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Legislation underpinning the retention of data by gardaí will be amended following a successful EU court challenge brought by convicted murderer Graham Dwyer, the government has announced. In April, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) held that the "general

Canada should ban the buying and selling of all handguns, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said. Under a proposed law, private ownership of of all short-barrelled firearms would be prohibited.

A consortium of Ukrainian and international lawyers is organising a mass civil legal action against the Russian state and others in order to gain $1 trillion in financial compensation for millions of Ukrainian victims of the war, The Guardian reports. The team of hundreds of lawyers aims to bring &l

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is seeking to open an office in Kyiv to support its investigations into alleged war crimes in Ukraine. Karim Khan, the ICC prosecutor, confirmed the move at a press conference yesterday following meetings with Ukrainian, Polish and Lithuanian prosecutors at Eur

Conor Courtney, Northern Ireland case reporter at Irish Legal News, has been shortlisted in the Newcomer of the Year category at the Justice Media Awards 2022. Mr Courtney joined the ILN team in August 2021 and has since produced more than 50 detailed reports of judgments from the Northern Ireland c

London-based barrister Gráinne Mellon has been shortlisted as Legal Aid Barrister of the Year at the 2022 Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Awards. Originally from Dublin and called to the Bar in Ireland and Northern Ireland in 2010 and 2013 respectively, Ms Mellon practises with Garden Court Cham

A Coleraine woman who was sexually harassed by her supervisor over a long period of time has been awarded £20,000 by the Industrial Tribunal. Shauna McFarland was supported by the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland in her case against former employer Morelli Ice Cream Ltd and their emplo

Children's favourite Winnie the Pooh is to be reimagined as a serial killer. In addition to Pooh and Piglet, director Rhys Frake-Waterfield's new indie horror flick – Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey – will feature the likes of “Caged Man” and “Mauled Woman”.

The UK Information Commissioner has called on the criminal justice sector to immediately stop collecting excessive amounts of personal information from complainants in rape and serious sexual assault cases. The call is published in a Commissioner’s Opinion which informs the sector how to use p

Laws that are premised on the traditional notions of obscenity and indecency will not help to keep children safe online, an academic has warned. Existing laws that are reliant on a standard of ‘morality’ and obscenity have proven to be ineffective for regulating adult pornography on the

Northern Ireland corporate and commercial law firm Mills Selig has announced the promotion of Rebecca Logan to senior associate. Ms Logan joined Mills Selig as a commercial litigation solicitor in 2019, having previously spent three years at a specialist commercial litigation firm in the north-east

Dublin firm Richard Grogan & Associates has announced the promotion of employment law specialist Natasha Hand to senior associate in the firm. A graduate of NUI Galway, Ms Hand joined the firm as a trainee in 2018 and was appointed as an associate solicitor in 2019.

Lisa Smith, a former member of the Defence Forces, has become the first person in the State to be convicted of membership of terror group Islamic State (IS). After a nine-week trial in the non-jury Special Criminal Court, Ms Smith was convicted of membership of an unlawful organisation and acquitted

A team from the King's Inns has won the International Criminal Court (ICC) Moot Court Competition in the English language. The final round, held on a hybrid basis with judges sitting in The Hague and students participating by video link, saw competing teams present oral arguments in a fictitious cas

Hastings Direct has appointed insurance law firm BLM to its legal panel. The firm will deal with large and complex loss claims in the UK and Ireland under the three-year partnership.