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Judges should challenge family lawyers who send emails outside acceptable hours, the president of the family courts in England and Wales has said. In an update on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the family courts, Sir Andrew McFarlane said court hearings and emails taking place "without any r

A court in South Korea has ordered Japan to compensate a group of wartime sex slaves. The Japanese government has reacted with anger to an order from a court in Seoul that it pay 100 million won (£67,000) to 12 'comfort women'.

Prisons should offer free cannabis to drug-dependent prisoners to determine whether it could stem overdose deaths and reduce violence, a police and crime commissioner has said. Arfon Jones, North Wales PCC, said if the authorities seriously wanted to reduce violence in prisons, “they should be

The publication of a report detailing government knowledge of 'unidentified aerial phenomena' (UAP) has been ordered. The director of national intelligence and the secretary of defense must provide an unclassified report on UAP, another term for unidentified flying objects, within six months, to the

An Italian pasta maker has apologised after naming a product in apparent tribute to Mussolini's military campaign in Ethiopia. La Molisana has promised to rename the "Abissine" pasta, named after fascist Italy's 1930s colonial war in what was then known as Abyssinia.

The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal against a rape conviction in which the defendant claimed that the trial judge had erred by allowing more than one “recent complaint” witness. Giving the judgment of the Court, Mr Justice John Edwards described the situation as “somewhat u

Employment lawyer Peter Murphy has joined Dublin-based McInnes Dunne Solicitors as a partner. Mr Murphy has specialised in the area of employment law since qualifying as a solicitor, representing and advising both employers and employees.

Corporate law firm BHSM LLP has announced the appointment of Ruth Crawley and JJ McLoughlin as solicitors in the firm. Ms Crawley has joined the firm's commercial real estate department while Mr McLoughlin has joined the litigation and dispute resolution team. Both trained and qualified in one of Ir

High Court judge Mr Justice Maguire has been appointed as a Lord Justice of Appeal in a round of judicial appointments announced this morning. Elsewhere, Mr Justice Huddleston has been appointed as president of the Historical Institutional Abuse Redress Board (HIA), taking over from Mr Justice Colto

ByrneWallace LLP has congratulated five of its trainees on their admission to the roll of solicitors.

Business law firm Flynn O'Driscoll has welcomed eight new solicitors following the completion of their training.

The Irish Judicial Studies Journal has become the first Irish law journal to be included in the prestigious Scopus index of peer-reviewed journals. Scopus is Elsevier's abstract and citation database and inclusion in the database is a mark of quality in itself. Publications in the index are reviewed

Marie Kinsella, partner at commercial law firm Philip Lee, welcomes a major review of the management of clinical negligence claims. The much-anticipated final Expert Group Report to Review the Law of Torts and the Current Systems for the Management of Clinical Negligence Claims, chaired by Mr Justic

Millions of leaseholders will be given the right to extend their lease by a maximum term of 990 years at zero ground rent under the "biggest reforms to English property law for 40 years". At present, the right to a lease extension enables a lease to be extended by 50 years in the case of a house and

The US Justice Department has said it would not rule out pursuing President Trump over his possible role in encouraging rioters to storm the US Capitol on Wednesday.