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International human rights lawyer and author Professor Philippe Sands KC will deliver FLAC's annual justice lecture this evening. Professor Sands will launch his latest book, The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain’s Colonial Legacy, at the lecture, which is held in memory of Dav

A former lieutenant in the Irish Defence Forces was forcibly retired in 1969 on foot of a fundamentally flawed and unfair process and not in accordance with law, a review has found. Niall Beirne SC was appointed in May 2020 to review the case of Donal de Róiste, who was retired by President &

Denmark's outright ban on adoption in the context of a commercial surrogacy agreement violated the rights of two children born to a surrogate mother, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled.

A one-year-old puppy managed to make multiple online purchases in the video game Watch Dogs with its owner’s credit card.

A right-wing judge was among those arrested on suspicion of plotting to storm the Reichstag and overthrow the German government.

A scheme designed to bring 500 people from Afghanistan to Ireland has been criticised after the first tranche of just 22 approvals was issued nearly a year after it was set up.

A charity cycle sponsored by RDJ has raised more than €26,000 for Marymount University Hospital and Hospice.

A brand-new moot court facility has been officially opened by Northern Ireland’s Lady Chief Justice, Dame Siobhan Keegan, at Ulster University’s new Belfast campus. One of several specialist learning spaces on the expanded city centre campus, the moot court will be open for use by the un

Legislation providing for official recognition of the Irish language in Northern Ireland for the first time has received royal assent. The Identity and Language (Northern Ireland) Bill grants official status to the Irish language as part of a package of measures to promote and respect Northern Irela

Seven local authorities have been asked to prepare and implement an equality and action plan on the provision of Traveller accommodation and services. The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission is making the request of local authorities in South Dublin, Limerick City and County, Tipperary, Doneg

Cork solicitor Emma Meagher Neville has been elected as president of the Southern Law Association (SLA) for 2023. Ms Neville succeeds Gerard O'Flynn in the top role and will be supported by John Fuller as vice-president following elections at the association's recent AGM, which was attended by the L

Will Carmody has been named as the new managing partner of Mason Hayes & Curran, taking the reins from Declan Black on 1 January 2023. Mr Carmody joined the firm in 2002 and has been head of its financial services department since 2018 and a member of its senior management group since 2020. He a

A police chief who flashed her badge after being stopped for riding a golf cart on the street has been forced to resign. Mary O'Connor, head of the police force in Tampa, Florida's third-largest city, was the passenger in a golf cart that was pulled over last month for driving on a road without a li

Facebook owner Meta is set to be told it cannot force users of its services to agree to personalised ads in what privacy campaigners have said will be a "huge blow to Meta's profits in the EU". The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) yesterday said it had adopted three binding decisions addressing

Legislation creating protest-free buffer zones around abortion clinics in Northern Ireland is compatible with European human rights laws, the UK Supreme Court has unanimously ruled. The Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) Bill was referred to the court in May by the Attorney General for Northern I