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Human rights NGO Reprieve has intervened in a UK Supreme Court case arguing that the Home Secretary is putting British lives around the globe at risk by refusing to seek death penalty assurances from the US for two men currently held in Syria. Maha Elgizouli V Secretary of State for the Home Departm

Confused police officers burst into the wrong home and ordered a bewildered young man to drop his boxers and lift up his testicles in a botched drug raid. The Gracey family – Joe, 60; Jacqueline, 56; Anthony, 23; Andrew, 32; and Ellie, 11 – were woken by the early morning raid, which abr

A man who was found with drugs valued at nearly €270,000 during a search of his house has had his sentence decreased in the Court of Appeal. Finding that the original sentence of ten years with the final three suspended was “an error of principle” due to the very strong mitigation w

Child law expert Dr Conor O'Mahony has been appointed as special rapporteur on child protection for a three-year term. Dr O'Mahony is director of the child care law clinic at UCC, where he has supported litigation concerning children and advocated for law reform in the area of child law. He has publ

The Law Society of Ireland has appointed Riccardo Savona Siemens as editor-in-chief of the Hibernian Law Journal. Mr Siemens, a member of the outgoing board, succeeds Ciarán Donohue in the role and will edit the 19th volume of the Journal.

A man who was wrongfully arrested on suspicion of attacking his fiancée, even though she insisted it was another man, has been awarded over €1 million by a High Court jury. Gerald Jennings, 34, sued the Garda Commissioner and the State over his arrest in Carlow on 2 December 2012 on susp

A full obituary of Northern Ireland barrister Charles Quin QC, who became a senior judge in the Caribbean, has been published by The Times. Mr Quin, who was born in Co Down in 1950 and began his legal career by being called to The Bar of Northern Ireland in 1978, passed away last month.

A new online system for third level non-EEA students in Dublin to renew their immigration registration with the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) will be rolled out next month. The new arrangements, in effect from 26 August 2019 to coincide with the start of the new academic year,

The standard of proof applying to solicitors subject to misconduct proceedings has been lowered from "beyond all reasonable doubt" to a "balance of probabilities" following approval from the regulator. The Legal Services Board supported an application from the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT)

The Court of Appeal has reserved its judgment on whether to alter the sentence of a man who was jailed for three years after raping his wife, who asked a judge not to send him to prison. The 38-year-old man was found guilty following a trial at the Central Criminal Court of raping and sexually assau

Young solicitors were briefed on key planning and property law issues at a lively CPD event organised by the Dublin Solicitors' Bar Association (DBSA) Younger Members (YM) committee.

The first edition of the annual Irish Supreme Court Review (ISCR), drawn from papers presented at the inaugural ISCR conference last October, has been published. The Chief Justice of Ireland, Mr Justice Frank Clarke, is among 14 high-profile contributors to the inaugural edition of the peer-reviewed

Sampling without authorisation can infringe a phonogram producer’s rights, though the use of a sound sample taken from a phonogram in a modified form unrecognisable to the ear does not infringe those rights, even without such authorisation, the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled

Most Irish workers believe they will have to work past the age of 66 despite wanting to retire, according to new research by William Fry. The firm is warning employers to prepare for an ageing workforce by implementing age-diverse policies and initiatives.

Human rights expert Professor Colin Harvey has called for a national conversation on Irish unity as a "way back to the EU". Professor Harvey, professor of human rights law at Queen's University Belfast, said it would be "irresponsible not to talk about this".