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Mr Justice Denis McDonald and former CJEU advocate-general Anthony Collins are to be appointed to the Court of Appeal and former Bar Council chairperson Sara Phelan SC is to join the High Court bench. The nominations, along with those of three new District Court judges, were agreed by ministers yest

Nine national public authorities have been given responsibility for protecting fundamental rights under the EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act. The public authorities are An Coimisiún Toghcháin, Coimisiún na Meán, the Data Protection Commission, the Environmental Protect

An English court has reserved judgment on how to handle dozens of divorces which were finalised in error. Final divorce orders were granted between April 2022 and April 2024 in 79 cases where online submissions were received a day earlier than allowed by law, the High Court in London heard yesterday

A rare copyright exemption has been granted by US authorities to allow McDonald's restaurants to repair their notoriously unreliable McFlurry machines. Franchise owners have complained that the machines have a "digital lock" preventing third-party repairs from being carried out.

The Irish government has been threatened with legal action over its alleged military trade and co-operation with Israel. A legal opinion produced by human rights lawyer Darragh Mackin for campaign group Uplift argues that the government may be at risk of violating a number of domestic, EU and intern

The regulatory body for English solicitors is facing enforcement action in connection with the dramatic closure of Axiom Ince following a damning independent review carried out by Carson McDowell. Around £60 million in client money was missing and around 1,400 people lost their jobs when Axiom

Barrister and ex-journalist Peter Hamilton has passed away at the age of 31. Mr Hamilton unexpectedly died on Monday, according to The Irish Times, where he worked for three-and-a-half years as a business journalist.

Technical discussions have concluded on an agreement which will allow for closer co-operation between the UK and EU's competition authorities. The proposed agreement will be a 'supplementing agreement' to the post-Brexit EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), which explicitly foresaw the possi

The High Court has quashed a decision by An Bord Pleanála to grant planning permission for 55 residential units in a backland/greenfield site off St Patrick's Road in Limerick. Michelle Hayes of Limerick firm Hayes Solicitors represented local residents in a legal challenge to the proposed de

The new headquarters of Northern Ireland's Youth Justice Agency (YJA) have been officially opened. Naomi Long, the justice minister, yesterday cut the ribbon at the new facilities at Charles House, Donegall Street, Belfast, which will also house the Youth Justice Services Belfast Area Team.

Lawyers have been told to pay out over €470,000 in compensation and refunds since the Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) began handling complaints five years ago, a new report reveals. The LSRA today published its second bi-annual complaints report of 2024 and the 10th since the LSRA to

Transition Year students have been invited to enter the Law Society of Ireland's 2025 Gráinne O'Neill Memorial Legal Essay Competition. To enter, students are asked to submit a 1,500-word essay examining "the role the law can play in addressing hate crime" by Friday 22 November.

Tesco is to pay £45,000 to a former part-time employee who brought a complaint of sexual harassment and victimisation with support from the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland. Lara Storey, a former part-time Dotcom Personal Shopper, claimed that she had been subjected to sexual harassmen

A Russian court has slapped Google with a fine of around $20 decillion – thousands of times more than the entire world's GDP. The preposterous penalty arises from a years-long court case brought by Russian TV channels which have been banned from YouTube since 2020, partly as a result of US san

The Irish government has joined international condemnation of Israeli legislation targeting the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). Irish Legal News last week interviewed Philippa Greer, the head of UNRWA's field legal office in Gaza, who spoke abo