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The Law Society of Ireland has invited schools to sign up for an initiative that gives students the opportunity to learn about the law and explore a future career as a solicitor. Over 2,000 students participated in the Law Society Legal Ambitions course — an innovative Transition Year (TY) mod

The outcome of inquiries held by the new Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal (LPDT) are now being published online. The tribunal, which examines complaints of misconduct referred by the Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) and the Law Society of Ireland, began holding hearings in mid-202

Australia is to ban under-16s from social media platforms in a bid to protect young people from online harms. The Australian government yesterday introduced the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024, which will require social media platforms to take reasonable steps to prevent

The UK Supreme Court has ruled that a Russian trustee in bankruptcy could not claim a property in London owned by a bankrupt Russian citizen due to the operation of the principle of immoveable property rights being solely determined by the laws of the country they are located in. Appellant Lyubov Ki

Pop singer Katy Perry has won a 15-year-long trade mark dispute with a fashion designer called Katie Perry. The American pop star — whose real name is Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson — launched the legal action in 2009 after Australian woman Katie Jane Taylor, née Perry, registered "Kat

The Irish government has defended the "independence and impartiality" of the International Criminal Court (ICC) after it issued arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders. Judges in The Hague said yesterday they have concluded that there are reasonable grounds to believe that Israeli prime minist

Rough sleeping and begging would be decriminalised in Northern Ireland under plans put out for consultation. Justice minister Naomi Long is seeking views from the public on the repeal of section 4 of the Vagrancy Act 1824, which criminalises rough sleeping, and section 3 of the Vagrancy (Irelan

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Detained Palestinian rights lawyer wins press freedom award | The New Arab

The publisher of the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday was wrongly forced to pay excessive costs after losing privacy and defamation proceedings in the UK, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled. Associated Newspapers Limited suffered a violation of its rights under Article 10 (freedom

The Central Bank of Ireland has imposed a fine of over €320,000 on a payments company which breached EU regulations. BlueSnap Payment Services Ireland Limited breached the requirements of the European Union (Payment Services) Regulations 2018 (the PSR 2018) between January 2021 and December 202

The next government must take further action to protect children online, the Children's Rights Alliance has said. In a statement marking World Children's Day yesterday, the NGO welcomed the coming into force of Ireland's new online safety code, but said it did not go far enough to achieve child safe

The Law Society of Ireland will host a special pre-election webinar tomorrow to discuss how issues of justice and law reform have featured in the campaign. Law Society director-general Mark Garrett will be joined by panellists including The Irish Times political editor Pat Leahy, Irish Independent c

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant. In a significant decision announced today, the court's Pre-Trial Chamber I said there were reasonable grounds to believe that the pair were respon

Cleaver Fulton Rankin has welcomed four solicitors and a new HR manager. The Northern Ireland firm has recruited Rebecca Russell as HR manager and newly-qualified solicitor Caitriona Fitzpatrick to its banking and finance department.

US government lawyers have asked a judge to order Google owner Alphabet to sell its Chrome web browser and potentially also its Android mobile operating system. The US Department of Justice has proposed the remedies to Judge Amit Mehta following his ruling in August, in which he declared that Google