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Lawyers have been told to pay out over €470,000 in compensation and refunds since the Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) began handling complaints five years ago, a new report reveals. The LSRA today published its second bi-annual complaints report of 2024 and the 10th since the LSRA to

Transition Year students have been invited to enter the Law Society of Ireland's 2025 Gráinne O'Neill Memorial Legal Essay Competition. To enter, students are asked to submit a 1,500-word essay examining "the role the law can play in addressing hate crime" by Friday 22 November.

Tesco is to pay £45,000 to a former part-time employee who brought a complaint of sexual harassment and victimisation with support from the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland. Lara Storey, a former part-time Dotcom Personal Shopper, claimed that she had been subjected to sexual harassmen

A Russian court has slapped Google with a fine of around $20 decillion – thousands of times more than the entire world's GDP. The preposterous penalty arises from a years-long court case brought by Russian TV channels which have been banned from YouTube since 2020, partly as a result of US san

The Irish government has joined international condemnation of Israeli legislation targeting the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). Irish Legal News last week interviewed Philippa Greer, the head of UNRWA's field legal office in Gaza, who spoke abo

Planned coronial reforms should include the provision of legal aid for families and reform of the jury system at inquests, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has said. The Department of Justice last week published a report following a public consultation on reform of the Coroner Service an

Mason Hayes & Curran has partnered with the Trinity Corporate Governance Lab as its legal knowledge partner. The Corporate Governance Lab, an initiative of the Business School at Trinity College Dublin, explores and defines corporate governance best practice. It aims to bridge the gap between ac

Prison sentences have been imposed on a group of people who interrupted a live inquest in England and attempted to kidnap the coroner as part of a bizarre political plot. Mark Kishon Christopher, leader of the so-called 'Federal Postal Court Judges', was yesterday sentenced to seven years' imprisonm

Iraqis are being subjected to torture and other ill-treatment as well as enforced disappearance after being arrested in Al-Jed’ah Community Rehabilitation Centre in northern Iraq, Amnesty International said in a new investigation. Amnesty documented the cases of eight people, including seven m

One of the world's largest banks is suing customers who believed they had discovered an "infinite money glitch". Thousands of people may have taken advantage of the so-called glitch, which was actually a form of cheque fraud which briefly became a viral sensation on TikTok and other social media pla

Law student Marwa Zamir has been appointed to the new Young Ireland Advisory Council, which will advise the government on policies that affect children and young people. Ms Zamir is a third-year law student at Maynooth University and was recently named Law Student of the Year at the 2024 Dye & D

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is to see its budget grow to €72 million. The €11 million boost in Budget 2025 brings the office's budget to a record high, having increased by 40 per cent in five years.

Legislation allowing an employee who receives a diagnosis of a serious illness to postpone maternity leave until treatment is concluded has been passed by the Oireachtas. The key measure in the Maternity Protection, Employment Equality and Preservation of Certain Records Bill 2024 follows the 'Leave

A new self-service portal has been launched to allow for immigration registration appointments to be made online. The launch of the Digital Contact Centre (DCC) for the immigration function of the Department of Justice took place yesterday.

Chief Justice Donal O'Donnell has been awarded an honorary degree by Dublin City University.