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The barriers to open disclosure must be addressed if an open culture in healthcare is to be achieved, according to a medical protection organisation. The call from the Medical Protection Society (MPS) comes as the Patient Safety Bill 2018, which provides for open disclosure, continues to receive leg

New rules governing social media companies based in Ireland aim to be "robust" and equip a media commission with “significant enforcement powers”, the Department of Communications has said. It said that Minister Richard Bruton intends to bring a general scheme of the bill to the Gov

Keynote speakers at the Law Society of Nothern Ireland's Immigration Conference 2019.

Russia has passed legislation banning the sale of smartphones, computers and smart TVs that are not pre-installed with Russian software. The law, due to come in force next July, has come under criticism from privacy experts and the tech industry.

The new statutory scheme providing for periodic payment orders (PPO) for plaintiffs with catastrophic injuries has been described as “a dead letter” in the High Court. Noting that the Courts did not have discretion to fix an increase other than that specified in the Harmonised Index

Mr Justice John L. Murray, who served as Chief Justice of Ireland from 2004 to 2011, is set to join a distinguished panel to discuss the future constitutional arrangements for Ireland and Northern Ireland. The Hibernian Law Journal will host the panel discussion as its 2019 annual lecture, titled &l

Northern Ireland lawyer Conal McGarrity is bringing a landmark case concerning child maintenance orders to the European Court of Justice on behalf of a Polish man living in Northern Ireland. The case will consider whether child maintenance orders made in Poland five years before Poland's accession t

Alternative sentencing and policy approaches are needed to reduce the offending rate among young adults, the Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) has said. Speaking ahead of a seminar on youth justice this afternoon, IPRT executive director Fíona Ní Chinnéide said young adults are mo

The High Court in Belfast will hand down its ruling on Monday on a legal challenge to the requirement for local and European election candidates to disclose their home address. Former SDLP councillor Máiría Cahill, who is supported by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC

One of the world's leading sports law specialists, Michael Beloff QC, addressed Northern Ireland lawyers at the eighth annual sports law conference at Law Society House.

Holocaust survivor Tomi Reichental will be recognised by The Bar of Ireland at an awards ceremony later this month. Mr Reichental will receive the Bar's Human Rights Award 2019 in recognition of his work promoting tolerance and educating young people about the importance of remembrance and reconcili

The third Lawyers Against Homelessness (LAH) fundraising CPD event of the year is set to take place next month. The "Christmas Special" event will mark 50 years since the establishment of the Capuchin Day Centre for Homeless People and will hear from special guests including Mr Justice Kevin Cross a

Lawyers' groups have written to the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, over concerns about the detention of civilians, including lawyers, in Kashmir. The Bar Council of England and Wales and the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales expressed "serious concern" over reports that civilian

Edward “Ned” Kelly was a famous Irish-Australian bushranger and outlaw who was executed in November 1880. A martyr in the retelling of the British settlement of Australia, the story of Ned Kelly attracts a great degree of controversy as people disagree about whether he should be remember

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