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Martha Spurrier, director of Liberty Liberty is launching a legal challenge to the UK's Investigatory Powers Act – legislation that allows the state to monitor everybody’s web history and email, text and phone records, and hack computers, phones and tablets on an industrial scale.

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A man indicted in Florida for first degree murder and attempted robbery with a firearm whom the US authorities have been seeking to extradite since 2003 has made a second, article 3, application to the European Court of Human Rights complaining that a first-degree murder conviction in the US carries

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A restaurant has been unsuccessful in its bid to overturn determinations of the Rights Commissioner and the Employment Appeals Tribunal, which had awarded a former employee €26,000 for breaches of the Unfair Dismissals Acts 1977-1993. Dismissing the application for Judicial Review in the High Cour

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Fíona Ní Chinnéide The number of Irish prisoners who have been hospitalised as a result of assaults, self-harm and drug incidents - particularly at Mountjoy Prison - is "shocking", the Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) has said.

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Emily Logan, IHREC's chief commissioner The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) can appear as an amicus curiae in four cases involving conditions at Oberstown Detention Centre, the Court of Appeal has ruled.

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A judge who responded in kind to a defendant who called her a c*** has been cleared of misconduct. As he was being sentenced at Chelmsford Crown Court for his ninth breach of an anti-social behaviour order in 11 years, John Hennigan, 50, directed the offensive term towards Judge Patricia Lynch QC.

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A man on trial in Belfast for allegedly procuring drugs intended to cause an abortion has seen his trial adjourned, prompting protests from his solicitor. BBC News reports that the man's trial at Belfast Magistrates' Court has been adjourned to Monday 23 January following an application from the pro

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