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A bomb threat which grounded a passenger plane was found to be a hoax orchestrated by a furious mother trying to stop her married son going on holiday with his mistress. The threat was taken seriously and led to the cancellation of the flight from Dhaka, Bangladesh to Kathmandu, Nepal on Saturday,&n

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The Equality Commission for Northern Ireland is facing a lawsuit for allegedly failing to comply with its obligations towards trans people under EU law and the European Convention on Human Rights. The Good Law Project said it was taking the legal challenge after the Commission advised an employer th

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Alternative legal services provider Johnson Hana has been acquired by US-headquartered Eudia. Johnson Hana was founded in 2017 by former barrister Dan Fox and now counts Citibank, Stripe, Airbnb, X and OpenAI among its clients.

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As most of France celebrates the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille, one Frenchman is returning to prison two days after a remarkable escape. The 20-year-old man, who has not been named, is believed to have escaped from the Corbas prison near Lyon by hiding in a laundry bag belonging to a c

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The Department of Social Protection has been criticised for launching High Court proceedings in a response to a €550,000 fine for breaching the GDPR. The Data Protection Commission (DPC) last month announced its decision that the Department had failed to identify a valid legal basis for collect

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The EU has begun consulting on the most significant changes to its competition law enforcement framework in over two decades. The European Commission yesterday launched both a call for evidence and a public consultation inviting stakeholders to give feedback on the future of the EU procedures for th

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Simon Harris has said the Irish government remains a "steadfast supporter" of Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on Palestine who has been sanctioned by the Trump administration. The Tánaiste yesterday told TDs that the imposition of US sanctions on Ms Albanese, an outspoken oppone

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