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A £15 million plan to develop part of Belfast’s Crumlin Road Gaol into a whisky distillery has been given the go-ahead by Belfast City Council. Its planning committee approved the application, which will also see part of the old prison's 'A' wing transformed into a tourist centre, the Be

A renewed attack on trial by jury in Scotland has been met with scorn from lawyers. A "cross-justice" group led by Scotland's second most senior judge – the Lord Justice Clerk, Lady Dorrian – has proposed a pilot of juryless rape trials in what represents the latest attemp

There is one week left to submit case notes to the Hibernian Law Journal for its Case Note Competition 2021.

A non-binary barrister is thought to be the first whose name appears on a chambers' board with the title 'Mx', The Times reports. Oscar Davies, 26, who is biologically male, identifies as non-binary and prefers to be referred to with pronouns whose lexeme is 'they', but is also content with 'he'.

Benjamin Bestgen turns his eye to the legalities of torture this week. See last week's jurisprudential primer here. Torture is a disturbingly common feature in our entertainment. In medieval or horror stories but also war and crime movies, books or TV series, the bad guys routinely torture innocents

Taiwanese officials are calling on people to stop changing their name to Salmon. The situation, dubbed "salmon chaos" by local media came about after Japanese chain Sushiro ran a promotion which ended on Thursday offering free food to any customer and five of their friends – if they changed th

The Court of Appeal has reduced the sentence for a man found guilty of robbery and vehicle theft after the sentencing judge gave a “clear indication” that he would issue a lenient sentence if the man continued his rehabilitation. Giving judgment in the case, Mr Justice Seamus Woulfe redu

The Court of Justice of the European Court has found in favour of a native Irish speaker who argued that information accompanying veterinary medicinal products failed to comply with a directive that it be in both Irish and English. The court ruled that a Member State court is required to exercise th

A Crown appeal against the Sheriff Appeal Court’s decision to quash the convictions of three men who wore allegedly offensive T-shirts to a football match between Celtic FC and Linfield FC has succeeded in the High Court of Justiciary – Scotland's highest criminal court and fro

Ireland's laws dealing with disputes between workers and management could be deficient and “out of line” with the rest of Europe, according to a trade body. The Brussels European Employee Relations Group (BEERG) has written to Enterprise Minister and Tánaiste Leo Varadkar to

A 69-year-old victim of abuse at an industrial school in Cork is taking the State to court over legal aid provisions and a gagging order that makes it a criminal offence for survivors to reveal the compensation they were awarded under the Residential Institutions Redress Scheme. Tom Cronin has broug

The President of the Supreme Court, Lord Reed, has described as "idiotic" suggestions that the court should be stripped of its title and said that downgrading the institution would be an “act of national self-harm”. The UK government has been considering changing the court's name and cut

Grieving families have been left waiting for death certificates as coroners' courts face a significant backlog due to the pandemic, the Irish Examiner reports. The Coroners Society of Ireland agreed that inquests were to be paused in January to abide by public health restrictions, Justice Minister H

The need for clarification of the legislative landscape governing cryptocurrency is one of the world’s worst kept secrets, write Andrew Tzialli and Rachel McCausland. Bitcoin in particular recently earned its place on a global platform by exceeding a $1 trillion market cap and investors (

Calling someone “old-school” is not necessarily ageist, a tribunal has ruled in a dispute involving an employee's preference for uppercase letters. Lydia Roganovic, 50, insisted on publishing social media tags in capital letters when she worked at iplato Healthcare Ltd in London.