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A new Planning and Environmental Court with three dedicated judges has been officially launched today in a bid to speed up complex judicial reviews. Mr Justice Richard Humphreys will preside over the court, which has been established as a specialised division within the High Court and has been warml

A&L Goodbody has renewed a sponsorship deal with Ulster Rugby, with the A&L Goodbody Lounge at Kingspan Stadium continuing for a further two years.

The European Union has recorded a major milestone on the road to establishing the world's first comprehensive legal framework to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Following lengthy negotiations, the European Parliament and Council on Saturday reached a political agreement on the AI A

A man has been arrested after trying to smuggle a Prairie dog and two otters onto a plane in his underwear. The 22-year-old Taiwanese man was stopped on suspicion of concealing live animals in his clothing after he passed through an X-ray machine at Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok.

Average awards by the Personal Injuries Assessment Board (PIAB) were down by more than a third in the first full year since the introduction of the Personal Injuries Guidelines, according to its latest annual report. PIAB's average award in 2022 was €15,867, down by 34 per cent compared to 2020

Landmark reforms to the judicial appointments process are compatible with the Constitution and can become law, the Supreme Court has ruled. The Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022 was referred to the court by President Michael D. Higgins under Article 26 of the Constitution — the first

An Oireachtas committee has called on the Irish government to bring an inter-state case against the UK in the European Court of Human Rights in relation to its controversial legacy law. The Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023, which ends criminal investigations and civil c

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A man who cycled to a probation meeting in defiance of a court-ordered cycling ban has been jailed. Jake Carter, 27, twice breached a criminal behaviour order within days of its imposition by an Essex court last November, the BBC reports.

Nearly half of barristers in England and Wales have experienced or witnessed bullying, harassment and discrimination in their legal work, according to new research by the Bar Council. In the most recent survey, 44 per cent of respondents said they had experienced or observed this behaviour while wor

Cork-based Comyn Kelleher Tobin has appointed Cian Duane, Michelle Cronin and Clíona Kenny as partners in the firm. Mr Duane joins the firm as a partner in the commercial department, bringing significant experience leading commercial real estate transactions.

No prosecutions will be brought against 16 people referred by the investigation into the Provisional IRA informer codenamed "Stakeknife", Northern Ireland's Public Prosecution Service (PPS) has said. The decisions, which concern murders committed between 1981 and 1993, follow the death earlier this

There remain significant barriers to abortion access in Northern Ireland four years on from decriminalisation, according to a new report. Amnesty International's 159-page report, Legal but not local: Barriers to accessing abortion services in Northern Ireland, lays bare "the failures and wide-rangin

Ryanair has secured a permanent injunction in the High Court prohibiting a company from using bot technology to "screenscrape" the airline's website to provide ticket booking information to online travel agencies. The practice of screenscraping allows third-party online travel agencies (OTAs) to sel

The UK's former prime minister Boris Johnson yesterday lost his temper in the hot seat at the public inquiry examining the UK government's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, where he was grilled by lead counsel to the inquiry, Hugo Keith KC — but who is this distinguished barrister? The joint