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The deputy chief executive of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) will join a panel of experts for tonight's Hibernian Law Journal annual lecture on the challenges of online disinformation. Celene Craig will be joined on the panel by Professor Lorna Woods OBE, professor of internet law at th

Research into the Irish system of legal representation for complainants in sexual offence trials has been cited with approval in a judicial-led review of Scottish sexual offences cases. Eamon Keane, an academic at the University of Edinburgh, and Scottish solicitor Tony Convery published a report on

Allen & Overy (A&O) has invited Northern Ireland charities which promote access to justice or support and develop education or employment projects to apply for a share of £40,000 in funding. The funding has been made available from the Allen & Overy Foundation, which is funded by c

A new law putting the US state of Georgia on daylight savings time all year round will reduce crime, officials have claimed. Governor Brian Kemp has signed Senate Bill 100, which provides that Georgia "shall observe daylight savings time year round as the standard time of the entire state".

The High Court has decided to refer a point of EU law to the CJEU regarding an access to information claim brought by the information activist group Right To Know CLG (RTK) against the Taoiseach. Specifically, it was claimed that the applicant was entitled to certain greenhouse emissions information

New personal injury guidelines providing for significantly reduced payouts in most cases came into effect on Saturday. The guidelines, approved by the Judicial Council last month, were brought into force through legislation which commenced on Saturday 24 April.

The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) held 2,000 fewer adjudication hearings last year than it otherwise would have due to the Covid-19 pandemic. According to its annual report for 2020, the WRC held 1,899 adjudication hearings last year, 1,609 of which were face-to-face and 290 which were virtua

People working with children or vulnerable adults could have to undergo re-vetting every three years under a proposed strengthening of the Garda vetting system. Justice Minister Helen McEntee today announced the establishment of an interdepartmental group to review Garda vetting arrangements and leg

Hundreds of previous convictions for selling sex are set to be expunged under a new government initiative. Justice Minister Helen McEntee yesterday announced that those convicted of offences abolished under the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017 would benefit from new legislation expunging thei

An Irish barrister has helped to secure justice for dozens of former UK subpostmasters who were wrongly convicted over a 15-year period. Tim Moloney QC represented the majority of the former subpostmasters who have had long-standing convictions quashed at the Court of Appeal in London.

A redress scheme for survivors of mother and baby homes should be established to run in parallel with a public inquiry, the Northern Ireland Executive has been told. Jon McCourt, chairperson of victims' group Survivors North West, told an event organised by Amnesty International and Ulster Universit

Lawyers for a former British soldier charged with the attempted murder of a 27-year-old man in 1974 have launched a bid to bring a claim for discriminatory treatment to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Dennis Hutchings, who served in the British Army for 26 years, is being prosecuted for

Controversial new EU copyright rules will help help close the "value gap" between content creators and online service providers, an expert in IP law has said. Marking World Intellectual Property Day, Dr Mark Hyland, the IMRO adjunct professor of IP law at the Law Society of Ireland, said Article 17

Canada's top court has ruled that the US-based Sinixt nation's ancestral land rights survived the migration of their members south in the 19th century, the National Post reports. The court found for Rick Desautel, a descendent of the Sinixt who lives in Washington state. He was charged in 2010 with

A judge accused of selling judicial favours to the mafia had tens of thousands of euros stashed in his electrical sockets, Italian police have said. Judge Giuseppe De Benedictis was found to have around €60,000 (£52,000) in plastic bags stuffed behind his power switches, The Times reports