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The PSNI and the Metropolitan Police unlawfully spied on investigative journalists Barry McCaffrey and Trevor Birney, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) ruled today.

Reader Johnnie McCoy BL has shared with Irish Legal News a picture of the Christmas tree erected in The Bar of Ireland's legal research centre.

The Law Society of Ireland has presented a cheque worth €325,000 to its Calcutta Run charity partners, The Hope Foundation and Dublin Simon Community. Both charity partners received €160,000, with a further €5,000 being donated to the Southern Bar Law Association for its charity partn

Martina Moran has been elected as president of the Galway Solicitors Bar Association (GSBA) for 2025. A solicitor with Co Galway firm Gearoid Geraghty & Co, she succeeds RDJ senior associate Stephanie Coughlan, who remains on the committee as secretary.

Facebook is "exposed to terrorist content" and must take action to address this, Coimisiún na Meán has determined. The regulator's decision under the EU Terrorist Content Online Regulation follows a similar finding in respect of TikTok, X and Instagram in November 2024.

Hundreds of offences committed by Star Trek fans have been erroneously blamed on one woman for years, her lawyer has said. New York woman Beda Koorey has experienced legal trouble for more than four years because of a state-issued license plate which reads NCC 1701.

Asylum seekers were unlawfully detained on Diego Garcia, the largest of the Chagos Islands controversially retained by the UK after Mauritius became independent in the 1960s, a judge has ruled. The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) Supreme Court yesterday found that dozens of Sri Lankan Tamils w

As many as 1,360 children have never been reunited with their parents six years after they were forcibly separated at the US border, according to a new report. The 135-page report from Human Rights Watch, the Texas Civil Rights Project (TCRP), and the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at

The incoming government has been urged to have the "political courage" to tackle prison overcrowding after new figures showed an increase in people committed on short sentences. The Irish Prison Service (IPS) published its 2023 annual report on Friday, showing the daily average number of prisoners i

Amnesty International NI has now published a video recording of Francesca Albanese delivering the human rights group's annual lecture earlier this month. Ms Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, was invited to speak about the findings of her lates

Northern Ireland's High Court has rejected an application for judicial review of the Muckamore Abbey Hospital Inquiry's decision not to call any former health ministers to give evidence. Mr Justice Humphreys ruled on Friday that the decision was procedurally fair, adding that it was not the role of

Legal academic and trainee solicitor Dr Dáire McCormack-George has been charged with the murder of his father. Dr McCormack-George, 29, was arrested by gardaí after his father, Professor Scott George, 76, was found stabbed to death on Thursday night.

Solicitors, barristers and judges in the Pro Bono Choir have raised cash for two vital Northern Ireland charities at a sold-out Christmas carol concert.

Lawyers in England and Wales are refusing certain cases because they lose money on them due to legal aid rules. Richard Atkinson, president of the Law Society of England and Wales, said members were turning away people charged with certain crimes including burglary.

More than 90 per cent of stalking convictions in Northern Ireland were achieved less than a year after the defendants were reported to police, according to new figures. Stalking became a standalone offence under the Protection from Stalking Act (NI) 2022, which came into force in April 2022.