Georgia will ban paid-for commercial surrogacy from 1 January, 2024. Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said this week (12 June) that paid-for commercial surrogacy will now only be permitted for ...

The Law Society’s annual human-rights lecture will be broadcast on Wednesday 11 September at 6pm via Zoom. This year’s lecture will be delivered by Professor Fionnula Ní Aoláin (pictured) and will ...

Free Legal Advice Centres (FLAC) has said that it is supporting the proposed ‘family’ amendment in the forthcoming referendums, but will not be supporting the proposal on ‘care’. The group, which ...

There have been calls on the Government to ratify a UN protocol on the prevention of torture, and to enact a bill covering places of detention. The calls came from the Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) ...

Loneliness and meaninglessness are constituent reasons for asking for euthanasia, a Dutch academic told the Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying today (26 September). Professor Theo Boer, a ...

The EU’s highest court has ruled that Ireland has failed to meet its obligations under an EU directive on the quality of drinking water. The action, taken by the European Commission, centred on the ...

British health secretary Wes Streeting has permanently banned puberty blockers for children in an emergency decision, saying that evidence of their safety “should have been established before they ...

Law firm A&L Goodbody (ALG) has announced a partnership with Harvey AI, which provides a generative artificial-intelligence (AI) platform designed for the legal profession. ALG has been using AI ...

The Supreme Court ruling in the case of Brigid Delaney v Personal Injury Assessment Board, the Judicial Council, Ireland and the Attorney General (9 April) confirms that an appeal against compensation ...

Legislation that clears the way for rules on the use of e-scooters on public roads has been signed into law by President Higgins. The new law, which is aimed at modernising Ireland’s regulatory system ...

The Government has approved the drafting of legislation to set up a new Building Standards Regulatory Authority. Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien said that the move would improve compliance and ...

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, ...