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Changes to the way Companies House collects data on directors is severely hampering the ability of investigative and business journalists to hold businesses to account and expose frauds and crooks, the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has said. Company directors are no longer required to provider

Ireland's food safety watchdog has recalled a batch of CBD oil that was found to be psychoactive. CBD oil – short for cannabidiol oil – can be legally sold in Ireland despite being derived from cannabis, as it does not contain the plant's psychoactive component, THC (tetrahydrocannabinol

The Supreme Court has overturned a finding that a significant proportion of discovery sought by a man in personal injury proceedings against the Minister for Defence was premature. Finding that the State had failed to discharge its onus to demonstrate that alternative procedural measures could achie

Mr Justice Michael Twomey will launch the 18th Volume of the Hibernian Law Journal at the Law Society of Ireland next week. The High Court judge, who has served as the Journal's judge-in-residence since last October, will chair the launch on Tuesday 23 July in the Blue Room at Blackhall Place.

Law firm TLT has reported a seven per cent rise in turnover from £82 million in 2017/18 to £87.6 million this year, representing an increase of nearly 50 per cent over the last five years. The firm said its financial performance this year has been underpinned by success in several of its

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan will today seek Cabinet approval to oppose plans to end daylight savings time across the European Union, according to reports. Mr Flanagan will tell his Government colleagues that the move could lead to Northern Ireland and the Republic being in different time zones

The son and daughter of a man who was murdered in Co Tipperary in 2011 have launched personal injury proceedings against his convicted killer in the High Court. Patrick Quirke, 50, was jailed in May after jurors at the Central Criminal Court found him guilty of the murder of Bobby Ryan, 52, by a maj

A schoolteacher who launched a sex discrimination case against her employer with the support of the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland has settled the case for £5,000. Catherine McCormick, who continues to teach at the school, alleged that she was overlooked for the post of temporary hea

The newly-elected European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, has backed the introduction of a new EU-wide mechanism to guarantee the rule of law. Ms von der Leyen, who just stood down as German defence minister, was elected to the top post by MEPs with a slim majority of just nine votes ye

Karyn Harty, partner in dispute resolution and litigation at McCann FitzGerald, considers the impact of defamation reform in Britain on litigation in Ireland. Earlier this year, Newsbrands Ireland, the group representing many of Ireland’s newspaper titles, launched a campaign calling for refor

The European Commission has announced the opening of a formal antitrust investigation into Amazon over its use of sensitive data from independent retailers who sell on its marketplace. The investigation will consider whether Amazon collects competitively-sensitive information about marketplace selle

A multi-million dollar damages award in favour of a man who sued Bayer after he developed cancer linked to subsidiary Monsanto's weed killer Roundup has been slashed by over two-thirds. Plaintiff Edwin Hardeman was initially awarded $75 million in punitive damages and around $5 million in compensato

Law is not universally enforceable in the way we believe it is in theory – but “does it always have to be that way?”, Edward Snowden has asked. The American whistleblower, whose revelations in 2013 exposed Britain and America’s mass spying programmes, was addressing the ORGCo

A man has been arrested on suspicion of trying to smuggle half a kilo of cocaine across continents under his wig. Police in Barcelona Airport became suspicious of the man, who had just arrived from Bogotá, Colombia, because of the size and height of his wig.

A man who sought to have his trial for criminal damage conducted in Irish, and to have this facilitated by an Irish-speaking judge, has been granted an order of certiorari quashing a District Court judge’s refusal to grant his application for an Irish-speaking judge to be assigned to his case.