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A man sued a videogame company after his friend sold his character in the game Justice Online, worth almost £1.1 million, for £429. The Chinese man filed suit against Netease and his friend – who said he had mistakenly sold it for 3,888 yuan to a shrewd in-game buyer due to dizzine

The Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland has refused to quash a sentence which it found to be unduly lenient because the Director of Public Prosecutions sought to advance an entirely new case on appeal – amounting to “conspicuous unfairness” to the respondent and to the trial judge.

Confidence in the legal sector has dipped dramatically in the past 12 months, according to a new report. The results of Smith & Williamson’s 8th Annual Survey of Irish Law Firms 2019/20 show that only 19 per cent of all firms and none of the top 20 largest firms believe the legal sect

Criminals drawing social welfare payments have been stripped of more than €11 million by the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) over two decades, the Sunday Independent reports. A doctoral thesis on the CAB has also revealed it recovered €178.5m in taxes and €26m in seized assets over the s

Lawyers for the families of nine of those killed on Bloody Sunday have asked the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) to look again at its decision not to prosecute nine soldiers for murder and attempted murder, The Irish Times reports. The lawyers also argue that Solider F, the former member of the Bri

Contempt of court proceedings against Facebook and Twitter, where the identities of the two boys who murdered schoolgirl Ana Kriegel were shared, have been stuck out, despite the continuation of "alarming posts" online. An injunction compelling Facebook Ireland Limited and Twitter International Comp

A lawyer is facing jail after admitting to stealing almost £1 million from the accounts of clients, the Belfast Telegraph reports. Graham Keys, 64, also admitted he had defrauded a Belfast law firm – where he had formerly been a partner – of nearly £300,000.

Anne-Marie McAlinden, professor of law and criminal justice at Queen's University Belfast, has been awarded the Kevin Boyle Book Prize for outstanding legal scholarship. Professor McAlinden received the award for her book Children as 'Risk': Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by Children and Young People

The barriers to open disclosure must be addressed if an open culture in healthcare is to be achieved, according to a medical protection organisation. The call from the Medical Protection Society (MPS) comes as the Patient Safety Bill 2018, which provides for open disclosure, continues to receive leg

New rules governing social media companies based in Ireland aim to be "robust" and equip a media commission with “significant enforcement powers”, the Department of Communications has said. It said that Minister Richard Bruton intends to bring a general scheme of the bill to the Gov

Keynote speakers at the Law Society of Nothern Ireland's Immigration Conference 2019.

Russia has passed legislation banning the sale of smartphones, computers and smart TVs that are not pre-installed with Russian software. The law, due to come in force next July, has come under criticism from privacy experts and the tech industry.

The new statutory scheme providing for periodic payment orders (PPO) for plaintiffs with catastrophic injuries has been described as “a dead letter” in the High Court. Noting that the Courts did not have discretion to fix an increase other than that specified in the Harmonised Index

Mr Justice John L. Murray, who served as Chief Justice of Ireland from 2004 to 2011, is set to join a distinguished panel to discuss the future constitutional arrangements for Ireland and Northern Ireland. The Hibernian Law Journal will host the panel discussion as its 2019 annual lecture, titled &l

Northern Ireland lawyer Conal McGarrity is bringing a landmark case concerning child maintenance orders to the European Court of Justice on behalf of a Polish man living in Northern Ireland. The case will consider whether child maintenance orders made in Poland five years before Poland's accession t