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Businesses in Northern Ireland have been protected from the threat of eviction for non-payment of rent for a further three months. Finance Minister Conor Murphy has extended emergency provisions for commercial tenants in the Coronavirus Act 2020 until 31 March 2021.

Major changes to the way courts interpret the Human Rights Act are necessary so the legislation does more to protect people detained because of the expansion of police powers, a new study says. The right to liberty and security is enshrined in article 5 of the act and was intended to refer to arrest

A court in Germany has fined a University of Warwick historian €4,000 (£3,700) after she breached an injunction regarding claims that a concentration camp prisoner had had a lesbian affair with an SS guard. In April, Frankfurt regional court ruled that Dr Anna Hájková, assoc

A 12-year-old DJ who organised an illegal rave in his school bathrooms has been reprimanded. Cael Bell brought pro DJ equipment and lights to his underground party in the boys' bathroom at St Antony's Catholic College in Greater Manchester.

The High Court has granted an application by Norwegian Air to appoint an examiner over six companies in the Norwegian Group. The court noted that the struggling company had met serious challenges in recent times, with the airline only having six planes in use due to the coronavirus pandemic. The cou

Eversheds Sutherland has named five new senior associates and three new associates in Dublin as part of a New Year appointments round. Corporate lawyers Jonathan Ennis, Katie Haberlin and Ryan Duggan have been promoted to senior associate alongside litigation lawyer Aonghus McClafferty and tax lawye

Jury trials and other courts and tribunals hearings will continue to be held following the imposition of new Covid-19 restrictions, Justice Minister Naomi Long has said. The Northern Ireland Executive has announced a significant tightening of public health restrictions for a six-week period starting

The taking or sharing of intimate images without consent, otherwise known as image-based sexual abuse, is set to become a criminal offence under a new law approved by the Oireachtas. The Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill was amended last month to include the new offences i

The Workplace Relations Commission has launched a public consultation on the drafting of a new code of practice on the "right to disconnect". The code will set out guidance for employees and employers with regard to best practice and approaches to employee disengagement outside normal working hours.

Legislation modernising investment limited partnerships (ILPs) in Ireland has been approved by the Oireachtas and is due to be signed into law. The Investment Limited Partnership (Amendment) Bill 2020 modernises the Investment Limited Partnership Act 1994 and aligns it with more recent domestic and

Two Irish-born legal academics, Professor Conor Gearty and Professor Alan Dignam, are to be appointed as honorary Queen's Counsel. The pair, both based in London, are among the six honorary QCs named alongside 116 new QCs in the 2020 appointments round.

Tributes have been paid to Cork solicitor Kieran O'Callaghan after he unexpectedly passed away last Thursday. Judge Olann Kelleher led tributes to the late Mr O'Callaghan at Cork District Court, the Irish Examiner reported on Saturday.

Courts considering medical treatment for a child must balance and protect their constitutional rights as a child, with due regard to the rights of their parents, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has reaffirmed. The human rights watchdog has published its legal submissions to the Suprem

Proposed powers that would let HMRC force financial institutions to provide information regarding people's assets without their approval are "flawed", a House of Lords committee has said. In a new report, the Economics Affairs Committee criticised a proposal in the Finance Bill, which will beco

An English judge has awarded a German artist £36,500 in damages after her vehicle was unlawfully sold by Welsh police before she was able to recover it. The Chief Constable of North Wales Police refused to allow Astrid Linse to recover her Mercedes-Benz Unimog truck in 2019, eve