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A woman who recently renewed her driver's license was left laughing after the new license came back with a photo of an empty chair.

The Court of Appeal has overturned the ruling of then-president of the High Court, Mr Justice Peter Kelly, refusing to adjourn an inquiry into whether a man with a moderate learning disability who wanted to marry should be made a ward of court. Background

Tully Rinckey LLP has announced the appointment of Declan Brooks as a partner in the firm's Dublin office. Mr Brooks, who specialises in property law, has served as a consultant to the firm since last September.

Eugene F Collins has announced the promotion of banking lawyer Ray Byrne to partner, strengthening the firm's team in a crucial sector for economic growth and recovery in the years ahead. Mr Byrne joined the firm as a senior associate last November, having spent the previous five years in the financ

Law Centre NI has successfully challenged the decision to withhold bereavement support payment to the family of a woman who was severely disabled due to a progressive degenerative condition. Throughout her working life, Pauline O'Donnell had been unable to work due to severe congenital disabilities

Barrister Johanna Higgins has been reappointed to the Historic Buildings Council (HBC). Ms Higgins, a barrister of the Inner Temple in London who has also been called to The Bar of Northern Ireland and The Bar of Ireland, has served on the HBC since July 2016 and has been reappointed until the end o

Our regular round-up of deals involving Irish law firms. Submit your deals to newsdesk@irishlegal.com. Matheson has advised US-based Modern Hire on its recent acquisition of Ireland-based video technology company Sonru.

Ireland is in breach of the binding Aarhus Convention because of the length of appeal proceedings related to rejected Access to Information on the Environment (AIE) requests, draft findings suggest. The findings from the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee (ACCC) were published following a compla

Damage caused to the footpaths outside Cork's circuit courthouse building has cost the city €6,000 plus VAT to repair. The damage was caused by years of daily illegal car parking on the pavements, a council spokesperson told the Irish Examiner

The amount of illicit homemade alcohol seized in Irish prisons nearly tripled in the first half of 2020, according to new figures. A total of 541 litres of alcohol were seized between 1 January 2020 and 11 July 2020, compared to 395 litres for the whole of 2019, The Irish Times reports.

Human rights group Liberty has won a ground-breaking legal challenge in the UK against police use of facial recognition technology. In a judgment handed down today, the Court of Appeal agreed with Liberty’s submissions, on behalf of Cardiff resident Ed Bridges, 37, and found South Wales Police

A coalition including Human Rights Watch and 160 other NGOs has published a report on the use of fully autonomous weapons and calling for a ban on the use of so-called "killer robots". The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots was launched in 2013 and since then there have been increasing calls to ban the

An American lawyer has shared harrowing footage on Twitter of an eight-year-old boy with special needs being handcuffed and arrested after allegedly punching his teacher.

The family of Benito Mussolini have sparked controversy after demanding that the fascist's crypt be turned into a national monument. The Mussolini family lawyer sent a letter to the mayor of Predappio, Mussolini's home town, calling for the tomb to be turned into a monument supported with taxpayer m

The Law Society of Ireland has welcomed the recommendations of review of protections for vulnerable witnesses in the investigation and prosecution of sexual offences. A number of the recommendations in the Law Society's submission to the review last May have been incorporated in its final report, pu