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Anti-abortion protesters could be fined or jailed for harassing women outside hospitals and clinics, under a proposed law, The Times reports. Paul Gavan, the Sinn Féin senator, introduced the safe access zones bill in the Seanad yesterday. It would mandate a 100m buffer zone around relevant p

Legislation permitting the use of e-scooters and electric bikes on Irish roads has been published by the Government. Transport Minister Eamon Ryan published the Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021 yesterday, which provides for a new class of powered personal transporters (PPTs).

Kanye West has legally changed his name to Ye following the approval of a Los Angeles court. He made the request in August, citing personal reasons for the decision.

Scotland's three principal bar associations have voted to opt out of a duty solicitor scheme less than two weeks before the most important conference in the world due to continued mistreatment of defence lawyers, our sister publication Scottish Legal News reports.

An elderly man has succeeded in challenging the procedural fairness of a hearing in which he was subjected to an experience reminiscent of Franz Kafka's The Trial, his lawyer said. In 2019, Dr Denis Paling appeared at Ipswich Magistrates Court in a case concerning unpaid council tax relating to a le

Landmark gambling laws to come before the Cabinet today will ban free bets as a new regulator comes into place next year. The regulator will be given powers to remove or suspend gambling licences and will be able to freeze accounts as well as block incoming payments to providers, The Irish Times rep

The Court of Appeal has ruled that Aer Arann must pay more than €3.2 million to the State arising from a finding of unlawful State aid. The EU Commission had previously determined that an air travel tax imposed by the State conferred a competitive advantage to Aer Arann in contravention of Art

Holmes O’Malley Sexton LLP has announced the promotion of two lawyers to its partnership. Rachael O'Shaughnessy and Sean Fitzgerald have been promoted as partners to HOMS Assist, part of Holmes O’Malley Sexton LLP.

Reports of domestic abuse have doubled in the past five years, the Garda’s annual policing report shows. There were 7,600 charges brought last year over domestic abuse, an increase of 24 per cent on the 2019 figure.

On Saturday 6 November, the third annual conference of the Irish Supreme Court Review will take place online, hosted by the School of Law Trinity College Dublin and supported by Pinsent Masons. The speakers are:

A new phone line has been set up for gardaí to report corruption by other members of the force, The Irish Times reports. The phone line is one of a package of measures introduced by the new Garda Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) to deal with misconduct and criminality.

The Law Society of Ireland has issued a warning that "Hamilton Douglas Legal" is not a regulated firm of solicitors in Ireland. A page on the company's website states: "We have one of the largest panel of solicitors, covering the whole of Ireland, and ready to assist you in making a No Win No Fee cl

UK law firms' fees and profits are exceeding expectations this year, a report from PwC shows. Its 30th Law Firms’ Survey showed that just under three-quarters of firms reported an increase in fee income with 76 per cent seeing profit increases. The findings are consonant with the figures from

A freezer containing 235 dormice to be eaten by the Mafia was discovered by police at a farm in Italy. The discovery at the site in Delianuova in Calabria, home to the ‘Ndrangheta mafia, was made by officers as they seized 730 illegal marijuana plants.

The heads of the Bar and the Law Society should be considered for inclusion in the membership of the proposed new Judicial Appointments Commission, the Oireachtas justice committee has recommended. The joint committee on justice has completed pre-legislative scrutiny of the general scheme of the Jud