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Leeds-based BPP University Law School is to offer students what is believed to be the first class in making small talk. Georgie Nightingall, who is running the course in chitchat and networking, said that while small talk is often maligned, it is important for social advancement, The Times reports.

A criminal case concerning the alleged theft of slippers worth around €20 has been concluded after eight years and around €3,000 in costs. The long-running case in Palermo, the capital of the Italian region of Sicily, has been held up as an example of trivial cases clogging up the island's

The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal brought by a convicted IRA member who claimed that his detention by gardaí was unconstitutional. The applicant, Mr Kevin Braney, had been arrested and detained by gardaí on suspicion of being a member of an unlawful organisation under the power

An article which appeared in Irish Legal News on Wednesday 3 February 2021 stated that Ms Una Mc Gurk SC had been "rebuked" by Mr Justice Max Barrett of the High Court for her reasoning in a Decision of Mr X in her capacity as a member of the International Protection Appeals Tribunal (IPAT). We acce

ByrneWallace LLP has announced the appointment of Louise Carley as a partner in the firm's health and social care team. Ms Carley has 11 years' experience advising on child care and healthcare law, having worked in the areas of complex child care and healthcare litigation, child mental health law, j

Irish barrister Fergal Gaynor has narrowly lost out to England's Karim Khan QC in the election for the top post at the International Criminal Court (ICC). The prosecutor was, for the first time, elected in New York by a secret ballot of all 123 states parties to the Rome Statue rather than by consen

Criminal law expert Dr Yvonne Daly has been promoted to professor of law at DCU School of Law and Government. A graduate of University College Cork with a PhD from Trinity College Dublin, Professor Daly joined DCU as a lecturer in 2006 and was promoted to associate professor in 2013.

A court in the Netherlands has refused to extradite a man to Poland due to concerns about his fair trial rights in a country facing a rule of law crisis. The decision, which has been condemned by the Polish government, comes amid international criticism of the erosion of judicial independence in the

An ecclesiastical court in England will this month hear an appeal from a woman who was refused the right to include an Irish language epitaph without an English translation on her mother’s gravestone. The family of the late Margaret Keane, who was born in Ireland but lived in Coventry, want to

A major court defeat for oil and gas giant Shell could herald the end of "a long chapter of impunity" for multinationals implicated in human rights abuses overseas, lawyers and campaigners have said. The UK Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Ogale and Bille communities in the Niger Delta can bri

More than 500 court staff in England and Wales are to be balloted for industrial action from today over safety concerns arising from Covid. The Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) is balloting members in HM Courts and Tribunals Service over management’s failure to act to address serious

Sir William Macpherson of Cluny and Blairgowrie, judge and author of a damning report into the Metropolitan Police in the wake of the Stephen Lawrence murder, has passed away at the age of 94. Chief of clan Macpherson for more than half a century, Sir William was a judge at the English Hig

A Māori politician who was ejected from New Zealand's parliament for refusing to wear a tie has won a battle to change the dress code. Male MPs will no longer be required to wear a tie – which Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi has called a "colonial noose" – under the new rules.

The High Court has ruled that a Commercial Court case will be heard using the remote hearing platform TrialView, despite objections from the defendant. The court considered the provisions of the Civil Law and Criminal Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2020, which allows a court of its own motion to

Irish barrister Fergal Gaynor is one of four candidates competing today for election as the next prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The prosecutor will, for the first time, be elected in New York by a secret ballot of all 123 states parties to the Rome Statue rather than by consen