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Thieves, robbers and burglars will be given GPS tags to track their whereabouts when they are released from prison in order to curb re-offending. Data from tags will let police check details of burglaries against movements of known offenders to determine whether they might be suspects.

A lawyer is facing a bill of more than £50,000 after having lost a court battle in a row over a "lovely thick" laurel hedge, The Times reports. Julia Lofthouse sued Nick Hartley after he told his gardener to thin the hedge that separates their properties in Surrey.

The Court of Appeal has ordered that a defendant in an unjust enrichment claim must make discovery of the price paid to National Asset Loan Management Limited for the plaintiff’s loans. The court determined that the purchase price was a relevant and necessary piece of information to the procee

The Government is to seek to rationalise laws on harassment to prevent offenders from contacting their victims. Department of Justice officials are drafting a new Sexual Offences Bill, due to be published towards the end of the year.

Justice Minister Helen McEntee and Garda Commissioner, Drew Harris, have welcomed Ireland’s connection to the Schengen Information System (SIS II). The Schengen Information System is the largest and most widely used IT system for public security in Europe, with 30 countries participating.

Maples and Calder (Ireland) LLP, the Maples Group's law firm, has announced the promotion of six of its lawyers bringing the total number of senior appointments in the last six months to eight. 

Banks should be alert to the obstacles posed by the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009 in exercising their power of sale under housing loan mortgages, writes Andrew Richardson. As most mortgagee and receiver sales over the past decade related to mortgages executed before the economic dow

Committal proceedings against a former soldier charged with murder on Bloody Sunday began yesterday in Derry. Soldier F is accused of the murder of James Wray and William McKinney, on January 30th, 1972, when British troops fired on civil rights demonstrators, killing 13 people.

ByrneWallace LLP has announced it was adviser on 10 of the transactions shortlisted for the Finance Dublin Deal of the Year Awards 2021. Presented annually, the Finance Dublin Deals of the Year Awards recognise the best in class Irish corporate finance transactions and the leading deal makers and pr

The Employment Bar Association (EBA) is organising an online series, 'The world of work, post-Covid'. The first of the series commences this Thursday, 18 March at 4.30pm.

Scotland's chief prosecutor, the Lord Advocate, must not be permitted to “mark his own homework” over the botched Rangers fraud probe which has resulted in compensation of more than £20 million paid to the victims of the malicious prosecution, a court has heard. Roddy Dun

A candidate for political office in Japan is conducting his campaign dressed as the Joker. Yuusuke Kawai, who is hoping to become governor of Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, is running as a candidate for the Party to Make All of Chiba a Land of Dreams and Magic, SoraNews24 reports.

The High Court has refused an “innovative motion” to decide EU law points in a planning application despite the court already having quashed the decision on domestic law grounds. In Balscadden Road SAA Residents Association Ltd. v. An Bord Pleanála (No. 1) [2020] IEHC 586, the cou

The European Union is to take legal action today against the UK over its unilateral attempt to change the terms of the Northern Ireland Protocol, RTÉ News reports. The European Commission will issue legal proceedings in a letter to the UK government, after its decision earlier this month to u

Linklaters is planning to open an office in Dublin, The Sunday Times reports. The magic circle firm has 5,300 staff in 30 offices around the world and had revenues of £1.64 billion (€1.9 billion) last year.