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The US Supreme Court has delivered a significant victory to President Trump, ruling that lower federal courts lack the authority to impose nationwide injunctions blocking his executive orders. In a 6–3 decision on Friday, the court sided with the administration in a case concerning Mr Trump&rs

More than £348 million worth of illegal drugs went up in thick smoke in major cities across Myanmar as part of a day of action against drug abuse. Heroin, opium, speed, crystal meth, kratom, cannabis and ketamine were among the drugs put to the pyre as part of a ceremony that has raised eyebro

Buskers in the heart of Quebec City must now sing in French under new rules. Since May, two busy sites in Petit Champlain, the tourist hotspot of Quebec's capital city, have only allowed buskers to sing in French or play instrumental, CBC reports.

The Northern Ireland courts will be asked to rule on the definition of "sex" in equality law after the Equality Commission said there was "significant legal uncertainty" in the wake of a landmark UK Supreme Court ruling with implications for trans rights. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in April

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. A new special tribunal will investigate Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. Will it be effective?

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has launched a six-week call for views on its guidance for international data transfers under the UK GDPR. International data transfers underpin around 40 per cent of UK exports and 20 per cent of imports, enabling businesses to "access new markets,

The widow of a man who died unexpectedly of a brain haemorrhage in 2016 has lost a case against the providers of his life insurance seeking payment under the policy after a lord ordinary found that he had made qualifying misrepresentations when filling out the proposal form to obtain cover. Gillian

Tucked away in the gallery of the coffee lounge library in the Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow building lies a remarkable and often overlooked piece of the city’s legal and social history: the mortification boards. These black-painted wooden panels, with their gilt lettering and formal

Meta has secured a legal victory in a copyright case brought by a group of writers, including Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates, who accused the company of unlawfully using their work to train its artificial intelligence models. The authors had alleged that Meta violated copyright law by using th

Katherine Tresca has been promoted to the partnership at Carey Olson in Jersey. Ms Tresca, who is one of six new partners, has a practice that covers a broad area of Jersey corporate law, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions (both private and public, including via members' schemes of arrangement

Irish and American researchers have published the findings from a series of focus group discussions with senior UK judges about courtroom AI. Dr Brian Flanagan, the Maynooth University associate law professor who made waves with his research on the influence of Wikipedia on judicial decision-ma

A new, simplified procedure for notifying courts of the intention to use standard special measures when certain vulnerable witnesses are giving evidence comes into force today. In criminal cases where an indictment or complaint is served on or after this date, parties citing a vulnerable witness wil

A new study has raised serious concerns about the use of joint enterprise prosecutions, with researchers documenting the routine charging of individuals with murder despite minimal connection to the underlying crime. The report, published by the miscarriage of justice charity Appeal, is the result o

Terra Firma Chambers has announced that Aimee Cole, Francesca Glendinning and Graeme Milloy will join the stable upon calling to the bar today. Prior to calling, Ms Cole was a solicitor in private practice for over 10 years and has extensive experience in asylum, immigration and deportation appeals.