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Facebook has succeeded in its appeal against an award of £20,000 in compensation, which the High Court held it was liable to pay to a convicted sex offender for misuse of private information. In finding that Facebook could only be held liable for a limited 10-day period in which information about t

Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire The Northern Ireland Assembly is set to be dissolved from Thursday 26 January ahead of an early election on Thursday 2 March.

Freda Grealy More Irish law schools are signing up for the Law Society of Ireland's successful Street Law programme, the Irish Examiner reports.

The lifetime ban on blood donation by men who have sex with men (MSM) was lifted yesterday. Under the new rules, a man who last had sex with another man more than 12 months ago will now be able to donate blood if he meets the other blood donor selection criteria.

The number of Northern Ireland businesses brought before the Industrial Tribunal increased by 28 per cent last year, The Irish News reports. Figures released following a Freedom of Information (FOI) request show 3,030 cases were brought in the year to 31 March 2016, relating to unfair dismissal, wag

Dublin solicitor Barry Lyons is being pursued in court by AIB, who are seeking a €4.7 million judgment over alleged unpaid loans, The Irish Times reports. Mr Justice Brian McGovern has transferred the proceedings to the Commercial Court with Mr Lyons' consent.

Matthew Jury, managing partner at McCue & Partners Lawyers acting for the families of the three off-duty Scottish soldiers who were killed by the Provisional IRA in 1971 have threatened legal action to bring their killers to justice.

High Court judge Mr Justice Seamus Noonan has blamed "misinformation" for a series of judicial review applications which he dismissed yesterday. According to The Irish Times, Mr Justice Noonan dismissed several similar applications for a judicial review of repossession orders issued by Circuit Court

A woman who alleged that she was raped by two professional footballers has been awarded £100,000 damages in the first case of its kind in Scotland. A judge in the Court of Session ruled that both Scotland international David Goodwillie and his former Dundee United teammate David Robertson took adva

in the cartel during that period, the Commission considered that most of the proposed reductions were no longer appropriate for the period 1993-2004. The change in position of the Roullier group explains why it cannot rely on the principle of the protection of legitimate expectations regarding main

The drunk driver who killed Enda Dolan, the 18-year-old first-year architecture student at Queen's University, has had his sentence increased by two years after the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) challenged the overly generous mitigation in the man’s sentencing. In a reference by the DPP un

Northern Ireland's power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive has collapsed, making fresh elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly inevitable. It follows the resignation last Tuesday of deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, who said he was resigning because First Minister Arlene Foster would not

Finance Minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir Northern Ireland's Finance Minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir has announced plans to challenge laws preventing the use of the Irish language in Northern Ireland courts.

A former solicitor from Co Monaghan has been sentenced to three and a half years in jail after stealing €850,000 from his clients. Paul Madden pleaded guilty in Monaghan Circuit Court to 16 offences under the Criminal Justice Theft and Fraud Offences Act over the period between 2006 and 2013.

Nominations will open this afternoon for the sixth annual AIB Private Banking Irish Law Awards. Firms and individuals can self-nominate or be nominated by external parties across almost 30 categories, some of which are new this year.