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The Victims of Crime Act 2017 transposes Directive 2012/29EU into Irish law and defines a victim as “a natural person who suffered harm including physical, mental or emotional harm or economic loss which was directly caused by an offence”. Denise Kirwan, a partner in child and family law

University College Dublin legal academics Dr Eoin Carolan and Dr TJ McIntyre have been promoted to the posts of full professor and associate professor respectively. Eoin Carolan is founding Director of the Centre for Constitutional Studies at UCD. He is a graduate and former Scholar of Trinity Colle

A new law will require food businesses to include full ingredients labelling on pre-packaged foods following the death of teenager Natasha Ednan-Laperouse in 2016. Natasha died after she had an allergic reaction to a baguette from Pret A Manger.

Pictured yesterday at the Law Society of Ireland is Sinead Fitzgerald, partner in child and family law at Comyn Kelleher Tobin.

A healthy man died after he was held in a court cell on one of the hottest days of the year, an inquest jury has heard. In June 2017, Rafal Sochacki, 43, was held for almost five hours in Westminster Magistrates' Court, which had faulty air conditioning, the BBC reports.

Frequent fliers are being told to include their air miles in their wills. People who travel often can amass points worth tens of thousands of pounds that become void upon death due to airlines' terms and conditions.

The solution is designed to improve case handling for firms through digital workflow management and increased functionality 25 June 2019, UK: Independent software company Insight Legal Software today announces the launch of its Enterprise module, to provide law firms with the increased functionality

The High Court has made an order for the return of two children who were wrongfully removed from Canada without their father’s consent in February 2019. Rejecting all of the individual objections raised by the children’s mother, Ms Justice Aileen Donnelly said none of

A law firm has been ordered to pay more than £250,000 to a solicitor who was paid less than her male colleagues. Margaret (Peggy) Mercer took an equal pay case against Belfast-based commercial law firm C & H Jefferson Solicitors, which has now merged with multinational firm DWF.

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has announced that the Government has today approved his proposals for the drafting of general schemes to extend the circumstances in which recording devices, including body-worn cameras, can be used by An Garda Síochána and to codify police power

People on bail were responsible for more than one in nine of all crimes recorded last year, the Irish Examiner reports. Figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) indicate that these include one in seven of all murder and manslaughter cases.

Yvonne Joyce, a partner at Comyn Kelleher Tobin takes a look at legislation altering the coronial regime. The Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018 was published by Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan on 2nd August 2018. The Bill proposes significant amendments to the current legislation including:

The Polish legislation concerning the lowering of the retirement age of judges of the Supreme Court is contrary to EU law, the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled. Lawyers for the country's government had argued that the law was meant to bring the judicial retirement age into line with

Scottish advocates (barristers) Shane Dundas and Michael Way, were the winners of an inaugural moot between Scottish devils and Northern Ireland pupil barristers held in Court 9 of the Court of Session, Scotland's supreme civil court, on Friday in Edinburgh. Organised by the Faculty of Adv

France has banned research on judicial behaviour in an attempt to suppress the litigation analytics and predictions sector with a new law that carries a maximum jail term of five years. The law, in Article 33 of the Justice Reform Act, aims to stop anyone, but particularly legal tech companies, from