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Legislative amendments will be brought forward to allow e-scooters to be used legally in public places in Ireland, Transport Minister Eamon Ryan has announced. Provisions providing for the regulation of e-scooters and e-bikes will be brought into the forthcoming Road Traffic (Miscellaneous Provision

Dr David Begg, a former general secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU), has been appointed as chairperson of the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC). He will serve for a five-year term as the second-ever chairperson of the WRC since its establishment under the landmark Workplace Rel

Employment law solicitor Richard Grogan considers Fixed Term Work Act contracts and their interaction with the Unfair Dismissal Acts 1977-2015 and the Maternity Protection Act 1994. The Labour Court, in a recent case of Akina Dada Wa Africa and Claudia Horeau UDD/18/237, determination number UDD216,

Philip Lee partner Clare Cashin, senior associate Michael Cahill and associate Thompson Barry Doherty provide an overview of the first judgment in Ireland concerning the enforcement of an adjudicator's decision. The decision of Mr Justice Garrett Simons in Gravity Construction Limited v Total Highwa

Former US president Donald Trump has appointed new lawyers for his imminent impeachment trial following the late-in-the-day collapse of his defence team. He had been abandoned by five lawyers due to disagreements over legal strategy less than two weeks before the beginning of the landmark impeachmen

A lawyer who inadvertently broadcast himself having sex with his client to a bemused judge in an online court hearing has been disbarred for life. Héctor Cipriano Paredes Robles, a criminal lawyer in Peru, apparently believed the court was in recess and thought his camera was turned off.

The Court of Appeal has upheld a personal injuries award for a child who suffered lacerations to her hand while ice-skating at a seasonal pop-up ice rink. The child had been awarded €65,000 in the High Court after the judge determined that the ice rink had been overcrowded and poorly supervised

Global law firm DLA Piper has announced the appointment of Eimear O'Brien and Darach Connolly to its litigation and regulatory practice in Dublin. Ms O'Brien has joined the firm from the enforcement division of the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) and is now responsible for managing DLA Piper Ireland&

ByrneWallace LLP has announced the appointment of William Johnston as a consultant in the firm's banking and finance team. A former partner in another large Dublin firm for three decades, Mr Johnston has extensive knowledge, expertise and practice advising on banking, capital markets and financial r

A long-delayed review into the care of vulnerable people in Northern Ireland's prisons is reportedly on track to be completed this summer. The review was first announced in 2016 after a series of deaths in custody and was subsequently passed in December 2018 to the Regulation and Quality Improvement

A new website exploring the use of restorative justice and practices in the Irish criminal justice system has been launched with funding from the Department of Justice. The restorativejustice.ie website has been launched by the Restorative Justice: Strategies for Change (RJS4C) project and hosts the

Human rights campaigners have welcomed the reinstatement of early abortion services by Northern Ireland’s South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust. Earlier this month, the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) launched legal action against the government over its failure to commis

Solicitors Dame Glenys Stacey and Natalie Prosser have been appointed to leadership roles in the UK's new Office for Environmental Protection (OEP). Dame Glenys will chair the new statutory body, due to be created by the Environment Bill, from 1 February 2021 while Ms Prosser will be its interim chi

A man has been arrested on suspicion of using a radio to give fake air control instructions to passenger jets and helicopters. Police in Berlin raided the home of a 32-year-old following multiple incidents of "dangerous interference in rail, ship and air traffic".

The High Court has refused to grant an interlocutory injunction to allow the Irish Coursing Club (ICC) to hold races during Level 5 lockdown. The court said that it did not have jurisdiction to grant to injunction because the court would be directing the Minister for Health to legislate in prescribe