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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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Police are looking for thieves who stole bells from grazing cows in the Austrian mountains. "Of course people may wonder why someone would steal a cowbell," Bernhard Gruber, a police spokesman from the Tyrol region, told AFP.

A man who was convicted of raping a 91-year-old woman in 2001 has had his application to appeal his conviction for failure to comply with notification requirements under the Sexual Offences Act 2003 refused. Finding that the enhanced notification requirements did not breach Article 7

Belfast firm Millar McCall Wylie has announced the appointment of employment solicitor David Mitchell following a period of significant growth. The appointment will see Mr Mitchell, who qualified as a solicitor in 2014, advising and representing both employees and employers alongside employment part

Limerick solicitor Kevin Doughan passed away suddenly on Tuesday at the age of 43. Mr Doughan was an associate solicitor at the Limerick office of Holmes O'Malley Sexton Solicitors, which he joined in 2014 after practising in Dublin for over a decade.

The Abhaile scheme to help people in home mortgage arrears will be extended for a further three years, Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan and Social Protection Minister Regina Doherty have announced. The scheme was set up in 2016 and has so far provided financial advice and negotiation support to ove

There remains an opportunity for Northern Ireland to take forward long-awaited domestic abuse reforms after a Westminster setback by working to restore devolution, former justice minister Claire Sugden has told Irish Legal News. The UK Government announced earlier this summer that its Domestic Abuse

Life sentence prisoners in Ireland serve an average of 17-and-a-half years in custody, according to the latest figures from the Parole Board. The Parole Board reviewed 122 prisoners over the course of 2018 and recommended seven long-sentence prisoners for reviewable temporary release, according to i