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A mother-of-four, who was refused bereavement benefits upon the death of her cohabiting partner of 23 years, has had her application for judicial review dismissed by the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal. The Court overturned the decision of the the High Court, in which Justice Treacy found that the

Martha Spurrier, director of Liberty Liberty is launching a legal challenge to the UK's Investigatory Powers Act – legislation that allows the state to monitor everybody’s web history and email, text and phone records, and hack computers, phones and tablets on an industrial scale.

The European Commission has proposed legislation to bring rules for all electronic communication providers in line with the ePrivacy Directive and the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). A key proposal in the Regulation on Privacy and Electronic Communications extends privacy rules to ne

Barrister Kieron Wood has turned what might have been a footnote of history into a highly readable account of the long-running affair between the Allied commander General Dwight D Eisenhower and his West Cork-born chauffeuse Kay Summersby (née MacCarthy-Morrogh). It may seem frivolous and dis

Facebook has succeeded in its appeal against an award of £20,000 in compensation, which the High Court held it was liable to pay to a convicted sex offender for misuse of private information. In finding that Facebook could only be held liable for a limited 10-day period in which information about t

Calls to the LawCare helpline in 2016 from lawyers in the UK and Ireland rose by 12 per cent compared with 2015. The top two most common reasons for calls remain the same, with stress at 38 per cent of calls (37 per cent in 2015) and depression at 12 per cent (11 per cent).

Paul Keane Paul Keane, managing partner at Reddy Charlton Solicitors in Dublin, explores friendship in the era of social media.

A man who was given a lifelong ban from driving has had his disqualification reduced to one of forty years in the Court of Appeal. The man also challenged the severity of the two-year custodial sentence imposed upon him in the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, arguing that the sentencing judge made an

A man who was adjudicated bankrupt in December 2015 has had his bankruptcy extended by five years due to his “complete failure to co-operate with the bankruptcy process”. Ms Justice Caroline Costello ruled that the man, who would have been automatically discharged from bankruptcy in December 201

Anyone who wants to understand modern Russia and the collective sense of humiliation felt by the Russian people should read this powerful collection of interviews, mainly with Sovoks, those Russians brought up in the Soviet era and who lived through the transition of the crumbling one-party state in

Holmes O'Malley Sexton Solicitors has welcomed four new lawyers to its Dublin office team at its new premises at 2 Ely Place.

A man who served five years for possession of heroin with intent to supply, has been unsuccessful in his appeal to the Supreme Court in which he claimed that the solicitors representing him at his criminal trial were liable for worry and stress in the week running up to his trial in 1999. The man cl

A man has failed in his attempt to render himself immune from prosecution by arguing that a law drafted 115 years ago criminalised certain homosexual activity. The man, whose identity cannot be published, is charged with seven counts of gross indecency under section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment

Paul Joyce FLAC (Free Legal Advice Centres) has said changes to the mortgage-to-rent scheme announced by Housing Minister Simon Coveney following a review by his department are encouraging.

The UK government will move ahead with plans to allow people accused of petty crimes to plead guilty and be sentenced online. A Ministry of Justice (MoJ) report has recommended the system, which is voluntary, be trialled with non-custodial sentences, including railway fare evasion.