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Mrs Justice Siobhan Keegan has been appointed as Lady Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, becoming the first woman ever to hold the highest judicial position in Northern Ireland. She will be sworn in as successor to the incumbent Lord Chief Justice, Sir Declan Morgan, at the start of September 2021 &

A significant milestone will be reached for the Law Society of Scotland later this year when long-standing chief executive Lorna Jack steps down. The professional membership body for Scottish solicitors announced that Ms Jack will be retiring at the end of 2021. She has been in post for almost 13 ye

A barristers' set has changed its name due to links between its eponym and the slave trade. Hardwicke Chambers has changed its name to Gatehouse Chambers having discovered eighteenth century lord chancellor Lord Hardwicke's links with slavery last year.

The nature and scale of hate crime in Scotland are not fully understood by Police Scotland, according to a watchdog's report. The HM Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland (HMICS) Thematic Inspection of Hate Crime report found that a lack of training, limitations of IT systems and problems wi

The High Court in Northern Ireland has determined that the requirement for an applicant under the Gender Recognition Act 2004 to prove they are suffering from a medical “disorder” was incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights. The court held that a diagnosis of a disorder

DAC Beachcroft (DACB) has rolled out a series of animations explaining the insurance claims litigation process to clients in Scotland. The short animations, each lasting 60-90 seconds, discuss the key stages that a litigated insurance claim can pass through from start to finish, what insurers' custo

Polish human rights chief Adam Bodnar has been ordered to leave his post by the country's top court. Mr Bodnar, widely regarded as a nuisance to Poland's authoritarian ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, was appointed as Commissioner for Human Rights with the support of opposition parties in 2015.

The UN's human rights chief has urged Westminster politicians to amend a controversial bill which would protect some British soldiers from prosecution for suspected war crimes overseas. The Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill is reaching its final stages in the legislative proc

All but one of President Joe Biden's first judicial nominees are women or from ethnic minorities, in line with his commitment to diversify the bench. Mr Biden yesterday unveiled 11 nominees for the Federal Circuit, the District Court and the Superior Court for the District of Columbia, of whom nine

Dr Sandra Duffy comments on the High Court's ruling in AB v Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, the first case funded by the Good Law Project's Trans Defence Fund. In the case of AB v Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, heard before the High Court of England and Wales (Family Division), a challenge was ma

Any changes to the Human Rights Act 1998 could "significantly undermine Northern Ireland's unique constitutional settlement", The Bar of Northern Ireland has said. In its submission to the UK government's review of the law, it said it "would not support any amendments to the HRA as part of this revi

The president of the Law Society of England and Wales is stepping aside less than halfway through his one-year term due to the re-emergence of allegations of misconduct, which he denies. The High Court in London ruled that the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) was wrong to dismiss a complaint b

One of the UK's largest holiday park operators has been widely condemned after blacklisting common Irish surnames as part of an unlawful discriminatory booking policy targeting Gypsies and Travellers. Pontins, owned by Britannia Jinky Jersey Limited, has now signed a legally binding agreement with t

A former Syrian official has been convicted in Germany of being an accomplice to crimes against humanity in an unprecedented case. Eyad al-Gharib, 44, was one of two former Syrian intelligence officers charged by German prosecutors last year under the principle of universal jurisdiction. The other w

DAC Beachcroft (DACB) is automating the identification and verification part of its new client acceptance process through the use of an app. The new app is being piloted in the firm's eight offices in England and Wales but will subsequently be rolled out to its offices across the remainder of the UK