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A Scottish lawyer who says she suffered “psychiatric injury” while working at the Crown Office is to have her £1.3 million damages claim against the Lord Advocate heard at the Court of Session in Edinburgh. Laura Malone, 53, argues that the Lord Advocate, James Wolffe QC, is vicari

Police officers in New York City will swap their notebooks for an iPhone app in a move upending a century of tradition. The iconic "memo book" in which officers have taken handwritten notes since the 1800s will be scrapped next Monday, The New York Times reports.

The Ministry of Defence has lost an appeal against the award of £15,000 compensatory damages and aggravated damages to the widow of Bernard McGuigan, who was shot dead on Bloody Sunday. Dismissing the appeal, Lord Justice Bernard McCloskey said that Mr McGuigan was capable of being a victim of

The new Judicial Council will "authoritatively assert judicial independence and respect for the rule of law should it ever come under threat", Chief Justice Frank Clarke has told its inaugural meeting. The entire Irish judiciary attended the plenary meeting at the King's Inns this morning, where the

The Supreme Court is hearing an appeal from two people who came to Ireland as refugees but subsequently naturalised as Irish citizens and were subsequently denied access to the family reunification scheme. Ms Justice Marie Baker, sitting in the Court of Appeal, ruled against 'MAM' and 'KN' last May.

Personal injury and road traffic accident specialist firm JMK Solicitors has named Cancer Fund for Children as its charity partner for 2020. The charity provides practical and emotional support to young people up to 24 years old who have been diagnosed with cancer, as well as young people who have a

DWF's highest earner took home a profit share of £1 million for the period 2018/19, The Lawyer reports. The accounts relate to the firm's UK operations, in addition to offices in Belgium, Italy, Qatar and Singapore.

Michael Murphy, litigation partner at Holmes O'Malley Sexton Solicitors, weighs up a recent decision of the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) in England. In both Ireland and England, where a solicitor makes a mistake and their insurer authorises them to seek to resolve the deficiency, where tha

A former barrister who returned home to County Kerry and pursued a new career as a sustainable artist and fashion designer has celebrated a year of award-winning success. Christine O'Donoghue de Vries, a graduate of UCC School of Law and the King's Inns, founded House of Kerry in 2016, drawing inspi

Environmentalists at Yale Law School have joined peers at Harvard Law School in a campaign targeting recruitment events for Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP until the international law firm drops ExxonMobil as a client. The firm, which employs over 1,000 lawyers, has successfully def

On Wednesday 7 January 1761, Dorcas Kelly (also known as Darkey Kelly) was executed near St Stephens Green in Dublin. Darkey was a sex worker and “brothel keeper” who had been found guilty of the murder of a shoemaker called John Dowling the previous year, and her sentence was “to

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Statement by Ambassador Karen Pierce, UK Permanent Representative to the UN, at the United Nations Security Council briefing by the Chairperson from the OSCE

A pair of senior Russian police officers have been spared jail after creating a drug den to later bust. They convinced three known drug users to manufacture and consume the opioid "krokodil" in a flat using ingredients they stole from police evidence stores.

A man who was refused a short-term tenancy for a residential property has had his appeal to the High Court dismissed. Finding that the Circuit Court had not erred on a point of law, Mr Justice Garrett Simons said that the complainant was dissatisfied with the findings of fact made with regards his d

Eversheds Sutherland has announced the promotion of Eoin MacAodha, Julie Galbraith and Peter O'Neill to partner in the firm's Dublin office. Mr MacAodha, who has become partner in the firm's litigation practice, has a particular focus on regulatory compliance and white collar crime, as well as exten