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The Director of Public Prosecutions has lost an appeal against wholly suspended sentence which was given to a man who pleaded guilty to stabbing another man in the back with a kitchen knife. Accepting that the sentence was indeed a very lenient one, Mr Justice John Edwards said that an ent

A judge has warned that lawyers concerned about changes to the way in which asylum, immigration and citizenship cases are run in the High Court should avoid writing "manifestos" The Irish Times reports. Mr Justice Richard Humphreys said that if solicitors and barristers want to discuss the rules, de

Tughans has topped an M&A league table for the fourth consecutive year. The firm was credited with 59 deals in total last year, representing 27 per cent of all Northern Ireland deals identified in the Experian MarketIQ United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland M&A Review.

A man employed by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is to go on trial in May over allegations he leaked information on a murder trial, The Times reports. Jonathan Lennon, 35, of Clonee, Dublin 15, has been charged with four counts of contravening the Official Secrets Act 1963 in respect

Scottish lawyers have given their overwhelming backing to a "People's Vote" on the final Brexit deal in a poll conducted by our sister publication, Scottish Legal News.

Dr Ian Cooper of the Dublin City University's Brexit Institute divulged his seven-part run-down on the Brexit process to an audience drawn from law, politics and academia at an event in JW Sweetman on Friday. For Brexit to be successfully carried out, the British government needs to pass through wha

Google has become the first US company to be fined under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). France’s data watchdog, the CNIL, issued a €50 million fine to the search engine after it violated GDPR by failing to tell its users how it collected data and by also declining to provi

Austrian privacy campaigner Max Schrems has lodged complaints against eight online streaming services in relation to alleged "structural violations" of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Non-profit organisation NOYB (None Of Your Business), said it filed a complaint with Austria's D

A former soldier who contracted Q fever in Afghanistan is suing the Ministry of Defence in what could be a landmark case, the BBC reports. Wayne Bass said his life has been ruined by the condition that could have been prevented had he been given antibiotics to protect him from the disease.

US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is to appear on film – in the new Lego movie. Justice Ginsburg, known to her fans as the "Notorious RBG", will appear as a Lego figure clothed in judicial garb.

A long-dead anti-Nazi resistance leader struck a blow for freedom when his statue toppled onto a fascist vandal who was trying to destroy the monument and broke his leg. In the incident described by the authorities in the Croatian coastal town of Split as “savage vandalism”, police said

A man whose son was murdered in 1997 has successfully appealed a case management decision not to remove a stay on the hearing of his application to issue judicial review proceedings against the PSNI, the Department of Justice, and the Coroner’s Service. The Court of Appeal said that a comment

Court business in Derry has been disrupted after a car bomb exploded outside the Bishop Street courthouse on Saturday evening. Crown Court business involving trials and juries has been adjourned until tomorrow, while all other Crown Court business will be dealt with at Coleraine courthouse today.

The latest tranche of case reports from the Child Care Law Reporting Project (CCLRP) reveal that homelessness is leading to children being kept in care. The second volume of 2018 case reports, now available from the project's website, includes 38 cases from all parts of the State.

Ireland should not be "smug" about conducting referendums "right while Britain does it wrong", a senior academic has warned. Speaking at an event hosted by Dublin Law and Politics Review on Friday night, Professor Eoin O'Malley of DCU School of Law & Government offered his critical analysis of w