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A police officer who screamed that he had been shot and immediately began returning fire towards a handcuffed suspect, when in reality he was over-reacting to the innocuous sound of a falling acorn, has resigned. Bodycam footage which has gone viral on social media shows US police officer Jesse Hern

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Artificial intelligence and facial recognition expert Dr Nessa Lynch has joined University College Cork (UCC) as the Matheson lecturer in law, innovation and technology. Based at the School of Law, the lectureship will enhance expertise in law and technology at the university.

A legislative provision criminalising the possession of drugs should be immediately repealed following the conclusion of the Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use, a group of Oireachtas members has said. Senator Lynn Ruane, TDs Neasa Hourigan and Aodhán Ó Ríordáin and a number

The judge who decided against punishing three women who displayed a parachute image at a protest recently liked a social media post that described Israel as a "terrorist" and called for a "free Palestine". Tan Ikram CBE, 58, deputy senior district judged, liked the LinkedIn post by a barrister three

Tughans has been ranked as Northern Ireland's most prolific M&A adviser for the ninth year in a row. The Belfast-based law firm advised on 50 of the 263 transactions recorded in 2023, according to the latest Experian M&A report.

Flynn O'Driscoll LLP has again been ranked as Ireland's most prolific M&A adviser, advising last year on the highest number of deals in Ireland's busiest year of M&A activity on record. Ireland bucked a global trend for declining deal activity with a total of 789 deals in 2023, marginally mo

A man who started a relationship with the wife of a Chinese soldier has been sentenced to nearly a year in prison. Chinese law provides for penalties of up to three years' imprisonment for knowingly beginning a relationship with the spouse of a serving People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldier.

Holiday park operator Pontins has been ordered by Britain's equality watchdog to stop unlawfully discriminating against Irish Travellers, including by rejecting guests with Irish names and accents. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has served the company with an unlawful act notice aft

Barrister-at-law students at the King's Inns have won the 2024 National Negotiation Competition hosted by the Law Society of Ireland. The team of Catey Clarkson and Shane Molony, coached by Conor Duff BL, secured a second consecutive win for the King's Inns and will now go on to represent Ireland at

Hogan Lovells has appointed Sinéad Meany, former head of legal at the Bank of England, as a regulatory lawyer and head of thought leadership. Ms Meany, who is dual-qualified in England and Wales and in Ireland, joins the firm's financial institutions and insurance sector group in London and w

An English judge faces jail after being convicted of involvement in a scheme to defraud almost £2 million from the legal aid system. Rasib Ghaffar, 54, a barrister and part-time immigration tribunal judge, conspired to inflate legal fees and work claimed for in 2011 and 2012 together with Gazi

A pilot scheme providing free independent legal advice to complainants in serious sexual offence cases in Northern Ireland has been extended for a further year until March 2025. The Department of Justice launched the pilot scheme in April 2021, less than a year before the collapse of the Northern Ir

Ireland has signed the Ljubljana-Hague Convention, the first major treaty in the field of international criminal law since the Rome Statute which established the International Criminal Court (ICC). The Convention, agreed last year by 68 states, sets out new duties and obligations of states to co-ope

A special Oireachtas committee will be established by April to consider the recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said. The assembly published its final report in January, setting out 36 recommendations for a new Irish model to reduce the harm caused by i