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A new €22 million courts complex for Tralee will be built on the site of the former Denny bacon factory after Kerry councillors agreed to sell the land to the Courts Service for €160,000. Kerry County Council yesterday voted by 28-4 with one abstention in favour of the proposal to sell aro

Adnan Syed, whose imprisonment for the 1999 murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee was the focus of the record-breaking podcast Serial, has been freed from prison after his conviction was vacated. A judge in Baltimore, Maryland highlighted issues in the disclosure of exculpatory evidence to Mr Syed

Judge Síofra O’Leary, the Irish judge on the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), has been elected as the president of the court for a two-year term. She is the first woman and the first Irish person to serve as president of the court in its 63-year history, and will take up office o

A town in the Netherlands has launched legal proceedings against Twitter after false claims of a local paedophile network were circulated online. Bodegraven-Reeuwijk, a municipality in the west of the country with a population of around 34,000, has been at the centre of absurd conspiracy theories al

A police investigation into the theft of a solid gold toilet worth £4.8 million (€5.5 million) has reached a dead end. The odd artwork was stolen from Blenheim Palace two days after it went on display at the Duke of Marlborough's country home.

Chief Justice Donal O'Donnell will host a public conference next month to mark a visit of the president and members of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The European judges are coming to Dublin for a judicial programme while Ireland holds the presidency of the Council of Europe committee o

Lawyers should be "ethically obliged" to advise clients of serious risks if they pursue projects inconsistent with the 1.5˚C global warming target, a group of lawyers and climate campaigners have said. An open letter signed by more than 170 members of the legal profession, principally in England, w

Pinsent Masons partner Neil Keenan has been appointed to the Company Law Review Group (CLRG). Following his appointment by Leo Varadkar, the Tánaiste and minster for enterprise, trade and employment, Mr Keenan will serve as the Law Society of Ireland's representative on the group for a f

Third-party funding of international arbitration will be legalised in Ireland through an amendment to legislation currently before the Oireachtas, the Department of Justice has said. The restriction on third-party funding will be removed through a government amendment to the Courts and Civil Law (Mi

Hungary is set to lose billions of euros of EU funding in connection with breaches of the principles of the rule of law under proposals from the European Commission. Around €7.5 billion could be withheld pending Hungary's implementation of remedial measures agreed after months of talks between

A free concise guide to arbitration in Dublin has been published by Arbitration Ireland. A Concise Guide to Arbitration in Dublin provides the essentials for anyone participating in an arbitration in Dublin, from the basis of the arbitration agreement, the appointment of arbitrators, to the making,

Russia has officially ceased to be a party to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). In a statement, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) said Russia formally ceased to be a party to the ECHR on Friday 16 September 2022 following its expulsion from the Council of Europe in March.

Judicial conduct and ethics guidelines adopted by the Judicial Council in February will come into force within weeks, according to reports. A spokesperson for justice minister Helen McEntee told The Irish Times that it is "envisaged" that an order bringing the relevant sections of the Judicial Act 2

Martin Browne has been appointed as partner and head of the Irish office of HF, legal advisers to the insurance and commercial sectors. Mr Browne, a former partner with Beale & Co, will help expand HF Ireland and support its ambitions to carry out cross-border litigation and defend claims anywhe

Matheson LLP has been named Ireland's tax firm of the year for the third consecutive year at the International Tax Review (ITR) EMEA Tax Awards 2022. The firm was chosen from a shortlist of the country’s largest legal and accounting firms following a comprehensive client and peer research pro