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The Public Interest Law Alliance (PILA) has announced the appointment of Emily Cunningham as its new legal officer. Ms Cunningham will work closely with new and existing NGOs, community groups and independent law centres to identify areas of unmet legal need, as well as collaborating with the legal

The Irish courts remained extremely busy in 2021, with over 531,000 new cases and over 405,000 cases resolved, according to the latest Courts Service annual report. "Adaptation and innovation are two words which might best describe our efforts in 2021, as we dealt with the ongoing effects of a world

Broadcast news channels will air judges’ sentencing remarks from the Crown Court in England and Wales for the first time today, following a change in the law. It will allow the public to see and hear judges explain the reasoning behind their sentences, giving a better understanding of how the

Dublin firm KOD Lyons Solicitors has announced the promotion of Eoghan O'Sullivan to associate. Mr O'Sullivan has practised as part of the human rights firm's criminal defence, juvenile justice and child care law departments since 2017.

Anti-abortion protests will be banned from taking place within 100 metres of healthcare providers under new legislation designed to safeguard access to abortion services. The general scheme of the proposed legislation on "safe access zones" will be published by the Department of Health in the coming

Helen Dixon will be appointed as chairperson of an expanded Data Protection Commission (DPC) under new government plans. Ms Dixon, currently the sole commissioner, will be joined by two additional commissioners following a recruitment process which is expected to take around six months.

Lawyers must brace themselves for the advent of online courts where civil disputes are resolved "from desk to desk" without a traditional hearing in which all parties are simultaneously present, a Supreme Court judge has said. Addressing a packed room at the launch of the Corporate and Insolvency Ba

Fake violinists using pre-recorded music to solicit donations on the street have become a "nationwide problem", US police have said. Police forces in Maryland, Connecticut and Michigan are among those which have warned the public to be aware of "scam violin players".

Ireland's former chief justice Frank Clarke and former High Court president Peter Kelly have been sworn in as judges of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Courts. The virtual swearing-in ceremony was held in the presence of Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, deputy ruler

New reforms to the law on consent, knowledge and belief in rape trials will require that an accused's defence that he believed the complainant was consenting has to be objectively reasonable. The Criminal Justice (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2022 will amend the fault or mental elemen

Wikipedia is influencing the decision-making of Irish judges, according to ground-breaking new research carried out by academics in the US and Ireland.

Individuals and businesses in England and Wales would be helped to resolve legal disputes through free mediation under new UK government proposals. Ministers have published a blueprint for major reforms to the civil justice system which seeks to save people the cost, time and stress of lengthy court

An Egyptian court has called for a man who murdered a woman for rejecting him to be hanged on live TV. Mohamed Adel, 21, stabbed Nayera Ashraf to death outside Mansoura University in northern Egypt in June.

Average partner pay at Macfarlanes has increased by more than 19 per cent over the past year and now stands at an average of nearly £2.5 million. The firm's revenue in 2020-21 rose by 16.4 per cent to £303.7 million, The Times reports. Profits reached £164.2m, up 15.4 per cent on t

UK, US and Irish newspapers have published obituaries of Lord Trimble, the former law lecturer, barrister, first minister and Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) leader who died on Monday at the age of 77. "It had been that violence [of the early Troubles], beginning with internment in August 1971, that had