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A tool that aims to make the UK’s human rights records transparent and the government accountable has been launched. HumanRightsTracker.com allows civil society organisations, academics, parliamentarians and legal professionals to learn about the UK’s human rights duties under UN treatie

California has introduced a ban on the sale and manufacture of new fur products, becoming the first state in the US to do so. The new law was brought into effect at the same time as legislation barring most animals from circus performances, The Guardian reports.

A man lost most of his life savings after his best friend turned an oil-fired boiler in his workshop on – unaware that €540,000 was stashed inside. The 49-year-old from Soest, near Dortmund in Germany, had kept the cash in the boiler because it was no longer used.

The Minister for Health has lost his application to have proceedings challenging proposed new pharmacy rules split into two separate hearings. Refusing the application, Mr Justice Anthony Barr said splitting the trial was likely to raise the overall costs of the action and that it important not to d

Legislation to reduce the requirement for spouses to live apart for a minimum of four years out of the preceding five before they can be granted a divorce has been published. The Family Law Bill 2019 reduces the minimum living apart period specified in the Family Law (Divorce) Act 1996 to two years

A lay litigant yesterday attempted to arrest a High Court judge, a solicitor and a barrister at the Four Courts. Stephen Manning, a candidate in the 2016 general election, asked Mr Justice Michael MacGrath, as well as a solicitor for the DPP and a barrister, to accompany him to a Garda station where

The Law Society of Ireland has said it is investigating allegations about a private text messaging group in which law students are said to have posted "highly offensive" messages about their female colleagues. Students at the Law Society's law school have been warned by email that the alleged conduc

Personal injury and road traffic accident specialist law firm JMK Solicitors has welcomed five law graduates to its Belfast and Newry offices under its 2019 graduate programme. Izabella Andrzejewska, Elliemay Jennings, Danielle Bradley, Orlaith Hughes and Jordan Kelly will work in va

Mr Justice John Edwards joined law students and faculty at Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) for the official launch of the LIT Law Society, which has already signed up more than 75 members. The Court of Appeal judge attended the special ceremony at the university's Moylish Campus along with se

Retired judge Mr Justice Bryan McMahon will examine the impact of direct provision on asylum seekers at the Law Society of Ireland's annual human rights conference tomorrow. The former High Court judge, who chairs the working group on direct provision and the protection process, joins a range of not

Maynooth University Department of Law is hosting a series of events to mark the department's 10th anniversary. The youngest law school in Ireland kicked off celebrations this week and events have been scheduled until the end of November.

Concerns have been raised about the possibility of delays to the work of the new €1.25 billion Land Development Agency (LDA) because of EU state aid rules. Confidential legal advice drawn up by a Dáil legal adviser for the Oireachtas housing committee, seen by The Irish Times, warns that

The Law Society of Northern Ireland hosted an early morning pilates class yesterday to mark World Mental Health Day.

A solicitor who had sex with a drunk junior colleague, which a tribunal found he did not initiate, has been fined £35,000 and ordered to pay £200,000 in costs amid calls his case be referred to the police. Ryan Beckwith, 41, a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, brought the profes

The European Union should support and assist the process of Irish unity, according to a new report by legal academic Professor Colin Harvey and barrister Mark Bassett. The independent legal and academic report was commissioned by the European United Left/Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL) group in the Euro