People should have some say over the results that pop up when they conduct a vanity search online.

Legal experts have warned that gardaí could have breached two major planks of the law by recording phone calls to and from Garda stations.

Major changes in the way gardaí carry out interrogations will have to be adopted after the Supreme Court said suspects should be allowed access to solicitors before they are questioned.

The complications the internet poses for defamation laws and people’s privacy have been laid bare at a conference in University College Cork.

The virgin territory of defamation law on the internet and the interpretation of privacy rights are set to be discussed at a conference in Cork next week.

The 2006 bill goes too far in dealing with press invasions and fails to deal with other important aspects, writes Eoin O’Dell

The committee responsible for teasing out whether the country’s copyright laws impede innovation, has asked stakeholders to consider a series of options for reforming the sector.

Tuesday’s announcement by Taoiseach Enda Kenny that a referendum will be held on the EU’s fiscal compact had hardly concluded before suggestions were made that we should use the threat of a “no” vote to secure credit write-offs or, at the very least, reduced terms for some of the vast debt foisted on Ireland.

Chief Justice John Murray is widely regarded as having been a safe pair of hands. But as he nears the end of his term, he is mired in pay controversy, writes Michael Clifford

TRAINEE solicitors began studying in Cork yesterday in the Law Society’s first law school outside Dublin.