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The President of the Supreme Court, Lord Reed, has described as "idiotic" suggestions that the court should be stripped of its title and said that downgrading the institution would be an “act of national self-harm”. The UK government has been considering changing the court's name and cut

Grieving families have been left waiting for death certificates as coroners' courts face a significant backlog due to the pandemic, the Irish Examiner reports. The Coroners Society of Ireland agreed that inquests were to be paused in January to abide by public health restrictions, Justice Minister H

The need for clarification of the legislative landscape governing cryptocurrency is one of the world’s worst kept secrets, write Andrew Tzialli and Rachel McCausland. Bitcoin in particular recently earned its place on a global platform by exceeding a $1 trillion market cap and investors (

Calling someone “old-school” is not necessarily ageist, a tribunal has ruled in a dispute involving an employee's preference for uppercase letters. Lydia Roganovic, 50, insisted on publishing social media tags in capital letters when she worked at iplato Healthcare Ltd in London.

Thieves, robbers and burglars will be given GPS tags to track their whereabouts when they are released from prison in order to curb re-offending. Data from tags will let police check details of burglaries against movements of known offenders to determine whether they might be suspects.

A lawyer is facing a bill of more than £50,000 after having lost a court battle in a row over a "lovely thick" laurel hedge, The Times reports. Julia Lofthouse sued Nick Hartley after he told his gardener to thin the hedge that separates their properties in Surrey.

The Court of Appeal has ordered that a defendant in an unjust enrichment claim must make discovery of the price paid to National Asset Loan Management Limited for the plaintiff’s loans. The court determined that the purchase price was a relevant and necessary piece of information to the procee

The Government is to seek to rationalise laws on harassment to prevent offenders from contacting their victims. Department of Justice officials are drafting a new Sexual Offences Bill, due to be published towards the end of the year.

Justice Minister Helen McEntee and Garda Commissioner, Drew Harris, have welcomed Ireland’s connection to the Schengen Information System (SIS II). The Schengen Information System is the largest and most widely used IT system for public security in Europe, with 30 countries participating.

Maples and Calder (Ireland) LLP, the Maples Group's law firm, has announced the promotion of six of its lawyers bringing the total number of senior appointments in the last six months to eight. 

Banks should be alert to the obstacles posed by the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009 in exercising their power of sale under housing loan mortgages, writes Andrew Richardson. As most mortgagee and receiver sales over the past decade related to mortgages executed before the economic dow

Committal proceedings against a former soldier charged with murder on Bloody Sunday began yesterday in Derry. Soldier F is accused of the murder of James Wray and William McKinney, on January 30th, 1972, when British troops fired on civil rights demonstrators, killing 13 people.

ByrneWallace LLP has announced it was adviser on 10 of the transactions shortlisted for the Finance Dublin Deal of the Year Awards 2021. Presented annually, the Finance Dublin Deals of the Year Awards recognise the best in class Irish corporate finance transactions and the leading deal makers and pr

The Employment Bar Association (EBA) is organising an online series, 'The world of work, post-Covid'. The first of the series commences this Thursday, 18 March at 4.30pm.

Scotland's chief prosecutor, the Lord Advocate, must not be permitted to “mark his own homework” over the botched Rangers fraud probe which has resulted in compensation of more than £20 million paid to the victims of the malicious prosecution, a court has heard. Roddy Dun