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Outdoor pubs and restaurants which fail to take public health guidelines seriously following the reopening of the hospitality sector this Friday could lose their licences next year, a Belfast lawyer has warned. Christopher Bullock, an associate at O'Reilly Stewart Solicitors, has highlighted that ne

Unreliable witness testimony has been the biggest cause of miscarriages of justice over the past half-century, a new study suggests. The research also suggests that regulations governing the powers of police have been effective in reducing wrongful convictions caused by unreliable confessions.

The Law Society of Northern Ireland has called for British-Iranian woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to be released from prison in Iran. Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has already served five years in an Iranian prison for supposedly plotting to topple the Iranian government, was this week given a further

A hand grenade discovered in a German forest, leading to a full-scale bomb disposal operation, has turned out to be a rubber sex toy. Police were alerted to the possible explosive after it was spotted by a woman jogging through the forest near the Bavarian city of Passau, DW reports.

The Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland has allowed an appeal against a decision by the High Court to adjourn a case arising from the Renewable Heat Initiative (RHI) scheme. The case had previously been adjourned to allow for further legislation to be enacted which might have disposed of the applica

Magic circle firm Linklaters has named London-based partners Nicole Kar and Richard Cumbley as the co-leaders of its new Dublin office. Ms Kar currently heads the firm's UK antitrust and foreign investment team, while Mr Cumbley is its global head of technology, media and telecommunication (TLT) and

International law firm Simmons & Simmons has announced the promotion of Derek Lawlor and James McKnight to partners in Dublin. The double appointment forms part of a global round of 13 partner promotions across eight offices in Europe and Asia.

Corporate and commercial law firm Mills Selig has announced the promotion of senior associates Maeve Fisher and Kirsten Magee to partner. The double promotion in the litigation team brings the Northern Ireland firm's total partner count to 12.

Finance lawyer Anna Vangrove has joined Shoosmiths as a banking and finance partner in Belfast. An experienced banking lawyer specialising in real estate finance and energy finance, Ms Vangrove joins from TLT, where she spent six years and was latterly the head of its Belfast banking and finance tea

The four professional bodies of barristers and advocates of the UK and Ireland have condemned Chinese sanctions against barristers who gave legal advice in connection with human rights abuses in Xinjiang. The Bar of Ireland and the Bar Council of Northern Ireland, as well as the Faculty of Advo

Ireland's data protection watchdog is failing to enforce the GDPR and is allowing "the biggest data breach ever recorded" to continue to happen, an Oireachtas committee will hear today. Representatives of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) are among those who will be giving evidence on the

A consultation on legislation to establish a new national food ombudsman or regulator has opened. The government has committed to establishing a new authority to enforce EU-wide rules on prohibited unfair trading practices in the food supply chain.

The deputy chief executive of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) will join a panel of experts for tonight's Hibernian Law Journal annual lecture on the challenges of online disinformation. Celene Craig will be joined on the panel by Professor Lorna Woods OBE, professor of internet law at th

Research into the Irish system of legal representation for complainants in sexual offence trials has been cited with approval in a judicial-led review of Scottish sexual offences cases. Eamon Keane, an academic at the University of Edinburgh, and Scottish solicitor Tony Convery published a report on

Allen & Overy (A&O) has invited Northern Ireland charities which promote access to justice or support and develop education or employment projects to apply for a share of £40,000 in funding. The funding has been made available from the Allen & Overy Foundation, which is funded by c