The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) is to award 24 organisations a total of €350,000 in funding for projects under its 2024-25 grants scheme. This year, the scheme supported ...

Britain’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Stg £750,000 for a data breach last year in which the ...

Law firm Arthur Cox LLP has won the main prize at Chambers Ireland’s Sustainable Business Impact (SBI) Awards 2024, which took place last night (Wednesday 25 September) in Dublin. The awards highlight ...

Lawyers at Matheson have welcomed the legal certainty provided by a recent High Court judgment that overruled a decision by the Tax Appeals Commission (TAC). In Arlum Limited v Revenue Commissioners, ...

The European Commission has opened infringement proceedings against Ireland for failing to transpose certain provisions of a directive on restructuring and insolvency into Irish law. The directive ...

The Smyth/McAreavey case has important implications for how we think about privacy rights – and indeed rights more broadly in this jurisdiction – and what repercussions should flow from breaches of ...

The EU’s Court of Justice (CJEU) has recently highlighted the importance for member states of upholding the principle of judicial independence. In its 27 February 2018 judgment in Case C-64/16 ...

Under the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010, some cohabitating couples now have legal rights in relation to their cohabitating partner. This includes a right ...

The Law Society of England and Wales has warned that solicitors in the jurisdiction could be made bankrupt without proper oversight or scrutiny if the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is allowed ...

An EU court has dismissed a challenge to EU restrictions on the provision of legal services to Russia that were introduced after the invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The measures taken, which apply to ...

The Law Society is committed to helping members cast their ballot and offers the following support during business hours until polling closes at 5pm on 17 October: ...

Official statistics show that recorded crimes linked to fraud and burglary rose in the year to the end of June 2024, but there were falls in the number of homicides and sexual offences. The Central ...