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Former High Court president Mr Justice Peter Kelly has cast doubt on whether reduced personal injury payouts will lead to cheaper insurance premiums. In an interview with The Irish Times, he compared the introduction of new personal injury guidelines to the abolition of juries in High Court personal

Agencies tackling economic crime and corruption will gain the same surveillance powers as gardaí and Revenue Commissioners under legislation to be developed by the end of the year. The extension of powers under the Criminal Justice (Surveillance) Act 2009 to other "appropriate bodies" forms p

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A cinema chain has settled a disability discrimination claim brought by a woman who uses a wheelchair with support from the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland. Leah Batchelor is a user of the CEA card scheme, which allows people who need additional support in public to receive an additional co

NUI Galway School of Law has announced the academic promotions of staff members Dr Shivaun Quinlivan, Dr Rónán Kennedy and Professor Padraic Kenna. In recognition of their teaching and research excellence, Dr Quinlivan and Dr Kennedy have been promoted to senior lecturer while Professo

Former courthouses in rural communities are among buildings set to be transformed with public funding into remote working hubs, libraries, e-learning, cultural, enterprise and community spaces. Rural and Community Development Minister Heather Humphreys today announced €75 million in funding for

Matheson has shared its "diversity and inclusion journey" with Irish business leaders at the National Diversity and Inclusion Conference. Chairperson Tara Doyle spoke at the conference's first session – “Diversity & Inclusion in Action” – alongside representatives from AM

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued penalties totalling £42.4 million last year, according to new figures. The data, contained in the ICO’s ‘work to recover fines’ report and analysed by the Parliament Street think tank, reveals a catalogue of fines

A landlord couple who refused to return a security deposit to tenants they accused of ruining the property with cigar smoke are facing a £100,000 legal bill. Nick Boakes and husband Harald Denker counter-sued after their former tenant Jonathan Hagmaier went to court for the return of the &poun

The Supreme Court has confirmed the final orders in the recent landmark decision regarding the constitutionality of the Workplace Relations Commission procedures. The court determined that the applicant was entitled to the full costs in both the Supreme Court and High Court. In making the decision,

Emergency legislation allowing for hearings of the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) to take place in public in light of a landmark Supreme Court ruling will be brought to the Oireachtas within weeks. Judges last week upheld the constitutional validity of the WRC in the Zalewski case, but declare

Landmark legislation introducing a statutory aggravation model for hate crime in Ireland has been approved by the Cabinet. Justice Minister Helen McEntee today published the general scheme of the Criminal Justice (Hate Crime) Bill 2021 which, if approved, will become Ireland's only specific legislat

The widow of murdered solicitor Pat Finucane has been granted leave for a judicial review of the UK government's refusal to order a fresh public inquiry into the 1998 killing. Mr Justice Scoffield, in the High Court in Belfast, yesterday granted leave for Geraldine Finucane's new judicial review pro

The first edition of the Irish Judicial Studies Journal for 2021 is now online.

Protections against religious discrimination in employment would be extended to school teachers under a proposed private member's bill. Chris Lyttle, Alliance MLA for Belfast East, has launched a consultation on a proposed bill to include teachers under the Fair Employment and Treatment (NI) Order 1