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Mr Justice Brian O'Moore and Ms Justice Niamh Hyland have been nominated for appointment to the Supreme Court. The two Court of Appeal judges have been nominated to fill the vacancies arising from the retirement of Ms Justice Elizabeth Dunne this week and the scheduled retirement of Mr Justice Peter

Irish law on the copyrighting of AI-generated works should be brought in line with the rest of the EU before the matter ends up before the courts, a leading technology lawyer has said. Dr Barry Scannell, partner at William Fry and a member of Ireland's AI Advisory Council, said a recent court ruling

An employment judge in Northern Ireland has described a claimant's use of generative AI to produce his witness statement as a "disturbing development". Employment Judge Sheils made the remarks in a ruling on a disability discrimination case brought against the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Servic

Newly-qualified solicitors in Northern Ireland were told they must learn to adapt to an ever-changing legal landscape of AI and rapidly developing legal technologies as they were welcomed to the profession last week.

The Hibernian Law Journal has launched its 24th volume, with Sam Byrne taking up the role of editor-in-chief for the coming 25th volume. Jonathon Boylan was awarded the prize of Best Overall Contribution to Volume 24 for his article entitled "On Whose Authority? An Analysis of Judicial Discretion in

The UK's data protection regulator has fined Reddit £14.47 million (around €16.6m) for children's privacy failures. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said the online platform had failed to apply a robust age assurance mechanism to prevent under-13s from creating accounts.

Gardaí have reported significant reductions in reports of most major crimes in 2025. An Garda Síochána this week published its provisional crime statistics for 2025.

A new documentary series is to explore seminal moments in Irish history where women took on the legal system. Ceartas Crua – Mná v An Dlí, a bilingual two-part documentary series to be broadcast on TG4, covers legal action in the Irish courts and legislation enacted in the Oireac

The Irish government has announced a €750,000 increase in its annual funding for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Ireland will now contribute a total of more than €5 million to the leading UN body for human rights, which has a unique mandate

Ukrainian refugees abroad have been invited to submit compensation claims to a Council of Europe initiative aimed at holding Russia accountable for the costs of its invasion for the past four years. The Register of Damage for Ukraine yesterday opened a new category of claims, A1.2, which covers "inv

The "right to be forgotten" has not been fully realised, according to a new report on a Europe-wide enforcement campaign. Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) was among the EU data protection bodies which took part in enforcement actions under the European Data Protection Board's (EDPB) coordi

A man who admitted smuggling drugs into Mexico has been given the benefit of the doubt after saying he didn't mean to bring them back to Canada. Daniel Jacob Cluett was charged with three counts of importing substances into Canada after border officials found cocaine and MDMA in his luggage.

The EU has said it is seeking clarity from the US on its policy intentions after the country's top court ruled many of Trump's flagship tariffs to be unlawful. The Supreme Court of the United States appeared to catch the president off-guard by ruling 6-3 that he cannot rely on the International Emer

A memorial plaque honouring victims and survivors of historical institutional abuse has been unveiled at Northern Ireland's Parliament Buildings.

Stakeholders have been invited to make submissions to an Oireachtas committee scrutinising plans to lift the Dublin Airport passenger cap through legislation. The Oireachtas joint committee on transport is carrying out pre-legislative scrutiny of the general scheme for the Dublin Airport (Passenger