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A court has ruled by a majority that the rectum is "inherently personal and private" after limiting how police can perform body cavity searches. Guntallwon Brown was arrested in 2015 after he sold an undercover officer crack cocaine then hid a bag of the substance in his backside.

An airline has been ordered to repay training costs which were deducted from a pilot’s wages when he resigned from the company within three years of being trained on a new aircraft. The pilot had signed a training bond with the airline when he was based in London, however, when he was relocate

Data privacy and employment law specialist practice Crowley Solicitors has become part of Matheson, with founder Deirdre Crowley joining the firm's Cork office as a partner. Ms Crowley brings her existing team to Matheson, increasing the headcount in the Cork office to 13. The appointments, combined

A new initiative to encourage greater diversity and inclusion in the legal profession has been launched by UCD Sutherland School of Law in partnership with Mason Hayes & Curran. The student support initiative, called Opportunity, will provide a a suite of resources for students from under-repres

Four partners at Cork firm J.W. O'Donovan Solicitors recently advised on the sale of a majority holding in Advanced Laboratory Testing (ALT) to Mérieux NutriSciences. Partners John Sheehan, John Fuller, David Pearson and Ciara McDonnell advised on the transaction, which saw US-headquartered M

Ronan Daly Jermyn partner Gillian Keating has been ranked as one of Cork's most influential women by RSVP Magazine. Ms Keating leads the firm's corporate and commercial department and the firm's technology and life sciences groups.

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Belfast firm Cleaver Fulton Rankin has advised one of Northern Ireland's largest textile companies, Ulster Carpets, on its new partnership with Mourne Textiles. The new company, called Mourne Weavers, has been aims to expand and develop the export trade and to explore global opportunities for the tw

A senior Conservative politician and law professor has said Prime Minister Boris Johnson must resign if he is unwilling to follow the law. A bill to block a no-deal Brexit was passed on Friday.

Northern Ireland's top legal figures attended a prayer service to mark the start of the new legal year yesterday.

The Bar Council has partnered with a Silicon Valley company to create an app for barristers to report bullying and sexual harassment. Talk to Spot will be rolled out this autumn and follows reports this year of widespread inappropriate behaviour at the bar.

A city is to begin fining people for failing to weed the pavement outside their homes. Sandy Evrard, mayor of Belgium's smallest city, Mesen, has sent its citizens a letter telling them they face a €125 fine (£112) if they avoid weeding, collecting litter or picking up dog mess, VRT repor

The Court of Appeal in Belfast has found that the Northern Ireland Valuation Tribunal erred in its interpretation of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977 when it found that ramps were qualifying facilities for the purpose of being granted rates relief under the legislation. Delivering the judgmen

The Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, Sir Declan Morgan, has hit out at the "shocking" lack of progress on redress for victims of historical institutional abuse. The late Sir Anthony Hart chaired an inquiry which recommended, in its 2017 final report, that victims should receive compensation.

Academics in Dublin, Belfast and London have launched a major new investigation into how any future referendum on the constitutional status of Northern Ireland would best be designed and conducted. An inter-disciplinary working group has been established by academics in the Constitution Unit at UCL,