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Politicians and legal academics have signed an open letter opposing government plans to expand prisons and calling for evidence-based alternatives. Senator Lynn Ruane, Labour leader Ivana Bacik and the Social Democrats' Garry Gannon are among signatories to the letter, which was featured in The Iris

Five-year-olds will be taught about "the evils of communism" under a new law enacted in Florida. Republican Governor Ron DeSantis appeared with a sign reading "ANTI-COMMUNIST EDUCATION" as he signed the bill requiring the topic to be taught at all school grades from kindergarten onwards, USA Today r

A report on PSNI surveillance has found up to 18 incidents that involve lawyers and journalists, The Irish News reports. The report was presented to members of the Policing Board last week – six months after it was first requested.

University of Galway School of Law, Ireland, and Symbiosis Law School of Pune, India, have renewed their existing partnership at a signing ceremony held at Symbiosis’s campus on 12th April 2024. Dean of University of Galway School of Law, Professor Martin Hogg, visited Symbiosis Law School for

The parliamentary fight over the UK government's Rwanda bill is to continue into next week after peers voted to demand changes to the bill.

Six out of ten school leaders say the complexities of legal compliance around data protection and privacy is their biggest challenge, a survey by Mason Hayes & Curran has found. The firm, which hosts Ireland’s largest dedicated education law team, polled more than 400 educators at its rece

DWF has been reappointed to BT Group's legal panel, marking another milestone in its partnership with the multinational telecommunications company. The legal panel will be in place for the next three years and is comprised of 11 firms - a reduction from the previous 15. DWF and the other 10 firms wi

NI solicitor Leona O’Neill MBE has been profiled by the Belfast Telegraph for her work fundraising for people with sarcoma, a rare form of soft tissue and bone cancer. She established The Boom Foundation in April 2013 after losing her fiancé Philip to sarcoma. He died six weeks before t

Specialist domestic abuse prosecutors could be introduced to help make Northern Ireland's new domestic abuse law more effective, a report has suggested. Jacqui Durkin, the chief inspector of criminal justice in Northern Ireland, yesterday published her review of how Part 1 of the Domestic Abuse and

A man who perpetrated a massive psychic mass-mailing fraud scheme which stole more than $175 million from over 1.3 million victims has been jailed for 10 years. Over two decades, Patrice Runner, 57, sent millions of letters purporting to be individualised, personal communications from well-known so-

Virtually no family lawyers support government proposals to reallocate most divorce, judicial separation, and co-habitation proceedings to the District Court, a new survey suggests. The Family Lawyers Association surveyed its 286 solicitor and barrister members ahead of a summit on the Family Courts

Children's rights campaigners have called for stricter regulation of social media algorithms to protect children from harmful online content. The Children's Rights Alliance wants Coimisiún na Meán and the Irish government to take urgent action in the wake of an RTÉ Prime Time in

Northern Ireland parents should no longer be able to avail of the "reasonable punishment" defence to justify physically punishing a child, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has said. A new report published by the charity, which represents children's doctors in the UK, calls f

A range of human rights experts including Professor Colin Harvey are set to address a Belfast conference organised by Sinn Féin's Commission on the Future of Ireland next month. The 'Rights in a New Ireland' conference will be chaired by Ailbhe Smyth, who played a key role in the marriage equ

McCann FitzGerald has secured three awards at the Managing IP EMEA Awards 2024 in London, including Practitioner of the Year for partner Fiona O’Beirne. Ms O'Beirne was recognised for her continued excellent work in the field of patent litigation and other intellectual property disputes. Her p