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TikTok has lost a battle over a preliminary issue in its appeal against a £12.7 million fine imposed by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). The First-tier Tribunal has confirmed that the ICO had the power to issue a monetary penalty notice (MPN) to TikTok in April 2023.

The European Commission has published its sixth annual rule of law report, examining rule of law developments in all member states. For a second year, the report does not just cover the EU's 27 member states but also includes chapters dedicated to developments in Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia

A joint statement from the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland has raised concerns over the UK government's welfare reform plans. The two commissions are responsible for monitoring the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons

Government plans to tackle so-called SLAPPs are likely to be "impotent in practice" and could see Ireland hauled before the EU courts, legal experts and more than two dozen civil society organisations have warned. The Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024, which includes anti-SLAPP provisions alongside i

Half of all awards by the Injuries Resolution Board were accepted last year, with €76 million estimated to have been saved in legal costs, according to a new report. A total of €168 million was awarded in compensation during 2024, with acceptance rates increasing to 50 per cent from 48 per

At least 13 people are thought to have taken their own lives as a result of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, while at least 59 more contemplated suicide, according to the first report from the public inquiry into what has been described as the worst miscarriage of justice in UK legal history. The

Thousands of defendants in England and Wales could lose the automatic right to have their cases heard by a jury under sweeping reforms proposed by a senior judge aiming to ease a record court backlog. Sir Brian Leveson, the former Court of Appeal judge who led the government-commissioned review, has

The Department of Social Protection has launched High Court proceedings seeking to overturn a finding that it breached the GDPR in relation to the requirement for public services card (PSC) applicants to provide their biometric data. The Data Protection Commission (DPC) last month imposed an adminis

Seized criminal assets will be sold after just two years instead of seven years in a major reform of Ireland's civil asset forfeiture laws. The Proceedings of Crime and Related Matters Bill 2025 approved by ministers yesterday will make the most significant changes to proceeds of crime legislation s

Court of Appeal judge Mr Justice Michael MacGrath has been appointed to chair a new commission of investigation into historical sexual abuse in all day and boarding schools. The establishment of the commission of investigation follows a scoping inquiry which was told of 2,395 allegations of historic

A lawyer who left a hurried note on another lawyer's car after "dinging" it was entering into a binding contract to pay them, a tribunal has ruled. Carly Peddle wrote and left a note which read "I dinged your back passenger door / happy to pay for!" after accidentally denting Richard Brooks' car doo

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for the Taliban's supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, and chief justice, Abdul Hakim Haqqani. Judges yesterday said there were reasonable grounds to suspect both men have committed the crime against humanity of persecution on gend

Sean Gillane SC is to be appointed to the High Court and seven lawyers to the District Court in the first judicial appointments since the introduction of the new Judicial Appointments Commission.

Around one in four women in Irish prisons are Travellers and urgent action is needed to rectify the "completely untenable situation", prison reform campaigners have said. The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) highlighted the "persistent over-representation" of T

Belfast firm Phoenix Law and a legal adviser with the Children's Law Centre in Northern Ireland were among winners at the 2025 Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year (LALY) awards in London. The Legal Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG) in England and Wales organises the annual awards ceremony, now in its 23rd yea