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The High Court granted an order of certiorari to quash planning permission for a petrol station in Belfast, ordering the applicant to pay one third of the legal costs on top of the £325,000 building costs incurred to date. The court was not swayed by the arguments of the notice party, who "has

Disabled voters can lawfully be required to enter polling places through a back entrance, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled. In a "disappointing" ruling yesterday, the court said polling places and election procedures in Europe need to be accessible for disabled people, but access

Philip Alston, the John Norton Pomeroy professor of law at NYU School of Law, argues that gender diversity on the International Court of Justice must be taken more seriously. In Is There a Special Practice?, Antonios Tzanakopoulos has written a very learned post seeking to dispel the notion that the

Addiction and support services should be made available to individuals in the proposed new family court system, the deputy director of the Child Care Law Reporting Project (CCLRP) has said. Maria Corbett told the annual social work conference at University College Cork (UCC) that reforms to the fami

Cleaver Fulton Rankin has become the first law firm in Northern Ireland to be awarded the ISO 22301:2019 Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) certification, demonstrating its commitment and best practice approach to business continuity. The ISO 22301 certification is the international standa

The government has formally approved a recommendation from the Labour Court for new minimum pay rates to workers in the construction sector. A number of trade unions applied to the Labour Court for a review of the terms and conditions of workers in the construction sector, in accordance with section

Our regular round-up of deals involving Irish law firms. Submit your deals to newsdesk@irishlegal.com. Arthur Cox has advised Ardstone Partners ICAV in relation to a €130 million green loan from Nuveen Real Estate.

Former Brexit secretary David Davis MP has pledged to lead a rebellion against the government’s proposed changes to judicial review, branding them an assault on the legal system. Before the first test of the Judicial Review and Courts Bill in the Commons today, Mr Davis wrote in an article for

A Spanish law governing the registration of births that gives the father's name immutable precedence over the mother's where there is a disagreement falls foul of the ECHR, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. The Article 14 case concerned the applicant’s request to reverse the order

Hippos introduced to Colombia by drug kingpin Pablo Escobar have been recognised in the US as people with legal rights as part of a bid to save their lives. A district court judge in Cincinnati approved a request from the American Legal Defence Fund (ALDF) to recognise the hippos as "interested pers

The Court of Appeal has upheld a conviction of a man who sexually abused his nephew between 1989 and 1991. In so ruling, the court rejected the submission that the non-availability of his deceased mother as a witness should have led to the withdrawal of the case from the jury. The court applied the

Plans to offer "automatic online convictions" to people charged with minor offences will lead to "trigger-happy justice", campaigners have said. The UK government's controversial Judicial Review and Courts Bill, which returns to the Commons floor today, will allow for people charged with minor offen

The Irish Prison Service (IPS) has withdrawn its appeal of a significant High Court judgment which found that the service must provide reasonable accommodation to disabled prison officers. The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission provided legal representation to Robert Cunningham in taking the

Future applicants for judicial office in Northern Ireland have been invited to help pilot a new online testing and assessment system. The Northern Ireland Judicial Appointments Commission (NIJAC) is exploring the utility of using online platforms for testing and assessment and also as a mitigation m

The Court of Appeal has increased a damages award for a man who had his constitutional right to earn a livelihood infringed by a trade union. The man had received €15,000 from the High Court in the quantum hearing. However, the Court of Appeal held that the trial judge had erred in a number of