The Department of Justice has received a record allocation of €3.9 billion for next year in Budget 2025. Current spending of €3.6 billion represents an increase of 6.4% compared with 2024, while the ...

A judge of the Court of the Justice of the EU (CJEU) will speak at a DCU Brexit Institute seminar next month. A keynote speech by Judge Savvas Papasavvas, (vice president of the EU General Court) at ...

A review of the effectiveness of legislation known as ‘Coco’s Law', introduced in 2021, has described the early indications as “positive”. The law criminalises the sharing of, or threatening to share, ...

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 ...

A new pay-related benefit that will give bigger payments to people with at least five years of PRSI contributions is to come into effect on 31 March next year. The relevant legislation, the Social ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...