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Mason Hayes & Curran has published a legal review spotlighting updates to EU consumer protection and product safety law. Now in its fourth year of publication, this edition of the law firm's Products & Consumer Protection Review analyses key developments shaping the sector.

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The Irish government is seeking views on EU proposals to improve the working conditions of trainees. The European Commission's proposed Traineeships Directive aims to improve and better enforce working conditions of trainees and to combat employment relationships disguised as traineeships.

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Around 75,000 convictions for fare evasion are expected to be quashed in England and Wales after a court ruled that train operators had brought unlawful prosecutions. Lawyers for Greater Anglia and Northern Trains apologised to Westminster Magistrates' Court last week, saying they acknowledged the e

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Ryanair has won a US court case against online travel agency Booking.com, which it accused of accessing its website without authorisation in order to offer Ryanair flight tickets to its customers. A jury in Delaware District Court unanimously found on Friday in favour of Ryanair's claims that Bookin

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A woman who fell out with her then-boyfriend after a Coldplay concert has been ordered by a tribunal to repay him for the cost of her ticket. The Civil Resolution Tribunal in British Columbia, Canada rejected arguments that the $450 CAD (around €300 or £250) ticket was a gift and held it

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The Irish Prison Service has issued an urgent nationwide drug alert over lethal nitazene. Analysis by the HSE National Drug Treatment Centre Laboratory has confirmed the presence of a "nitazene-type substance" associated with overdoses in Irish prisons, one of which is fatal.

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Interim death certificates can be issued to families before the conclusion of a coroner's inquest under legislative reforms now signed into law. The Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2024 also enables families to register births and deaths online for the first time. The new online se

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A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Hamas and other groups committed war crimes on 7 October, says HRW

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A journalist has been ordered to pay €5,000 to Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni after mocking her height on social media. Giulia Cortese, 36, was found guilty of defamation after a 2021 post in which she described Meloni as four feet tall.

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