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Fast food giant McDonald's is facing a lawsuit from an Orthodox Christian who claims its advertising pushed her to break her month-long fast for Lent. Ksenia Ovchinnikova is demanding 1,000 rubles (around €11.60 EUR) in compensation for "moral damage" after her moment of weakness, RIA Novosti r

Belfast-based law firm Cleaver Fulton Rankin has announced the appointment of director Kerry McCloy to lead a new legal technology group. Ms McCloy and a team of eight project managers, solicitors and legal professionals will provide large-scale document review and expert eDiscovery services to near

Ministers have been accused by a Fianna Fáil senator of "politicising" the role of the Attorney General in their response to the controversy over an event at the Merrion Hotel. Around 50 people, including Tánaiste Leo Varadkar and other high-profile politicians, attended an outdoor eve

John L. Leckey, the former senior coroner for Northern Ireland, has passed away at the age of 73. Mr Leckey, who retired in October 2015 after more than three decades overseeing inquests, passed away yesterday, according to the Law Society of Northern Ireland.

A solicitor is among three people who have been sent forward for trial in connection with an alleged €268,000 property registration fraud in Dublin. Rathmines solicitor Herbert Kilcline has denied charges of money laundering and submitting false deeds to the Property Registration Authority (PRA

A public consultation has been launched in Ireland on a new EU proposal to ensure that consumers are protected from unsafe products in a digital age. The European Commission’s proposed Regulation on General Product Safety (GPSR) – which would replace the 20-year-old General Product Safet

Regulations giving effect to an EU directive which aims to improve the cross-border distribution of investment funds have been signed into law. Finance minister Paschal Donohoe has signed the European Union (Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities) (Amendment) Regulations 2

A solicitor who refused the Covid vaccine has died after becoming infected with the virus. Leslie Lawrenson, 58, said on Facebook people ought to “trust your immune system” and that he would rather develop “antibodies in my blood” than have the vaccine.

A milkman was inadvertently arrested after police mistook him for a burglar because he was "driving around so early in the morning". The milkman had been carrying out his duties in Newton Aycliffe, in the north-east of England, when officers began following his van.

The Court of Appeal has allowed an appeal by the Department for Communities (DfC) in a challenge against the legislation which provides that certain people with a terminal illness can receive welfare benefits without undergoing a full assessment. Handing down the judgment yesterday on behalf of a th

A joint action plan aimed at helping to resolve parental conflict over children outside of an adversarial court environment has been published by Northern Ireland's justice and health ministers. The Private Family Law Early Resolution Action Plan aims to change the way parental disputes are approach

Irish barrister Doireann O'Mahony has joined Normanton Chambers in London while retaining her practice at the Irish bar. Ms O'Mahony called to the bar of England and Wales in 2018 and specialises in clinical negligence, with a particular focus on birth injuries.

Migrant and refugee rights centre Nasc has announced the appointment of solicitor Brian Collins as a legal officer in Cork. Mr Collins will join Julie O'Leary and Natalia McDonald in the NGO's legal service, which works with between 1,200 and 1,500 refugees, asylum seekers and migrants each year.

The Irish Prison Service (IPS) has been urged to develop a national policy on the safe custody of transgender men and women following concerns about trans prisoners being held in prolonged solitary confinement. Prisons inspectors said two trans women prisoners in Limerick Prison are living "an extre

The Bar of Northern Ireland has welcomed the publication of the delivery plan for modernisation of the civil and family justice system. Justice minister Naomi Long yesterday published her plan of actions to be taken over the remainder of the current Assembly mandate to make the system more accessibl