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White House security yesterday swooped on an unexpected intruder — a toddler who had squeezed through its metal gates. The child has achieved the honour of becoming the first White House intruder since security was beefed up in 2019, NPR reports.

Fox News has reached a $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems, a company at the centre of conspiracy theories about the 2020 US presidential election, in what is believed to be the largest-ever defamation settlement involving a US media company. Dominion had sought $1.6 billion in da

A new research project is to examine legal failings associated with the Post Office scandal in a bid to prevent similar injustices occurring in the future. The landmark study, led by researchers at the University of Exeter and UCL, comes as a statutory judicial inquiry into the scandal continues.

Our regular round-up of deals involving Northern Ireland law firms. Submit your deals to newsdesk@irishlegal.com. Belfast-based cancer diagnostics company GenoME Diagnostics has closed a £1.4 million funding round which will be used to further develop its lead product OvaME, a novel blood test

US-headquartered Haynes and Boone LLP has appointed 11 lawyers based in London and Belfast to its investment management practice. Ronan McCann, a graduate of Queen's University Belfast who trained as a solicitor in Belfast and now lives in London, is one of three new partners, along with Karma Samdu

A newly-qualified solicitor from Derry has completed a one-week internship with a Serbian law firm as part of an international initiative organised by AVRIO Advocati. Enya Hood, a solicitor with Caldwell & Robinson Solicitors, recently spent a week with Živković Samardžić in Belgrade.

High Court judges have welcomed new research, co-authored by Mr Justice Richard Humphreys, contradicting an earlier study which suggested that Wikipedia influences judicial decision-making in Ireland. In a paper published last summer, researchers in the US and Ireland said the creation of a Wikipedi

Dublin-based lawyer Alejandro Llosa has been appointed to the board of the Project Arts Centre. A qualified lawyer with more than 17 years' experience, Mr Llosa began his career working for top-tier law firms in Buenos Aires, Argentina, focused on corporate law and M&A.

Civil liberties campaigners have welcomed an intervention by the Oireachtas justice committee against a proposed EU law which would mandate the monitoring of virtually all public and private digital communications. The ‘ChatControl’ law would oblige service providers to either break end-

A team of trainee solicitors representing the Law Society of Ireland have taken second place in the Stetson International Environmental Moot Court Competition. The team of Sophie Quinlan, Ruby Barlow and Emma Kennedy travelled to Stetson Law in Gulfport, Florida for the competition which took place

A military reservist has been arrested after allegedly applying to be a hitman on a spoof website called "rentahitman.com". Josiah Ernesto Garcia, 21, a US Air National Guardsman, faces up to 10 years' imprisonment after being charged with the use of interstate facilities in the commission of murder

Company directors will soon be required to provide their Personal Public Service (PPS) numbers in order to file certain documents with the Companies Registration Office (CRO). The requirement will come into effect from 23 April 2023 with the commencement of section 35 of the Companies (Corporate Enf

A new sectoral employment order (SEO) for the construction sector will come into force in September. The government has accepted the Labour Court's recommendation for new minimum pay and pension contribution rates for workers in the construction sector.

Irish tax authorities may be forced to stop publishing a quarterly list of tax defaulters following a recent European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judgment, according to reports. The government is examining the implications of the court's ruling in L.B. v Hungary, no. 36345/16 on 9 March 2023, in w

Taxi drivers are set to take legal action after delegates at a Belfast conference were told to avoid black cabs "because they are run by the IRA". The claim was made in a security document sent to delegates attending the 2023 CYBERUK conference organised by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC),