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Fourteen fresh cases involving women who have been affected by a controversy in which they received false negative smear tests have been lodged at the High Court over the past month, The Irish Times reports. Most cases allege that quicker detections or warnings of cancer could have resulted in earli

A barber in Dublin has been ordered to pay €5,000 to a transgender man after refusing to cut his hair, thejournal.ie reports. Lee McLoughlin said he was "absolutely thrilled" following the ruling of the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC).

An inquiry into alleged regulatory breaches at Quinn Insurance Limited (QIL) is to be conducted by retired High Court judge Iarfhlaith O’Neill, barrister Ita Mangan and John Cashin, former in-house lawyer at Zurich Insurance, the Irish Independent reports. The inquiry into QIL, which went into

The company that produces Kerrygold butter is facing a class-action lawsuit in the US amid claims that the milk in its butter is “falsely” advertised as coming from cows fed on grass. Dyami Myers-Taylor has submitted the claim in the district court of southern California, accusing Ornua

In a decision that will have implications for clients and contractors alike, the UK Supreme Court has upheld a contract term that required all changes to the contract to be set out in writing and signed on behalf of both parties. This meant that the parties were unable to agree to change the terms o

Doctors in the UK will be able to legally prescribe cannabis-derived medicinal products, though legislative amendments will be required in Northern Ireland before the change can be enforced. The Home Secretary Sajid Javid has said that products that meet the safety and quality standards are to be ma

New Zealand has passed legislation giving domestic violence victims 10 days' paid leave to allow them to find a new home and leave their partners, The Guardian reports. The bill passed on Wednesday night by 63 votes to 57 and is the result of seven years of work by Jan Logie, a Green MP who pre

A family from Paisley has secured damages of £247,000 after losing their mother to the asbestos disease mesothelioma. This is the first time in Scotland in which a case has been successfully pursued on behalf of someone who suffered from secondary exposure to asbestos from their spouse’s

In the State (Nicolaou) v An Bord Uchtála, the Supreme Court heard the case of an unmarried father who sought an order of certiorari to quash an adoption order made by An Bord Uchtála. Mr Nicolaou, a Cypriot national living in London, had been in a relationship with Ms Donnelly and the

A man has complained that drunks keep attempting to have sex with his hedge. Topiarist Keith Tyssen, 84, has been carefully fashioning his privet hedge into the shape of a Greek goddess for more than three decades at his home in Sheffield.

A rural development partnership in Connemara, which was unsuccessful in its bid for a €1.2 million public contract, has had its appeal dismissed in the Court of Appeal. Finding that there was no legal basis to interfere with the High Court judge’s decision to refuse the application for ju

The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that the High Court was justified in delaying the extradition to Poland of a man suspected of drug trafficking because of concerns about political interference with the Polish judiciary.