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A civil society group has been refused permission to join High Court proceedings in which an Irish judge has asked the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) to rule on whether mutual trust continues to exist between Poland and other member states in EU extradition cases. Fair Trial Europe, a

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Social media giant Facebook resisted attempts by the Data Protection Commissioner to clamp down on the data collection practices now central to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Facebook was told in 2011 and 2012 that allowing apps to collect and process friends' profile data and likes could not be j

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There were 514 applications to the Solicitors Regulation Authority to open new law firms in 2017, underlining the health of the legal profession despite Brexit related uncertainty, according to accountants and business advisers Hazlewoods, which specialises in the legal profession. With 10,400 solic

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A woman who had a swab left in situ after giving birth in Cavan General Hospital has been awarded €40,160 in the High Court. The woman alleged to have suffered physical and psychiatric injuries as a result of the hospital’s mistake, which caused her to be unwell at a time when her new-born son w

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Ministers want better figures on revenge porn cases to find out why so many complainants withdraw after reporting offences, the Solicitor General Robert Buckland QC has said. He was responding to points raised by his Labour counterpart, Nick Thomas-Symonds in the Commons, The Brief reports.

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