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The High Court has dismissed an application to hold police responsible for dismantling a dangerous bonfire, finding that the threat of “widespread unrest” outweighed the effects of the anti-social and unlawful behaviour. The emergency application was brought by AB, who lives in the vicin

A judge who was caught playing cards during a remote court hearing in a case worth nearly €100,000 has apologised. Madam Justice Jolaine Antonio, a judge of the Alberta Court of Appeal in Canada, admitted in a letter that there was "no excuse for causing litigants and their counsel to feel unhe

A harrowing incident in which a baby died in Europe's largest women's prison, with the 18-year-old mother giving birth in her cell alone despite repeated calls for help, "should never have happened", a watchdog has said. The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) for England and Wales yesterday publi

The UK Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by a travel agent against a decision that it could not set aside a contractual agreement with an airline with a monopoly on flights between the UK and Pakistan for reasons of lawful act economic duress. Times Travel UK had originally brought a claim again

Cian Clinch, partner at Hayes solicitors LLP, discusses recent case law from the High Court which highlights that online anonymity is not absolute. The expectation of online anonymity has become so common in our increasingly digital society that individuals often feel immune to the legal consequence

International law firm Ashurst, which expanded into Ireland earlier this year, has announced new Inclusion, Diversity and Belonging (IDB) targets to be achieved by 2026. The new targets, set by the board in consultation with the executive team and the Committed to Change Advisory Group, comprise:

ByrneWallace LLP has announced the appointment of Martin Cooney as head of the firm's infrastructure, construction and energy (ICE) group. Mr Cooney has been a partner and head of the firm's construction law practice since joining ByrneWallace in November 2017.

A looming deadline to register rights of way with the Property Registration Authority (PRA) will be removed following pressure from the Law Society and the Bar Council. Ministers yesterday agreed to introduce a "short amending bill" to amend the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009 and repeal c

Supreme Court judge Ms Justice Marie Baker has joined UCC School of Law as an adjunct professor, alongside human rights expert Emily Logan and corporate lawyer John Gaffney.

Michael Jackson memorabilia seized from the vice president of Equatorial Guinea will be used to help pay for Covid-19 vaccines for the country, US authorities have said. Obiang Mangue was required to sell the memorabilia, as well as a $30 million California mansion and a Ferrari, as part of a 2014 s

The third and final volume of a legal academic's trilogy on the history of Irish political prisoners from 1848 to 2000 has been launched in Dublin.

A public consultation on Ireland's equality legislation has been extended for a further month. The consultation was launched in July as part of the government's review of the Equal Status Acts 2000-2018 and the Employment Equality Acts 1998-2015.

Lawyers will only receive legal aid payments for large volumes of disclosure where it has been sanctioned in advance under a new procedure put in place by the Department of Justice. The amount of evidence being disclosed in criminal cases has increased dramatically in recent years due to the growing

The Supreme Court has ruled that a prison was not liable in damages to an inmate who went on hunger strike following complaints about his living conditions. The inmate had been granted €5,000 in damages by the High Court after it was held that the prison had taken six weeks to make a decision o

The Russian state likely assassinated rogue spy Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled. In the case of Carter v Russia, the court held that there had been: unanimously, a failure by the Russian government to comply with their obligations under Ar