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A judicial review claiming that Ireland is set to fall short of its legally-binding climate targets has been launched by Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE) with support from Community Law & Mediation's Centre for Environmental Justice. The environmental group claims that the government has f

The use of speed detection cameras operating on Irish roads is to increase by 20 per cent following the allocation of an additional €1.2 million in funding. The extra €1.2m for GoSafe, which provides and operates safety cameras in Ireland, follows an agreement between justice minister Hele

A hotel investigating the theft of 50 koi carp worth around £100,000 (€170,000) was surprised to identify an unexpected suspect: an otter. The Grosvenor Pulford Hotel, near the English city of Chester, installed CCTV cameras after the disappearance of the expensive fish, the BBC reports.

A German court has rejected the extradition of an Albanian man to the UK over concerns about British prison conditions — in the second judgment of its kind this year. In June, an Irish court made the same decision when it declined to extradite an individual to Scotland, citing concerns that he

Award-winning journalist Sally Hayden has joined UCD Sutherland School of Law as an adjunct professor. Ms Hayden has reported extensively on issues related to migration, conflict, human rights and humanitarian crises for many of the world's leading news publishers.

A lawyer representing a woman who was named on a poster as having links to the PSNI has called on the force to make a public statement confirming that she is not a police officer. Michael Madden, of Madden & Finucane Solicitors, is representing the woman, whose details were included on a poster

A packed event at the Royal Irish Academy on Friday recognised and celebrated Professor Caroline Fennell, professor emerita of law at University College Cork (UCC).

Amnesty International has made a last-ditch appeal for MPs to reject the UK government's controversial legacy plans ahead of the bill's return to Westminster this week.

Draft legislation providing for a cap on the market revenues of certain electricity producers, expected to net between €80 million and €150 million for the State, has been published. The Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Cap on Market Revenues) Bill forms part of the government

Working in partnership with Ukraine’s Constitutional Court, the University of Birmingham and Ivan Franko National University, Lviv (IFNUL) have defined the first 1,000 terms in a unique handbook for scientists, human rights defenders, and legal experts further developing the country as a const

The head of a real estate agency which claimed to have sold a flat to a dog has been arrested in Iran. The arrest came after the agency published a video showing a couple signing over their home to a small white dog named Chester, The Jerusalem Post reports.

New requirements for applications to the Personal Injuries Assessment Board (PIAB) have come into effect as of today. Claimants are now required to provide their Personal Public Service Number (PPSN) or another form of ID, and to sign their application forms.

Trinity College Dublin School of Law has welcomed Dr Brian Barry as an associate professor and Dr Róisín Costello as an assistant professor. Both took up their new full-time teaching positions in the university with effect from Friday 1 September 2023.

Case processing times in Northern Ireland's Crown Court have increased, with the average time for a charge case increasing by five per cent to 561 days and the average time for a summons case increasing by 12 per cent to 1,150 days. The Department of Justice this week published its latest research a

An Garda Síochána sent delegations to Switzerland and France to help develop its approach to policing Ireland's first medically supervised injection facility (MSIF) for drug users. Injection facilities, also called drug consumption rooms or safe injection sites, have been implemented a