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Dr Julian Lewis A parliamentary debate on introducing a statute of limitations to protect soldiers and other security personnel from prosecution for wrongdoing during the Troubles in Northern Ireland has provoked a backlash from human rights organisations.

A legal challenge to the Police Ombudsman's report on collusion in the 1994 Loughinisland massacre will be reheard before a new judge. Mr Justice McCloskey was due to make a ruling on remedy and costs today following his finding last year that the Ombudsman's 2016 report was unlawful and procedurall

Claire Edgar of Francis Hanna & Co Solicitors will today address the Belfast and Lisburn Women's Aid annual conference. This year's conference is focused on domestic abuse and will celebrate the organisation's work over the last year as well as outlining its plans and ambitions for the year ahea

O'Flynn Exhams Solicitors yesterday welcomed over 140 people to a breakfast seminar on the upcoming EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), hosted in conjunction with Willis Towers Watson.

The Independent Commission on the Location of Victims' Remains yesterday updated the Oireachtas committee on the Good Friday Agreement on its work. Commissioners Frank Murray and Sir Kenneth Bloomfield and senior investigator Geoff Knupfer appeared before the committee to outline progress in recover

Ibrahim Halawa and Darragh Mackin Freed prisoner Ibrahim Halawa and his solicitor, Darragh Mackin of KRW Law, stressed the importance of human rights at an event at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) this week.

The Court of Appeal has upheld a determination that a 20-second sit-down protest on a public road, which obstructed the Israeli Ambassador and his driver, was without lawful authority or reasonable excuse. Stephen Bennett, 45, was convicted and given a suspended sentence in the District Court for pr

The DPP has had its application to review the sentence given to a burglar with 103 convictions dismissed in the Court of Appeal. Delivering the judgment of the three-judge Court, Mr Justice Edwards was satisfied that the sentencing judge had not been unduly lenient in giving the man a sentence of th

Lawyers benefited from an uptick in the Irish economy last year, with across-the-board improvements in salary and conditions. According to ASSIGN Legal Recruitment, the market in 2017 was defined by "Improved remuneration and conditions for in-house counsel and top-tier and mid-tier practice lawyers

Northern Ireland lawyers have told the Law Society Gazette in England and Wales that attacks on lawyers by mainstream newspapers and politicians have led to them facing harassment and death threats. It follows the New York Bar writing to Prime Minister Theresa May and then Northern Ireland Secretary

Ireland is not meeting its international legal obligations under the European Social Charter, the European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR) has found. The committee yesterday published its annual conclusions for 2017 in respect of 33 states, including Ireland and the UK.

The Law Society of Ireland's Younger Members Committee will focus this year on promoting and enhancing diversity within the profession.

Austrian privacy campaigner Max Schrems can bring an individual action in Austria against Facebook Ireland, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled. However, he cannot bring proceedings on behalf of seven other users in Austria, Germany and India who assigned him their claims for

John O'Connor A technology partner at William Fry has been named co-chair of the International Association of Privacy Professionals' (IAPP) Irish KnowledgeNet chapter.

UK statutory sick pay as well as government help for jobless and self-employed people breach international obligations, a European committee has ruled. The European Committee of Social Rights, a monitoring body of the Council of Europe, described the money available to people claiming statutory sick