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Organisations which support victims of crime have been awarded just under €4 million in government funding. The funding has been allocated to 10 national victim support organisations, including general victims support organisations, specialist organisations, and services in support of victims o

BHSM LLP has appointed Keith Doyle as partner in the firm's commercial real estate department. Mr Doyle joined the firm in 2021 as a senior associate, having previously spent a number of years in the commercial real estate department of a major Dublin law firm.

A video game company is facing EU enforcement action for allegedly pressuring children to buy virtual currency. The enforcement action taken by the Consumer Protection Cooperation (CPC) Network and co-ordinated by the European Commission follows a complaint to a Swedish watchdog concerning the game

The Trump administration is facing legal action after publishing sensitive personal information about hundreds of people involved in investigating the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy. Newly-declassified files include the unredacted social security numbers of hundreds of congressional staffers,

The Hibernian Law Journal has again extended its submission deadline for inclusion in Volume 24. The new submission deadline is Monday 14 April 2025.

One in every two people who have reported domestic abuse to An Garda Síochána are dissatisfied with their overall experience, according to a new report. The Garda Inspectorate yesterday published a report on the force's approach to prevention, protection, prosecution and victim support

A proposed constitutional amendment would remove religious and gendered language from the judicial oath of office. Barry Ward SC, a barrister and a Fine Gael TD for Dún Laoghaire, yesterday presented the Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Judicial Oath of Office) Bill 2025 to the D&a

A complaint has been filed with Norway's data protection authority on behalf of a man who was falsely described by ChatGPT as having murdered his two children. European privacy campaign group noyb is acting on behalf of Arve Hjalmar Holmen, who says he tried to find out what information ChatGPT coul

Mediator Academy and the Law Society of Ireland announce the launch of the Certificate in Mediator Training 2025, a fully online programme which will be delivered through the Law Society’s Diploma Centre. The programme consists of four Modules of self-directed, interactive online learning alon

BHSM LLP has welcomed Hannah Kenny and Jessica Russell as newly-qualified solicitors following the completion of their training with the firm. Ms Kenny has joined the firm's real estate department, while Ms Russell has been appointed to the firm's corporate department.

Greenpeace has been ordered to pay $660 million in damages to an oil and gas company following US legal proceedings that the environmental group has described as a "meritless SLAPP". Texas-based company Energy Transfer accused Greenpeace of defamation and orchestrating criminal behaviour in relation

A judge has drawn criticism from his colleagues after filming a video of him loading several guns in his judicial chambers which he then attached to a dissenting judgment. The nearly 20-minute long video was posted to YouTube by the American judge as he dissented from a ruling upholding a California

The Law Society and Bar Council of Northern Ireland have joined international condemnation of the Trump administration's attacks on lawyers in the US and internationally. A joint statement issued this week says US sanctions on International Criminal Court (ICC) personnel and their families "constitu

A new charter has been launched to assist with court cases in Northern Ireland where one party is a litigant in person (LIP). The Law Society of Northern Ireland, Ulster University and the Litigant in Person Reference Group collaborated to create the new charter, which is designed to assist lawyers,

Ryanair has initiated a private criminal prosecution in the Spanish courts against a passenger who allegedly disrupted a flight while claiming to be a UN diplomat. The Irish airline has accused the passenger of causing a 40-minute departure delay to the flight FR2001 from Lanzaro to Santiago on 17 J