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A man facing extradition to Poland under a European Arrest Warrant has had arguments based on Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights rejected in the High Court. Referring to a recent report regarding prison conditions, Mr Justice Donald Binchy said that 3m² of floor space per pris

Ireland has been ordered to pay a lump sum of €5 million to the European Commission and a further penalty of €15,000 per day until it complies with a European court ruling concerning a wind farm which was handed down over a decade ago. The Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the Europ

A judge will be appointed to oversee the redress scheme for victims and survivors of historical institutional abuse in Northern Ireland by the end of the week. David Sterling, head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service, met with victims and survivors yesterday to outline plans to set up the long-awa

The Supreme Court will next month hear an appeal from the State against a High Court ruling that sections of the Communications (Retention of Data) Act 2011 are inconsistent with EU law, according to reports. At a case management hearing on Monday, the Chief Justice, Mr Justice Frank Clarke, suggest

Employment legislation should be updated to prevent discrimination against people on the basis of past convictions, an Oireachtas committee has said. The justice committee recently produced a report on Ireland's spent convictions regime after hearing evidence from prisons and rehabilitation experts

LK Shields consultant Tom Simpson and trainee solicitor Katie Linden consider a recent Supreme Court judgment confirming that non-party funders can be held personally liable for costs. The Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that the principal shareholder and owner of a construction company is to be

A judge dismantled a legal argument about costs in a deportation case with remarkable eloquence and humour in a recently-published ruling. Mr Justice Richard Humphreys was asked to rule on costs in a case which was struck out with consent after the Minister for Justice withdrew the deportation order

Legal tech expert Professor Richard Susskind OBE will launch his new book, Online Courts and the Future of Justice, in Dublin next week. He will be speaking at the final instalment of Trinity College Law Review's Distinguished Speaker series in the Graduates Memorial Building, Trinity College on Tue

Almost all of the UK's top 200 law firms have been exposed to threats from cybercriminals, new research shows. A report from Crowe, an audit, tax, advisory and risk firm, in conjunction with KYND, a cyber risk prevention company, shows that 91 per cent of firms analysed are exposed to having th

Police officers who have been trained to look out for "green tongues" as evidence of cannabis use have fallen for "junk science", lawyers have said. The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) continues to list a "possible green coating on the tongue" as an indicator of cannabis use in

A pilot who is being sued for making defamatory statements online has been granted an order requiring Ryanair to provide an unredacted investigation report which had been almost completely redacted when first provided. Finding that the report was relevant and necessary to the issues at trial, Mr Jus

Lewis Silkin LLP has announced the appointment of Victor Timon as a partner in Dublin to head up a new commercial, technology and intellectual property practice. Joining from Maples, where he was head of commercial technology and data privacy, Mr Timon brings over 35 years' experience in commercial,

Sligo solicitor Michele O'Boyle has been appointed as the 149th president of the Law Society of Ireland. The first woman to serve as Law Society president since 2003 and the fourth woman of all time, Ms O'Boyle has pledged to make women in leadership one of the priorities of her term.

A new cross-border crime agency is not "practicably possible" due to the collapse of devolution in Northern Ireland, Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has said. The idea of a new agency has been repeatedly raised in discussions about the abduction and torture of businessman Kevin Lunney by a cross-b

Former president Mary Robinson has commended legal rights group FLAC for creating a community of lawyers who pursue access to justice for those who need its services most. Mrs Robinson, the current chair of The Elders and a former FLAC volunteer, was the guest of honour at the organisation’s 5