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The PSNI will attempt to appeal a landmark ruling on holiday pay directly to the UK Supreme Court, according to reports. The Court of Appeal in Belfast ruled in June that PSNI officers can pursue claims for holiday pay from the date of commencement of the Working Time Regulations (NI) 1998, and are

Downing Street was yesterday forced to repudiate comments made by a Number 10 insider questioning the impartiality of Scotland's judiciary in the wake of a landmark ruling that the Prime Minister's advice to the Queen to prorogue parliament was unlawful. The Inner House of the Court of Session in Ed

The High Court bench that heard the Miller case against prorogation was essentially a constitutional court, formed without any democratic debate, an academic has said. In a letter to The Times, Professor David Campbell, of Lancaster University Law School, said of the court: "However it is styled, th

A court has ruled that an employee who died engaged in amorous congress while on a business trip was the victim of a workplace accident. The technician had been sent to Loiret in north west France and ended up sleeping with a "complete stranger".

A woman who was made redundant two weeks after she informed her employer of her pregnancy, has been awarded €55,000 in the Workplace Relations Commission. Finding that the company had failed to establish that there was no link between the woman’s pregnancy and her redundancy, Adjudication

Global law firm Walkers has announced the promotion of Eimear Keane, Ian McNamee, Niall Esler and Paddy Rath to partners in Ireland. Ms Keane has been appointed as a partner in investment funds and Mr Esler has been appointed as a partner in the regulatory and risk advisory team, while Mr McNamee an

Belfast firm Larkin Cassidy Solicitors has announced the promotion of Aoife Clayton to associate. Ms Clayton, a graduate of University College Dublin and Queen's University Belfast, joined the firm in 2012.

The Prime Minister’s advice to HM the Queen that the United Kingdom Parliament should be prorogued for five weeks in the run up to Brexit was “unlawful”, Scotland's highest civil court has ruled in a judgment whose full version will be published on Friday. Judges in the Inner House

Maynooth University Law Department has announced the appointment of Dr Lynsey Black as a criminology lecturer. Dr Black researches in the areas of gender and punishment, the death penalty, and historical criminology.

Prisoners are waiting up to two years to be admitted to the Central Mental Hospital after being assessed by psychiatrists as needing to be admitted, according to new figures. Records released to The Irish Times under Freedom of Information legislation show that 16 men and three women were trans

Plans to reintroduce a two-year post-study work visa for international students in the UK have been welcomed by universities. The Department for Education (DfE) told The Guardian that graduates will be allowed to seek work for two years after completing a course in any subject at undergraduate level

Andrea McCann, employment partner at John McKee in Belfast, looks at how employers can enforce restrictive covenants through the courts. Employees are integral to the success of all businesses. But when individuals leave to join a competing organisation or set up their own business, they do so knowi

Personal injury and road traffic accident specialist law firm JMK Solicitors has launched a student prize in conjunction with Queen's University Belfast. Over the next three academic years, the student who achieves the highest mark in the Torts module and meetings the widening access criteria set by

Dublin firm AMOSS Solicitors has welcomed six interns from DCU and NUI Galway for the next eight months.

Risk and insurance law specialists BLM, with offices in Belfast and Dublin, has warned that sporting bodies are leaving themselves vulnerable to claims of sexual misconduct by not taking the necessary steps to protect against allegations of abuse. Fintan Canavan, partner at BLM in Belfast, said orga