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An accomplished GAA and rugby player who injured his knee when his foot went into a small hole beside a chamber owned by Eircom has been awarded €51,936 in the High Court. Finding that Eircom was responsible for maintaining the concrete around the chamber, Mr Justice Robert Barr was satisfied t

Dublin-based Fahy Bambury Solicitors has announced the appointment of Seán McCormack as a solicitor. Mr McCormack, who recently joined the Roll of Solicitors, will join the superior courts section of the criminal defence and human rights practice.

The Government will complete a review of the Defamation Act 2009 by April 2019, Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan announced today. The review will cover the respective roles of judge and jury in defamation cases; the defences available to the media in the context of public-interest news reporting; a

Six solicitors and four barristers have been reappointed to the Personal Insolvency Practitioners Complaints Committee panel for five years. The Department of Justice and Equality wrote to all 18 members of the inaugural panel, established under section 177 of the Personal Insolvency Act 2012, to as

The State has yet to announce if it will appeal a High Court ruling that sections of the Communications (Retention of Data) Act 2011 are inconsistent with EU law. Earlier this month, Mr Justice Tony O'Connor found that convicted murderer Graham Dwyer was entitled to certain limited declarations

Lisa Bryson, head of employment and immigration at Eversheds Sutherland in Belfast, has welcomed the UK government's white paper on immigration as evidence that the voice of Northern Ireland businesses has "not been ignored". However, she said proposals regarding lower-skilled workers were concernin

The number of sexual offences recorded by gardaí in the year ending September 2018 was up by 12 per cent on the year before, according to new figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO). The Recorded Crime Q3 2018 report shows increases in most crime groups, including a 23 per cent incre

Draft legislation to allow Ireland to ratify the Istanbul Convention on violence against women next year has reached third stage in the Seanad. Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan thanked Senators for the "warm welcome" for the final piece of legislation required to allow Ireland to ratify the Council

Techniques used by police and lawyers to trawl through the phones and private data of rape complainants are to be investigated by a watchdog. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has announced it will undertake an inquiry into whether data protection rules are being breached within the

The UK Supreme Court is once again holding its essay competition, open to Northern Ireland's Year 13 and 14 pupils, with a top prize that includes tea with a justice. Have you recently been on a tour of the Supreme Court with your school? Did your visit spark an interest in the law? Are you consider

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Santander nearly £33 million for failing to transfer funds totalling over £183 million to the beneficiaries of tens of thousands of deceased UK customers. The watchdog's investigation found that 40,428 customers were directly affected, and

The Court of Appeal in London has ruled that Uber drivers should be considered workers, with the right to a guaranteed minimum wage and holiday pay, in a major blow to the gig economy company. The court upheld the previous Employment Tribunal and Employment Appeal Tribunal rulings that Uber had unla

The A&L Goodbody (ALG) staff choir raised over €11,000 for homelessness charity Depaul at their annual Christmas concert in St Patrick's Cathedral.

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.