 18 when she began working at Stutthof camp in Nazi-occupied Poland as secretary to its c

A defence lawyer in Japan is going head to head with a judge who ordered him not to recharge his laptop in court because the electricity supply was "owned by the state". Takashi Takano has appealed to the Tokyo High Court after Taro Kageyama, of the Yokohama District Court, made him unplug his machi

The Public Prosecution Service (PPS) has defended its decision to prosecute veteran Dennis Hutchings over a Troubles shooting. Mr Hutchings, 83, died in Belfast on Monday after contracting Covid.

Anti-abortion protesters could be fined or jailed for harassing women outside hospitals and clinics, under a proposed law, The Times reports. Paul Gavan, the Sinn Féin senator, introduced the safe access zones bill in the Seanad yesterday. It would mandate a 100m buffer zone around relevant p

Legislation permitting the use of e-scooters and electric bikes on Irish roads has been published by the Government. Transport Minister Eamon Ryan published the Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021 yesterday, which provides for a new class of powered personal transporters (PPTs).

Kanye West has legally changed his name to Ye following the approval of a Los Angeles court. He made the request in August, citing personal reasons for the decision.

An elderly man has succeeded in challenging the procedural fairness of a hearing in which he was subjected to an experience reminiscent of Franz Kafka's The Trial, his lawyer said. In 2019, Dr Denis Paling appeared at Ipswich Magistrates Court in a case concerning unpaid council tax relating to a le

Scotland's three principal bar associations have voted to opt out of a duty solicitor scheme less than two weeks before the most important conference in the world due to continued mistreatment of defence lawyers, our sister publication Scottish Legal News reports.

Landmark gambling laws to come before the Cabinet today will ban free bets as a new regulator comes into place next year. The regulator will be given powers to remove or suspend gambling licences and will be able to freeze accounts as well as block incoming payments to providers, The Irish Times rep

The Court of Appeal has ruled that Aer Arann must pay more than €3.2 million to the State arising from a finding of unlawful State aid. The EU Commission had previously determined that an air travel tax imposed by the State conferred a competitive advantage to Aer Arann in contravention of Art

Holmes O’Malley Sexton LLP has announced the promotion of two lawyers to its partnership. Rachael O'Shaughnessy and Sean Fitzgerald have been promoted as partners to HOMS Assist, part of Holmes O’Malley Sexton LLP.

Reports of domestic abuse have doubled in the past five years, the Garda’s annual policing report shows. There were 7,600 charges brought last year over domestic abuse, an increase of 24 per cent on the 2019 figure.

On Saturday 6 November, the third annual conference of the Irish Supreme Court Review will take place online, hosted by the School of Law Trinity College Dublin and supported by Pinsent Masons. The speakers are:

A new phone line has been set up for gardaí to report corruption by other members of the force, The Irish Times reports. The phone line is one of a package of measures introduced by the new Garda Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) to deal with misconduct and criminality.