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A round-up of human rights stories from around the world.

A woman who fell beside a "wet floor" sign at a casino has been awarded $3 million in compensation. Lynda Sadowski walked towards a collapsed sign at a Jack Casino and tripped over it, her attorney Matt Nakajima said.

The flexibility of the British constitution, once thought to be such a strength, has played a large part in destroying the country. In this edited version of a recent lecture delivered in Cambridge, Professor Conor Gearty (LSE) explains why he now believes more than ever that only the experience of

The Electricity Supply Board have been granted an order directing a property arbitrator to state a case on a point of law to the High Court. Finding that the question raised by ESB regarding landowners being “doubly compensated” for the construction of electric lines was a "real and sign

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has welcomed the passing of the Civil Law (Presumption of Death) Bill. The new law - which provides for the establishment of a register of presumed deaths - aims to help provide some closure for the families of missing persons.

A juror who failed to appear at the High Court following a lunch break has become the subject of an arrest warrant, The Irish Times reports. The woman failed to appear on Tuesday to hear a defamation action by Turf Club head of security Chris Gordon against the Irish Racehorse Trainers Association (

There have been mistakes in calculating the sentences to be served by almost three per cent of prisoners, the Irish Independent reports. The Irish Prison Service (IPS) commissioned a Sentence Calculation Review Programme, which has revealed the mistakes in the period of detention of 46 inmates.

A judge will decide on Monday whether a newspaper editor is responsible for a front page story during the Ana Kriegel murder trial that led to his newspaper being barred from reporting the court proceedings. Associated News (Ireland) Ltd, owners of the Daily Mail newspaper, accepted its responsibili

The long standing test concerning the legal possession of land has been challenged in the landmark case of Thorpe v Frank [2019] EWCA Civ 150, writes Stuart Nevin, associate, A&L Goodbody. The Court of Appeal found that repaving a forecourt was enough to obtain possession in a claim for ‘a

Far greater numbers of prison officers are injured by inmates than was previously thought, a new recording system has shown. Figures from the Irish Prison Service on ‘restraint interventions’ indicate that there were 137 incidents in 2018, as compared to 91 in 2017, when recording of the

Cleaver Fulton Rankin has conducted research into the positive contribution the firm and its employees make in wider society. As a result it has launched its first Responsible Business Report highlighting the firm's commitment to the environment, its clients and the wider community.

Thieves who broke into the cellar of a luxury restaurant in Paris have stolen 150 bottles of wine estimated to be worth hundreds of thousands of euros. Staff at the Maison Rostang restaurant, which has two Michelin stars and is described by the food guide as having a “magnificent” wine l

A man who was awarded €96,403 in personal injury proceedings against Tallaght Hospital has had his award upheld by the Supreme Court. The hospital argued that the claim was statute barred in circumstances where the hospital’s omission to carry out a CT scan occurred in 2007, and the perso

A detective imprisoned for harassing a State solicitor by sending abusive letters and emails has had her sentence suspended. Eve Doherty, 51, had the remainder of her three-year sentence suspended by the Court of Appeal.

New powers have been given to the Residential Tenancies Board to deal with improper conduct by landlords under the Residential Tenancies Act, the Irish Examiner reports. The board can now investigate and sanction landlords directly in cases where residential tenancy law is being breached in respect