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Northern Ireland's only remaining Victorian-era prison has reopened to visitors after a long period of closure during the Covid-19 pandemic.

A pair of debauchees allegedly pelted a person with rocks after he caught the couple having sex in his garden. The unnamed resident was cutting the grass near his property in Saskatchewan, Canada when he spotted two people having sex.

The High Court has held that the Labour Court was incorrect in law when it refused a claim by a HSE employee under the Protection of Employees (Fixed-Term Work) Act 2003 on the basis that he was not a fixed-term employee. The court said that the Labour Court had mistakenly decided that a person coul

A group of human rights NGOs, academics and lawyers has warned that new legacy proposals from the UK government "would breach both international law and the domestic Human Rights Act, deliver impunity, bury truth recovery and fundamentally undermine the rule of law". An open letter signed by 18 orga

Government ministers should make an annual Dáil statement on how Ireland is meeting its human rights obligations for disabled people, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has said. Chief commissioner Sinéad Gibney told the Oireachtas disability matters committee that she is i

Plans to establish a new joint "care and justice campus" for children and young people will go ahead after a consultation found broad support from the sector. More than 70 individuals and organisations responded to the consultation on proposals for a care and justice campus incorporating the existin

Our regular round-up of deals involving Irish law firms. Submit your deals to newsdesk@irishlegal.com. Belfast law firm Millar McCall Wylie has acted for Derry-based digital learning company Learning Pool and its management on a major investment by a US-based private equity firm.

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has launched a lawsuit in Germany aiming to end the practice of "real-time bidding" for online advertising – which it calls "the world's biggest data breach". The civil liberties body has initiated proceedings against IAB TechLab, an industry trade

Rosemary Connolly, principal solicitor at Rosemary Connolly Solicitors, Employment and Equality Lawyers, examines a significant decision in a sex discrimination claim in England. The claimant in the Court of Appeal decision Steer v Stormsure Limited failed in an application for interim relief arisin

Karim Ahmad Khan QC has been sworn in as the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. Mr Khan called to Lincoln's Inn in 1992, having obtained an LLB degree and AKC from King's College London. He later obtained a D.Phil from Oxford University and served as a crown prosecutor before embarking

Global law firm Eversheds Sutherland has donated 40 fruit orchards to children's charity Barretstown as part of a biodiversity initiative led by the Irish data centre community. The "Orchards in the Community" project is part of the DCs for Bees initiative launched by Host in Ireland, which promotes

A senior prosecutor in Utah has apologised after telling an elected politician to "die and go to hell" for disturbing his nap. Utah's Assistant Attorney General Steven Wuthrich sent a tirade of abuse to Salt Lake City councillor Darin Mano after "the interruption to my tranquillity", he admitted.

Mrs Justice Siobhan Keegan has been appointed as Lady Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, becoming the first woman ever to hold the highest judicial position in Northern Ireland. She will be sworn in as successor to the incumbent Lord Chief Justice, Sir Declan Morgan, at the start of September 2021 &

The Court of Appeal has upheld a €69,000 award of damages for a man who suffered injuries as a result of a low-speed car accident. The defendant had claimed in the appeal that the impact of the collision was too slight for any injuries to be caused, arguing that only about €500 of damage w

Patents of precedence have been granted to 25 barristers and 12 solicitors, entitling them to use the title of senior counsel. The barristers are William Abrahamson, Ray Boland, Conor Bourke, John Byrne, Dermot Cahill, Oisin Collins, Ruth Fitzgerald, Robert Fitzpatrick, Tom Flynn, Ted Harding, Ronan