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The mother of a Co Down schoolboy who died after he was given a combined measles and rubella vaccine has suffered “interminable uncertainty and delay” over a second inquest, a High Court judge has said. Anne Coulter has been waiting for seven years for a new hearing following the death o

The Serious Fraud Office has fined a subsidiary of Serco Group £19.2 million. The SFO announced that a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) with Serco Geografix Limited (SGL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Serco Group, has been approved in principle by Mr Justice William Davis.

International law firm DAC Beachcroft has opened for business in Belfast. This is the second new office the firm has launched this year, having opened in Paris in January.

Trinity College Dublin has awarded its prestigious Nael G. Bunni Medal to Michael Mulcahy SC at a recent ceremony in the College. The medal was awarded for outstanding course work in the renowned Trinity College Dublin Construction Law and Contract Administration Postgraduate Diploma Course.

Chief Justice Frank Clark delivered a speech at a Lawyers Against Homelessness charity CPD event. He talked about various matters including: keeping up with changes in the law; the number of judges and judicial appointments; court resources and IT; and access to justice.

A Jewish housing association that fended off a discrimination challenge earlier this year has prevailed again after the Court of Appeal upheld the High Court's judgment. Agudas Israel Housing Association (AIHA), which provides accommodation exclusively for Jewish Orthodox families, defeated an

Arrests for eel-smuggling have rocketed by 50 per cent in Europe following a concerted effort by enforcement agencies. Eels are highly sought after in China and elsewhere in East Asia and about 350 million are trafficked out of the EU every year.

A woman who was fifteen when she is alleged to have been involved in a violent attack in which a seventeen-year-old boy was stabbed and beaten, has failed to halt the further prosecution of criminal charges pending against her. Finding that there was no culpable or blameworthy prosecutorial delay, M

Matheson has announced the appointment of Sharon Daly, who is widely acknowledged as one of Ireland’s leading corporate litigators, as head of its London office. Ms Daly has re-located from Dublin to London. Speaking from the firm’s London office, Managing Partner Michael Jackson said: &

A journalist has been fined €2,500 by a Central Criminal Court judge after he named one of the boys convicted of teenager Ana Kriegel's murder during a live radio broadcast. The radio station, Cork's Red FM, was fined €10,000.

The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has marked the entry into force today of the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, by setting out its recommendations for key priority actions from the State. The Commission, as Ireland’s nat

Employment law solicitor Richard Grogan of Richard Grogan & Associates clarifies some key points on the law of constructive dismissal. In case ADJ20041 the AO in this case helpfully set out the law at some length.

Millar McCall Wylie recently advised an e-learning company, which boasts 650 private and public sector customers and was crowned Learning Technologies Company of the Year, on a multi-million-pound acquisition. Award-winning online learning company, Learning Pool, has acquired HT2 Labs, the Oxfordshi

The family of a man killed in an alleged hit and run more than three decades ago has brought damages action against the State. James Clancy, 80, died after he was hit by a truck on Patrick Street, Tullamore on December 1, 1987, the Longford Leader reports.

A formal complaint has been filed with the European Commission against the UK for allegedly flouting the EU’s regulation on data protection (GDPR) by including a broad immigration control exemption in its new Data Protection Act.  The Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented