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Complainants in rape cases will only have their phones taken by police for evidential purposes “when absolutely necessary”, the solicitor general is to say. Alex Chalk QC will say today that police will be ordered to retained detailed written explanations and justifications for when they

Volkswagen has agreed to settle for £193 million with more than 90,000 UK car owners after the manufacturer installed “defeat devices” to beat anti-pollution tests. Slater and Gordon announced yesterday that the Volkswagen Group and the claimants had reached an out of court settlem

An occult club has been knocked back from affiliation to a student union after concerns were raised that it could summon the devil onto campus. Adelaide University Union's clubs committee rejected the affiliation request from Adelaide University Occult Club after receiving the bizarre complaint, ABC

International law firm Bird & Bird has appointed data protection, IP and technology specialists Deirdre Kilroy and Anna Morgan as its first partners in Dublin. The firm's new office in Ireland will be based in George's Dock, close to Dublin’s tech hub Grand Canal Dock, and will officially

Over 150 solicitors attended the Children Order Conference at the Crowne Hotel in Belfast, which took place this year for the first time since the pandemic.

A centuries-old ban on the use of the Irish language in the Northern Ireland courts will be repealed under language legislation introduced to Westminster today. The Identity and Language (Northern Ireland) Bill will grant official status to the Irish language as part of a package of measures to prom

Newtownards solicitor Charles E. Stewart, director at Stewarts Solicitors, has passed away following a long illness. Mr Stewart qualified as a solicitor in 1972. Less than two years later, he took over the legal practice run by his father and founded by his great-grandfather in 1902.

Dublin-based commercial law firm Leman Solicitors LLP has become Ogier Leman after joining forces with international law firm Ogier earlier this year. The combined firm offers services to Irish clients across corporate, real estate, dispute resolution and employment law, with an international networ

Dentons has extended its flexible working trial until the end of next year, The Lawyer reports. The firm's policy, called You Choose, gives partners and staff the freedom to decide where they want to work.

Ministers have agreed to a further 12-month renewal of the legislation underpinning the prosecution of terrorism and organised crime offences in the non-jury Special Criminal Court. The long-term future of the laws are currently being considered by an independent review group headed by Mr Justice Mi

Draft legislation published today by the UK's justice secretary Dominic Raab will pave the way for the first ever "Victims Law" in England and Wales. The Victims Bill will see complainants’ views sought at regular points during their case, with greater accountability placed on agencies such as

Digital driving licences used by millions of Australians are remarkably easy to falsify without detection, researchers have found. Since 2019, motorists in New South Wales (NSW) have been able to use a smartphone app to prove their identity to police or when buying alcohol in shops and restaurants,

A&L Goodbody LLP (ALG) has appointed Enda O'Keeffe as a partner in the firm's construction and engineering group. Mr O'Keeffe is an expert in the avoidance, management and resolution of construction disputes. He is a trusted commercial advisor to a number of top-tier entities in the construction

Government plans to exclude representatives of the legal professions from the proposed Judicial Appointments Commission will have "an extraordinary negative impact", the Law Society of Ireland has said. Responding to the recent publication of the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill, Law Society pr

Over 200 members of the legal profession in Northern Ireland joined colleagues for the return of the Legal Walk/Run through Belfast city centre in aid of Leukaemia & Lymphoma NI.