The High Court in Belfast has refused an application by the Chief Constable of the PSNI to stay proceedings brought by a solicitor as an abuse of process on the basis that there has been “no real and substantial tort”. The relevant proceedings brought by the solicitor were in relation to a comme
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Marco Hickey, head of the EU, competition and regulated markets team at LK Shields An Irish appeal against the European Commission's €13 billion Apple tax ruling could last six years, according to commercial firm LK Shields.
The late Mr Justice Adrian Hardiman of the Supreme Court threatened to resign if the 2011 referendum on allowing reductions in judicial salaries went ahead, a new book reveals. Mr Justice Hardiman's dramatic move was intended to put pressure on Government ministers who wanted to remove the Constitut
Two legal challenges to Brexit are set to go before the senior judicial review judge at the High Court in Belfast on Monday. Raymond McCord, a prominent victims' rights campaigner whose son was killed by loyalist paramilitaries in 1997, lodged his application for judicial review last month. He has b
Lord Chief Justice, Sir Declan Morgan The office of the Lord Chief Justice, Sir Declan Morgan, joins Twitter on Monday.
Lawyers and security experts yesterday addressed more than 50 IT professionals on the upcoming EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) at a seminar in Dublin.
The Department of Justice has provided compensation to three women who were caught up as schoolchildren in the Holy Cross dispute in north Belfast in 2001, the Belfast Telegraph reports. Catholic primary school children at Holy Cross Girls' School faced weeks of loyalist protests on their way to sch
The UK Supreme Court has published a quartet of lectures delivered by Lord Neuberger (pictured) in Singapore. The first, delivered at the National University of Singapore, is entitled "Has the identity of the English Common Law been eroded by EU Laws and the European Convention on Human Rights?"
The High Court has refused to remit a summary judgment of more than €6 million to plenary hearing, because the secretary of the company against which the judgment was made could not prove Allied Irish Bank (AIB) had been negligent in failing to provide him with independent legal advice when he sig
Finance Minister Michael Noonan Finance Minister Michael Noonan yesterday failed to persuade his Cabinet colleagues to back an appeal aimed at overturning the European Commission's €13 billion tax ruling against Ireland and Apple.
Revised proposals to establish a common system for calculating the tax base of businesses operating in the EU are expected to be brought forward by the European Commission in November. The Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB) was first proposed in 2011, and the Commission announced in June
David Mulholland The Bar of Northern Ireland has taken up a 4,000 sq ft space in Belfast City Centre to provide the base for Northern Ireland's first specialist mediation centre.
A campaign group has raised concerns over the possible political vetting of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to the Northern Ireland Executive, The Irish News reports. The Campaign for Freedom of Information said some departments only release responses to FOI requests after approval by minister
Health Minister Michelle O'Neill Northern Ireland's lifetime ban on the donation of blood by men who have had sex with men (MSM) has officially been lifted today.
Committee chair Maria Miller The UK House of Commons’ Women and Equalities Committee has called for women in the UK to have protections similar to those in Germany after a “shocking” increase in workplace pregnancy discrimination over the past decade.