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In his first speech since taking up the post in July, Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey said he will make changes to the Treasury Green Book, which guides decisions on whether public projects represent value for money. This will involve changing the discount rate to help schemes with long-term

The Animal Law Foundation is urging Northern Ireland to follow England and Wales in making clear that boiling lobsters and crabs alive while conscious is unacceptable under existing animal welfare law. Despite scientific evidence that live boiling causes severe and prolonged suffering, and legal pr

On its return from summer recess, the Committee for Justice of the Northern Ireland Assembly will continue its scrutiny of the Criminal Justice (Sentencing etc.) Bill. This is the first substantive sentencing-focused bill since the devolution of justice powers in 2010. There is much to welcome

In August 1969, members of a counter-cultural family led by Charles Manson killed some of Hollywood’s ‘beautiful people’, and others living nearby. The killers left be­hind evidence intended by them to implicate Black radi­cals and to trigger an apocalyptic race war.

The High Court decision in Sykula v O’Reilly is important, but not because it establishes that every minor road traffic accident followed by psychiatric symptoms will justify a substantial award. The judgment is narrower and, for practitioners, more useful than that. It explains why the restri

Daryl D’Art examines the defamation proceedings brought by Enoch Burke against Mediahuis Ireland Limited, examining them in the wider context of Burke’s dispute over freedom of conscience and his refusal to comply with a court order.

From ancient sages to contemporary leaders, there is broad agreement that judgement is an indispensable quality a person must possess for making good decisions. Even the staunchest AI advocates, who explain all the things which AI already can or will soon do better than humans, emphasise that human

Last month, 120 years to the day after Alfred Dreyfus was finally exonerated by a French court, a statue was unveiled outside the court that cleared him and President Macron announced that July 12 will be an annual national day of commemoration of Dreyfus and the injustice that was inflicted upon h

Ireland’s role as one of the world’s leading aircraft leasing hubs dates to 1975, when the billionaire businessman Tony Ryan founded Guinness Peat Aviation (GPA) in 1975. Ryan, of course, was also one of the co-founders of Ryanair in 1984. His venture created a pool of experienced aviati

The High Court decision in Loua v South Dublin County Council; Loua v Cavan Developments Limited and Ors is important, but not because it creates a general exception to the rule of non-feasance for every footpath damaged by tree roots writes Dalippe Lalloo.  The judgment is narrower, more

From Guatemala, a Central American country whose recent past is marked by war and volatility, comes a highly readable history of coercive adoptions and forced disappearance of children.

Geoff Andrews’ Radicals traces the working-class traditions, educational movements and moral values that shaped modern Britain and the Labour Party. This thoughtful review praises the book’s erudition and sense of loss, while questioning its limited attention to nationalism and regional

Irish Legal News presents the latest in a series of articles facilitating dialogue between criminal justice policy, practice and research. Here, Kelly Razey, a PhD Student at Queen’s University Belfast, discusses her recent research on how children in Oberstown understand and experience

The ‘Lived Realities’ Project is seeking survivors who have had experience of the offence trial process, writes Professor Susan Leahy.

As the AI boom begins to wobble with vast valuations of non-profitmaking companies now being questioned, Robert Shiels, enjoys a timely study of the world’s first global crash. Over the course of the 1850s and 1860s, during the first era of globalization, the world experienced an unprecedented