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The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has set out concerns that a new law being prepared to build online safety and strengthen media regulation, has no detail on the role or functions of a proposed new Online Safety Commissioner. The Commission has also set out its analysis that the current

A backlog of some 500 laws yet to be translated into Irish will now take until 2024 to finish, Houses of the Oireachtas officials have said. Sinn Féin TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh said that Irish had always been seen as an “afterthought”, but said the absence of translation raises

Arthur Cox partner Kevin Langford and associate Ailbhe Moloney explore a recent gender discrimination ruling. In December 2020 an Adjudication Officer of the Workplace Relations Commission (AO) issued his decision in the case of Yvonne O’Rourke v Minister for Defence ADJ-00007375 and DEC-E2020

Lord Neuberger has agreed to remain a judge of Hong Kong's top court for another three years, The Times reports. The former UK Supreme Court president's decision comes amid calls for the judges to step down over Beijing's attacks on democracy in the territory.

Employment law solicitor Richard Grogan takes a look at the different kinds of workplace stress. Workplace stress and burnout has always been relevant. Increasingly it is affecting executives, particularly senior executives, managers, professionals, and those in the medical profession particula

Four out of five last-minute legal claims brought by illegal immigrants in an attempt to avoid deportation are eventually rejected, according to the Home Office. An analysis of people detained since 2017 has found more than 70 per cent made new claims or legal appeals days before they were due to be

A politician has been fined €10,000 for offering a wolf's tail as a retirement present. Jean-Marie Bernard, of France's conservative Republican party, said the gift was a “friendly gesture” as well as a political act to support farmers whose livelihoods are endangered by wolves.

The High Court has rejected an applicant’s submissions that he was unlawfully remanded in custody by a Circuit Court judge for a hearing to revoke a suspended sentence. The court considered the terms of s.99(17) of the Criminal Justice Act 2006 as amended and ruled that a court has an inherent

Global law firm Hogan Lovells has expanded into the Irish legal market with the opening of an office in Dublin which will initially focus on financial regulatory and antitrust/competition law advice. London partner Christopher Hutton has relocated to Dublin to take up the role of managing partner of

Justice Minister Helen McEntee will give up the justice portfolio for six months during her maternity leave, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has announced. Social Protection Minister Heather Humphreys will be assigned responsibility for the Department of Justice from the beginning of May until the e

Legislation to introduce preliminary trial hearings has cleared the Dáil and is on track to be approved by Senators before the summer recess. The Criminal Procedure Bill 2021, developed in consultation with the Courts Service and the Director of Public Prosecutions, will implement a recommend

Two major pieces of legislation on money laundering and white collar crime have been passed by the Oireachtas and will soon come into effect. The Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill strengthens existing anti-money laundering legislation and will give effect t

The Council of Europe has reopened its consideration of the Pat Finucane case following the UK government's refusal to order a fresh public inquiry into the solicitor's murder in 1998. The UK Supreme Court ruled in February 2019 that the state had failed to deliver an Article 2 compliant investigati

Experts in international trade and investment, EU external relations and Irish constitutional law will examine the legal and policy issues at stake in Ireland's ratification of the controversial CETA trade deal at an event later this month. The online seminar hosted by Maynooth University Department

The UK Supreme Court should be brought to heel in the wake of high-profile constitutional rulings, a former government lawyer has said. Sir Stephen Laws, former first parliamentary counsel, has called for curbs on the court's power and clarification of judges' powers.