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There has been "significant progress" in the proposed settlement over claims of historical abuse at Celtic Boys Club. A judge allowed a group claim to proceed against Celtic last year over alleged abuse at Celtic Boys Club, which was established as a feeder to the senior side in 1966, Scottish Legal

Switzerland is failing to meet its human rights obligations by not taking sufficient action to tackle climate change, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled in a landmark case. The Strasbourg court today handed down judgments in three landmark cases, which represented the first climate

A man who allegedly rubbed his bare buttocks on a public water fountain has been charged with property damage. Police found an incriminating photo after arresting the 56-year-old Tokyo man in connection with a separate incident of public indecency.

Cork barristers have raised over €7,000 for charity in memory of Jane Anne Rothwell BL and all their colleagues lost to cancer. The Cork Bar Daffodil Day fundraiser in the Washington Street courthouse on 19 March 2024 raised a total of €7,278 for the Irish Cancer Society.

Belfast firm KRW LAW LLP has promoted Róise Fitzpatrick and Setanta Marley to partner. Mr Marley, a specialist Troubles-related litigator, will head up the firm's specialist conflict litigation department, while Ms Fitzpatrick, a criminal defence practitioner, will lead the firm's summary cri

Fieldfisher Ireland LLP has appointed Jonathan Moore and Johan Verbruggen as partners, bringing its total partner count to 15. Mr Moore joins the firm's planning and environmental practice, while Mr Verbruggen will head up its medical negligence team.

Planned increases to workers' annual entitlement to paid sick leave could be postponed by the government, according to reports. The Sick Leave Act 2022 introduced a statutory right to paid sick leave for the first time and was meant to be phased in from 2023 to 2026.

A public consultation is seeking views on the introduction of geographical indication protection for craft and industrial products. An EU regulation which entered into force in November 2023 requires member states to put in place a legal framework for geographical indication (GI) protection for craf

The Law Society of Northern Ireland has launched a new initiative aimed at supporting the mental health and wellbeing of members of the legal profession and their support staff.

Junior minister Dara Calleary will speak in Frankfurt next month at an Ireland for Law event promoting Ireland as a European regulatory centre of excellence. Mr Calleary, the minister of state for trade promotion, digital and company regulation, will speak at the event on Tuesday 7 May, which remain

Irish personal injury lawyer John Connellan has joined Australian law firm Travis Schultz & Partners (TSP) in Brisbane. Mr Connellan brings over a decade of international experience from Ireland, where he worked in plaintiff litigation, specialising in high-value personal injury cases, including

Taylor Wessing Ireland has appointed Patricia McCarvill as the firm's first dedicated tax partner. Ms McCarvill, who previously co-founded the tax practice at Simmons & Simmons' Dublin office, joins the firm from 15 April 2024 and will establish its new tax practice.

Professor Caroline Fennell, professor emerita of law at University College Cork, has been appointed as chairperson of Cuan. The new statutory agency tasked with tackling domestic, sexual and gender-based violence was formally opened in February 2024.

A legal row has broken out between Italy and a German toy company over a jigsaw puzzle bearing the image of ­Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man. The original drawing is housed in the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice. Reproductions on merchandise are popular and the drawing was used a

Music must be no slower than Hotel California and no faster than Radio Ga Ga, a new law in Russia's Chechnya region dictates. The Russian republic's culture ministry has declared that "all musical, vocal and choreographic works should correspond to a tempo of 80 to 116 beats per minute", The Moscow