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The UK government's deeply controversial legacy bill has received royal assent and become law. The Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act will establish a new Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery (ICRIR) and offer immunity to certain people who co-ope

Post Office workers who have had their convictions for theft and false accounting reversed will be offered compensation of £600,000 each, the UK government has said. There are suspicions that evidence from defective accounting software might have influenced approximately 700 prosecutions of br

An artist who was given nearly €70,000 in cash for an art project but then returned two blank canvasses he titled Take the Money and Run has been ordered to repay the sum. Danish artist Jens Haaning was expected to physically incorporate the banknotes totalling 500,000 kroner (nearly €70,0

The Irish government should establish an inquiry into the abuse suffered by the six men who were wrongly accused in connection with the Sallins train robbery in the 1970s, four human rights organisations have said. The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL), the Committee on the Administration of

Belfast-based MKB Law has welcomed Rachel McBrinn, Michael Murphy and Caitlin Mulholland as the firm's trainee solicitors for 2023. Ms McBrinn has worked with the firm as a paralegal since October 2022, shortly after she graduated from Queen's University Belfast. She works in the employment law team

Former Northern Ireland justice minister and Alliance Party leader Naomi Long is no longer her party's justice spokesperson after handing the role back to Stewart Dickson in a frontbench reshuffle. Mrs Long served as justice minister from January 2020 until October 2022, including several months in

The Corporate Enforcement Authority (CEA) has appointed Rebecca Coen as director of criminal enforcement. Ms Coen joins the white collar crime agency from the Law Reform Commission, where she was director of research from 2020 onwards. She fills the vacancy created after previous director Suzanne Gu

Barrister Gillian O'Hanlon has joined the Irish Legal News team as our newest case reporter. Her appointment comes as the beginning of the new legal term approaches and follows the appointment of Killian Flood BL as our new features writer.

More than a dozen judicial review challenges to the UK government's controversial legacy bill have been lodged in the Northern Ireland courts. The Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill, which aims to end criminal prosecutions and civil cases linked to the Troubles, is awaiting r

An Bord Pleanála has refused planning permission for a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the Shannon estuary. The proposed €650 million project "would be contrary to current government policy, and in the absence of such policy support... would be contrary to the proper pla

Energy professionals do not believe that Ireland will meet it target to create 5GW of new offshore wind by 2030, according to a new survey by Mason Hayes & Curran. The business law firm polled nearly 200 industry professionals at its annual energy conference, this year taking place in Cork, and

Global law firm Clyde & Co has partnered with Belfast Exposed to exhibit photographs of Northern Ireland life throughout the years in its new offices at Centrepoint, Ormeau Avenue. Photos from Belfast Exposed's archive programme represent changes in Northern Ireland's social and cultural landsca

An English Court of Appeal judge has endorsed the use of ChatGPT but sounded a note of caution on using AI in areas beyond one's expertise. Lord Justice Birss admitted to incorporating content generated by the AI chatbot into a judgment. He described it as "jolly useful" for providing a concise summ

California has filed a lawsuit against major oil and gas companies, alleging that they misled the public regarding the dangers associated with fossil fuels in one of a deluge of climate cases being brought around the world. The legal action also calls for the establishment of a fund, underwritten by

The owner of a surfing python has been fined after breaching the strict conditions of his animal permit. Higor Fiuza was filmed longboarding with three-year-old carpet python Shiva off Australia's Gold Coast in footage which went viral on social media this month, ABC reports.