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The UK Supreme Court has referred the question of whether a Directive on equal gender treatment as regards social security precludes the imposition in national law of a requirement that, in addition to satisfying the physical, social and psychological criteria for recognising a change of gender, a p

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Lawyers across Pakistan went on strike yesterday in protest at at a bomb blast reported to have been aimed at the profession. On Monday a suicide bomb blast killed 67 people and injured a further 100 at a hospital in Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan. The blast is reported to have delibe

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A limited company, the Irish Skydiving Club Ltd (hereafter ISC) sought judicial review of the decision of An Bord Pleanála that the use by the ISC of Kilkenny Airfield for sponsored parachute jumping was a development and not an exempted development. Judgment was given in the trial of a modular iss

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A High Court judge has called on the State to make "huge efforts" to prevent "bogus marriages", The Irish Times reports. Mr Justice Richard Humphreys made the remarks while delivering a reserved judgment in the case of a 45-year-old Algerian man, who contested his deportation order on the basis of h

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There was a 95 per cent conviction rate in Ireland's Circuit Courts in 2014, the Irish Examiner reports. A total of 2,159 cases were finalised before the Circuit Courts in 2014, with a 100 per cent conviction rate in Monaghan, Donegal, Galway, and Leitrim.

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An Garda Síochána is implementing "heightened security measures" in the wake of a cyber-attack on its computer systems. A new strain of malware had been discovered on Garda systems last week, but "no data was compromised" as a result of the attack.

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Fifteen solicitor firms received more than €200,000 from the Director of Public Prosecutions last year, the Irish Examiner reports. Figures released by the DPP's office show that 32 solicitors, all based outside Dublin, earned €6.24 million in fees in 2015 - including personal allowance to State

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