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A public consultation is seeking views on the modernisation of Ireland's "antiquated" licensing laws through the proposed Sale of Alcohol Bill. The government's objective for the proposed bill is to repeal the Licensing Acts and the Registration of Clubs Acts and replace them with updated and stream

Young men are turning towards a life of crime because of male TV and film characters being recast as women, an MP has suggested. Nick Fletcher, the Conservative MP for Don Valley, cited the examples of "Doctor Who, the Ghostbusters, Luke Skywalker and The Equalizer all replaced by women".

Insurance law specialists BLM and Clyde & Co are reportedly discussing a possible merger which would create a combined firm with annual revenue of £735 million. The firm recently entered "early-stage talks" and the details are "being kept tight by the pair's senior leadership teams", accor

The Supreme Court has allowed Gemma O’Doherty and John Waters leave to bring an appeal in their challenge to the emergency lockdown measures from March 2020. However, the court only decided to hear a very narrow point of law and will not hear an appeal on the merits of the claim. The court hel

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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