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Irish technology companies raised a record €734 million in the first nine months of 2016, according to the Irish Venture Capital Association's (IVCA) VenturePulse survey published in association with William Fry. In the nine months to end September 2016, the total raised was 77 per cent ahead of t

A former barrister who suffered a brain injury after routine surgery has won a €7.1 million settlement in the High Court. Frank Cowan, who practised as a barrister until 2008, failed to initially regain consciousness after being given anaesthetic for a routine back procedure and successfully sued

Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly have called for the release of 20-year-old Irish citizen Ibrahim Halawa from detention in Egypt at a demonstration on the steps of Stormont. MLAs joined Mr Halawa’s sister Khadija Halawa and representatives of Amnesty International at the demonstration on T

The High Court has awarded a sum of €47,200 to a Dublin shop manager who was injured after slipping at work. Mr Justice Barr accepted evidence from medical experts that the injury had caused the woman to experience pain in her knee since the date of the accident in 2012, until this was relieved by

The Courts Service in Limerick has stopped publishing dates on which home repossession proceedings will be heard, The Irish Times reports. Applications for home repossessions were previously listed on the Courts Service website, with hearings held on the first Friday of every other month. Now, repos

The Department of Justice has launched a consultation on the statutory “age of digital consent” to be applied in Ireland as part of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Article 8 of the GDPR provides that, in the case of information society services offered directly to a child, pare

Justice Minister Claire Sugden The Northern Ireland Executive has backed plans to pardon gay and bisexual men convicted of abolished sexual offences.

Professor Siobhán Mullally Professor Siobhán Mullally has been re-elected to the Council of Europe's Group of Experts on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) for a second two-year term.

Lord Neuberger The UK Supreme Court has now received formal notification of the UK government’s intention to appeal the High Court’s decision of 3 November in the case of R (on the application of Miller & Dos Santos) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union.

Social housing sector tenants who challenged the so called “bedroom tax” have received a mixed outcome at the UK Supreme Court. Lord Neuberger, Lady Hale, Lord Mance, Lord Sumption, Lord Carnwath, Lord Hughes and Lord Toulson heard the cases, which relate to the cap on housing benefit introduced

Belfast's fifth annual Sports Law Conference, themed around Good Governance and Equality, has taken place in Law Society House.

EU law does not preclude an increase in the share capital of a bank without the agreement of the general meeting of the shareholders in a situation where there is a serious disturbance of the economy and the financial system of a member state, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ru

Lord Falconer of Thoroton QC A former Lord Chancellor has called on the incumbent to be replaced over her handling of the Brexit debacle.

A three-judge Court of Appeal has awarded a convicted rapist €17,225 after he sued the State for assault, negligence and breach of constitutional rights arising from an assault while he was a prisoner in Castlerea Prison. Overturning the finding of a High Court jury that had initially awarded the

A three-judge Court of Appeal has awarded a convicted rapist €17,225 after he sued the State for assault, negligence and breach of constitutional rights arising from an assault while he was a prisoner in Castlerea Prison. Overturning the finding of a High Court jury that had initially awarded the