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A music festival billed as being "male-free" has been found guilty of discrimination by Sweden's Discrimination Ombudsman (DO). The regulator noted that the publicity surrounding the event, which was held earlier this year, "discouraged a certain group from attending".

The UK government will pay compensation to Britons who were resettled abroad in the post-war period. Around 4,000 children were sent to different institutions in the Commonwealth between 1945 and 1970, where many of them say they were sexually, physically and mentally abused.

An absurd €19,000 insurance quote obtained by a teenager for a 14-year-old car has been decried as an "outrageous" tax on rural Ireland. Leitrem councillor Padraig Fallon told The Irish Times that an 18-year-old approached him to say he had been quoted €18,693.95 - including a €100 di

The former CEO of the Ulster Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (USPCA) has been sentenced to nine months imprisonment, suspended for two years, after he pleaded guilty to fraud earlier this year. The former CEO had taken approximately £40,000 from the charity over a seven-year p

Proposals to take prosecution decisions away from An Garda Síochána and given to an expanded state solicitor or national prosecution service will be examined by the Government in the second half of next year. Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan yesterday announced a four-year implementat

Delays in Northern Ireland's criminal justice system are leading complainants to withdraw from the justice process altogether, a senior PSNI officer has warned. DCS Paula Hilman, head of the PSNI's public protection branch, told BBC News that it takes "significantly longer" for a case to go to court

Former Labour Party leader Pat Rabbitte has been appointed chair of Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, with effect from next year. Children's Minister Dr Katherine Zappone announced the appointment following a selection process managed by the Public Appointments Service in accordance with the Gover

Dillon Eustace acted as advisers to the shareholders of an Irish company specialising in file and document storage on its sale to US-based multinational Iron Mountain. Superior Storage Limited, based in Dunshaughlin, was sold to the US information management services company for an undisclosed amoun

Barry Kelleher, solicitor at Comyn Kelleher Tobin, analyses a recent High Court judgment proposing greater personal responsibility and common sense in personal injuries claims. In the personal injuries proceeding of Vincent O’Mahoney v Nicola McCarthy Hanlon and Waterford and Wexford Training

A woman who failed to fully inherit the estate of her deceased husband, based on a will written in accordance with Greek civil law, because Greece automatically applies Sharia law to Greeks of Muslim faith suffered a violation of Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination) of the European Convention

An Irish lawyer who won a silver medal at the Hockey Women's World Cup this year has reflected on balancing her legal and athletic careers in an interview with Mason Hayes & Curran.

The Belfast Solicitors Association (BSA) has launched its 2018/19 charity partnership with Northern Ireland Chest Heart and Stroke (NICHS). Enda Lavery, solicitor at MTB Solicitors, announced the association's support for the local health charity at the BSA AGM in October, where he was elected as ch

Six people in the Midlands have been jailed for being members of the proscribed neo-Nazi group National Action (NA), including a couple who gave their son the middle name "Adolf" in tribute to the Nazi leader. Leicester man Daniel Bogunovic, 27, and Oxfordshire couple Adam Thomas, 22, and Claudia Pa

Music star Shakira is facing prosecution in Spain for allegedly avoiding €14.5 million in taxes between 2012 and 2014. The singer - made famous in Europe by her record-breaking hit "Hips Don't Lie" - allegedly used 14 shell companies to hide income while a Spanish resident.

A 21-year-old man who had 33 previous convictions when he was sentenced to three years imprisonment for two burglaries has had his sentence increased after the Director of Public Prosecutions argued that the sentences should be reviewed on grounds of undue leniency. Finding that the overall sentence