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A man caught on video scratching his and his girlfriend's name into the Colosseum has told prosecutors he had no idea how old it was. Bristol man Ivan Danailov Dimitrov, 27, etched "Ivan + Hayley 23" into one of the walls of the nearly 2,000-year-old monument using a key, the BBC reports.

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Proposed new garda powers to track vehicles using automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) technology should be subject to judicial oversight, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) and Digital Rights Ireland have said. The NGOs have sent legislators a list of proposed amendments to the An Ga

Meta's new social media app Threads, widely seen as a rival to Twitter, has been launched in the US and the UK but is not yet available in Ireland or the rest of the EU due to regulatory concerns. Threads, a text-based spin-off from Instagram, is now available in more than 100 countries — but

Three in 10 employers do not have a flexible working policy in place, and more than a quarter do not have a remote working policy, according to a recent survey of HR professionals by Mason Hayes & Curran LLP. The business law firm surveyed more than 500 attendees, working across the public and p

Solicitor and mediator Bill Holohan SC has been presented with a certificate of appreciation by the Indian Ambassador to Ireland, Akhilesh Mishra. Mr Holohan received the certificate following an event on mediation and alternative dispute resolution, hosted by the Indian Embassy as part of the India

A judge who posted TikTok videos lip-syncing to rap songs with explicit lyrics while wearing his judicial robes is facing disciplinary action. Judge Gary N. Wilcox, a criminal judge in New Jersey, USA, posted around 40 videos under the alias "Sal Tortorella" over a two-year period from 2021 to 2023,

An "ambitious" target to make 1,000 initial asylum decisions per month by next spring is at the centre of new government plans to modernise Ireland's international protection system. The International Protection Modernisation Programme 2023–2024, published by justice minister Helen McEntee yes

Paul McCutcheon has joined RDJ as partner and head of housing, bringing with him a team of lawyers with extensive experience in residential developments. With more than two decades of commercial real estate experience, Mr McCutcheon specialises in advising developer clients in all aspects of the acq

LK Shields has appointed corporate partner Jennifer McGuire as the firm's new head of mergers and acquisitions. A partner in the firm since 2012, Ms McGuire is an experienced adviser to Irish and international public and private companies and private shareholders on all aspects of corporate and comm

Northern Ireland's strategic framework for ending violence against women and girls (EVAWG) has gone out for public consultation. The 56-page document, developed by representatives from across government and wider society, includes a commitment to delivering "a justice system which has the confidence

Australian sports law expert Professor Jack Anderson will speak on concussion litigation at a free CPD event hosted by the Sports Law Bar Association (SLBA) tomorrow. Professor Anderson is on leave as professor and director of sports law studies at the University of Melbourne. He is currently acting

Legislation providing for the establishment of a new Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) has competed its final stages in the Seanad and is likely to soon become law. The Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022, which represents the most significant reforms to the judicial appointments process

Anti-abortion protests will be banned outside abortion clinics in Northern Ireland by September 2023, the Department of Health has said. The Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) Act (Northern Ireland) 2023 was one of the last pieces of legislation approved by MLAs shortly before the Northern Irelan

Dr Charles O'Sullivan has joined Maynooth University School of Law and Criminology as an assistant professor in law. He previously completed his PhD at Maynooth before joining the faculty at Dublin City University and later Ulster University.