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The High Court in Belfast has dismissed three conjoined applications challenging the UK Government’s Brexit strategy, which the applicants argued would result in a no-deal Brexit and a hard border in breach of the Good Friday Agreement. Finding that the subject matter of the applications was "

Mason Hayes & Curran has announced the appointment of Marcus Kennedy as a partner in the firm’s real estate team. Mr Kennedy, previously a senior associate with the firm, helps clients with all aspects of commercial property transactions. He has a particular focus on development land, land

The number of solicitors on the Irish roll reached a record high of 20,531 at the end of August, the Law Society of Ireland has announced. Writing in the Law Society Gazette, director general Ken Murphy said the "biggest factor in the remarkable rate of increase in recent years has been the tsunami

A special power of Scotland's Court of Session has been brought to bear on Prime Minister Boris Johnson personally and could allow a functionary of the court to sign in his place – forcing him to extend Article 50. A new case has been brought before the Edinburgh-based cour

German academic Dr Nina C. Leuck has been awarded funding from the European Commission to carry out research at UCD Sutherland School of Law on refugee education. Dr Leuck, who has lectured at UCL Laws in London for the past four years, will work with Professor Oonagh Breen during her two-year proje

Eimear Nugent, solicitor at immigration law specialists Berkeley Solicitors, examines an important ruling on the rights of EU citizens' spouses. The European Court of Justice delivered a very significant judgment in the case of Chenchooliah v Minister for Justice on Tuesday 10 September 2019, follow

The Employment Law Association of Ireland (ELAI) has launched the first in a new series of podcasts on key issues in employment law. The first episode of the podcast, now available for download, features an interview with the association's current chair, Peter Murphy, partner at Dublin-based O'Mara

Lawyers for a Syrian national seeking to relocate from Turkey to Ireland have asked the Department of Foreign Affairs to intervene and expedite his visa application. Belfast-based KRW Law is representing Tareq Samha, a freelance author and translator who currently lives in Turkey with his British wi

Social media giants including Facebook and Twitter are likely to face significant fines for misuse of personal data, Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon has warned. Ms Dixon made the comments at the Secure Computing Forum at the Royal Dublin Society (RDS), the Irish Independent reports.

Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, is set to challenge a court order to pay €35,000 to a solicitor to help find suitable accommodation for a vulnerable 17-year-old boy. The agency was ordered by a District Court judge to pay €35,000 to a solicitor representing the boy's guardian ad litem

Mr Justice Michael Peart will chair the Kildare Solicitors Bar Association (KSBA) conference later this month, ahead of his retirement from the Court of Appeal bench in October. The annual one-day conference at the K Club in Straffan on Friday 27 September will offer seven hours of CPD.

Tully Rinckey Ireland has announced that proceeds from its upcoming private screening of documentary RBG will be donated to the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre (DRCC).

Newly-declassified cables provide further details of the torture two men – Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah – were subjected to by the CIA during interrogations UK security services were aware of and sometimes supplied questions for. “Rule out nothing whatsoever th

Thirty detainees have been released in Denmark because of a glitch with phone operators' geolocation data that has led to the review of more than 10,700 cases. Police in Denmark began looking at the issue when they found a bug in software that converts data from mobile towers to render it useable by

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