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The Irish Refugee Council has launched three new information resources. They are:

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Letter excerpts read in Senate accuse Australian Human Rights Commission of mistreating staff who support Palestine

Specialist litigation funder Nera Capital, which has an office in Dublin, has appointed Robin Grant as its new chief financial officer. A chartered accountant, Mr Grant has gained extensive UK and international experience with large firms through to start-ups.

As an aspiring legal professional, securing an internship can be a critical step in your career journey. It offers the chance to gain practical experience, build your professional network and develop essential skills.

Foreign cybercriminals could be extradited as part of a crackdown on the rise in young people being targeted for sextortion – the practice of blackmailing them over sexual images. Gangs, often based in west Africa, trick teenagers into sending intimate pictures of themselves to fraudsters who

Increasing deadly attacks against Rohingya people in Myanmar’s Rakhine State bear a "terrifying resemblance" to the atrocities of August 2017, Amnesty International said ahead of the seventh anniversary of the crisis. “As the seven-year anniversary of the Rohingya crisis nears, the horri

A man who was wrongly convicted of the murder of a judge's daughter in Northern Ireland appealed directly to British prime minister, Harold Wilson, in 1969, a new file reveals. Iain Hay Gordon, from Glasgow, was found “guilty but insane” over the murder of Patricia Curran in 1952.

The Post Office has paid lawyers a quarter of a billion pounds in legal fees over the Horizon scandal, close to the amount given to victims. The state body paid out £256.9 million to 15 law firms and two barristers’ chambers between September 2014 and March 2024, according a freedom of i

James Douglas, executive director of Irish Rule of Law International (IRLI) has passed away. The Bar of Ireland stated: "James' work with IRLI, and in particular the projects across the African Continent, and before that South East Asia, was hugely regarded and impactful.

Addleshaw Goddard Ireland has announced it will move to a new office premises at Fitzwilliam No.28 in January 2025. The international law firm announced earlier this year that revenue at its Dublin office has increased by 45 per cent over the past two years. Located on Dublin’s Georgian mile,

A man whose head was bleeding after a hair transplant was arrested after refusing to leave a plane. Eugenio Ernesto Hernandez-Garnier and his female companion were removed from the aircraft at Miami airport, local media reports.

Hundreds of members of Afghanistan's security forces have been dismissed by the morality police for failing to grow beards. The Taliban's Ministry for the Prevention of Vice and Propagation of Virtue fired the beardless men – who are among 13,000 people who have been detained for immoral acts

An appeal by a 99-year-old woman convicted of being an accessory to the murder of 10,505 people when she was secretary to the SS commander of the Nazis’ Stutthof concentration camp has been rejected. Germany's Federal Court of Justice upheld the conviction of Irmgard Furchner, who was given a

Secret court hearings are in need of reform, a former lord chief justice of England and Wales has said. Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd said that the single justice procedure (SJP) is unfair.

The Midland Solicitors Bar Association in conjunction with the Courts Service held an event in Mullingar Courthouse to commemorate the late solicitor and poet Vicky McCarthy Keane, who passed away from motor neurone disease.