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Tech giant Apple is facing criminal prosecution in France over allegations that its phones, by slowing down as they get older, fall foul of France's "planned obsolescence" laws. In 2015, France became the first country in the world to introduce legislation criminalising "planned obsolescence" - wher

Photo credit: By Tomisti - work by uploader, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Supreme Court of Finland has begun publishing part of its precedents as summaries in English.

Germany's Federal Constitutional Court has upheld a court ruling that a 96-year-old man is fit to serve a four-year jail sentence for his role in the murder of 300,000 people at Auschwitz. Oskar Gröning, known as the "Bookkeeper of Auschwitz", was an accountant at the death camp, where he sorted an

An application challenging the legality of the Regulations made to change the way in which tariffs would be calculated under the RHI Scheme has been dismissed in the High Court. Justice Colton concluded that the balance which the Regulations strike between the public and private interests is a fair

Mr Justice Brian Cregan The judge leading the inquiry into the sale of Siteserv has called for lawyers' pay to be doubled to €1,500 per day, The Irish Times reports.

Paul McDermott SC The Central Bank of Ireland has enlisted Paul Anthony McDermott SC and a team of top banking lawyers to build criminal cases against senior bankers involved in the tracker mortgage scandal, the Irish Independent reports.

Irish-based airline Ryanair has lost its defamation action in the High Court against three pilots belonging to the Ryanair Pilot Group (RPG). Evert Van Zwol, John Goss and Ted Murphy were sued over an email sent by the RPG on 12 September 2013, headlined "Pilot update, what the markets are saying ab

Ross Little The Dublin office of international legal business DWF has advised US digital media company Irish Studio on the acquisition of six consumer magazines from publishing house Harmonia.

A judge of the High Court has said he can do no more for a 17-year-old boy refusing treatment for advanced cancer, The Irish Times reports. Mr Justice Peter Kelly, president of the High Court, also refused a request from the boy's mother to force him to be treated for cancer, which the boy insists h

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has highlighted continuing improvements in the prison system at his last prison visit of the year.

Kumi Naidoo Kumi Naidoo has been named as the next secretary general of global human rights organisation Amnesty International.

A district judge has lost a case at the Court of Appeal to establish the same rights for judges as “workers”, The Brief reports. Judge Claire Gilham, whose case against the Ministry of Justice failed at the Employment Tribunal and the Employment Appeal Tribunal, has had it dismissed again.

Lord Hodge Justice of the Supreme Court, Lord Hodge, has set out the RFC 2012 judgment in its context within the developing case law on the interpretation of taxing statutes.

Maya Foa, director of Reprieve A human rights organisation has criticised the UK Prime Minister for inviting Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince to the UK as his country continues to repress and execute its own people.

Tech giant Apple is facing a class action lawsuit in the US after admitting some of its phones get slower as they get older by deliberate design. Stefan Bogdanovich and Dakota Speas, law students at University of Southern California, have filed the suit in the Central District Court of California.